Today we say so long to the great state of Missouri. Its time to move on in our trip west.
We were on the road around 10:30 this morning after settling our electric bill. As I mentioned before this is a Passport America park and we stayed here for half of the normal price but in this particular park we were responsible for the electric we used. We stayed here four nights, used our A/C off and on, ran the TV, radio, computers, fridge and freezer, I vacuumed and of course we used the lights. Our electric bill was $7.00. This made this Queen of Cheap very happy. So for $47.00 we got to spend four days in this area. Not bad, not bad at all. Again, if ever in Neosho, MO. I suggest you check out Stage Stop Campground. I really don’t think you’ll be sorry.
We had an easy run to our next stop in Kansas. Some of the scenery we saw as we rolled on down the highway.
We had clear roads until we got within a few miles of McConnell Air Force Base, our next stop. We just couldn’t figure out why people were lining the streets, sitting in lawn chairs, on blankets, on the trunks of cars and filling every parking lot we could see. It wasn’t until we got a little closer that we saw the electric signs showing the way to Air Show Parking. AHA,,,an Air Show. Figures we get here at the end of the day and miss it.
We got on base with no problems but missed a turn in order to check in for our site in the FamCamp. Traffic was so bad and towing 38 feet of house behind you didn’t make the task any easier. I finally got on the phone and called the office and asked if we could just go to the site and check in later as the traffic is so bad and we just want to get off the roads. They certainly could see our point as they could look out the window and see the tons of traffic clogging the roadways. They gave us our site number and we made our way to the FamCamp. Now we’ve been in FamCamps for nearly every branch of the service and most of them are more than satisfactory and Air Force does seem to have the best. However, this one must be the oldest FamCamp there is. It’s only ten sites, they are close together side by side and there isn’t full hookups. Just water and electric but a dump station is at the end of the row. We have been told that a new FamCamp is being built on the grounds of a golf course here that is no longer used. You can bet when its done that it will be state of the art and very nice because that’s just the way the Air Force flies. In the meantime we’re packed in here like sardines but in the long run it doesn’t matter because we’re either not here or in the house anyway.
I’m looking forward to hitting the Commissary because I’ve been using up things and the cupboards are about bare. No, not about, they are bare.
After dinner we were watching TV (we went to the Commissary to just get a few things in for a couple of days) when all of a sudden we heard this noise. Let me retype that,,,,we heard THIS NOISE! Bob turned the TV down and we listened. What in the world could that be???? Then it stopped. A little while later, we heard it again. We’re starting to panic, this is a new rig, is something wrong? Is it gonna blow? We just didn’t know where is very loud noise was coming from. Bob went outside but by the time he hit the ground it was gone. We just couldn’t figure it out. About twenty minutes later it was back. I ran outside and could hear it but couldn’t tell what it was but knew that it wasn’t coming from the rig. I went to one of our neighbors and asked if they heard this strange noise and they said they too were baffled and thought their rig was gonna blow. They soon figured out that it was the nighttime portion of the Air Show and that we were listening to the presentation of an F-16 after burn! We didn’t think to go through the paperwork that we received when we checked in. It seems the Air Show is going on all weekend and we’ll get to see it tomorrow after all.
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