September 1, 2012

Although I’m writing this on Saturday I will not be able to post it until Monday or Tuesday.  We left home Wednesday morning and drove to Fort Kearney SP and arrived about 2:00 or so.  It was kind of funny when we got to our campsite there was someone else’s name on it but the dates were for the holiday weekend.  After verifying we were at the correct site we set up camp.  Then we were waiting for the ranger to stop by but she never did.  When I finally caught with her and asked if we needed to let anyone know we arrived and that we had reservations she said no, we were good.  I thought it was strange that there was no check-in when there was no reservation identified on a list or the post.  Go figure.

We crossed the Platt several times on this trip, looks like it needs to be mowed.

Thursday morning we went to the state fair.  The new facility is very nice.  All of the buildings are well laid out and are much nicer facilities for the 4H and FFA exhibiters.  We ate sweet corn, cheese on a stick, pork chop on a stick, red velvet funnel cake, fresh squeezed lemonade and chocolate covered bacon.  We saw many different exhibits but it still does not hold a candle to the Minnesota state fair.  It is probably about ¼ the size.  The food venders alone in Minnesota could fill most of the midway at our fair.  Expected attendance is in the 350k range, I think Minnesota does a million.

Friday we moved to North Sterling SP near Sterling Colorado.  It features a 3000 acre irrigation lake but this year it looks to be a 2500 acre beach.  Only 1 boat ramp remains open and there are a few brave souls out there trying to us the lake but mostly just fishing and cruising around slowly.  We took a drive north of the park today and visited Peetz and Pardoni.  Peetz had a school, post office, 1 bar and gas available at the co-op.  Peetz is a pickers paradise, there is rusty junk in every yard.

Well it’s about time for the game to start.  We move to Chatfield SP Monday where there will be cell service available, here it is very limited.  We’ve gotten a few calls but all of them have dropped and when we had to use the internet last night we drove to Sterling to get service.

 

September 5, 2012

Just a breif note, we are at Chatfield SP about 15 minutes south of Terry and Glenda and will leave here Friday morning.  We'll be heading southwest to Kenosha Pass.  I'll try to catch up soon.