“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower I’ve had several folks ask me on social media how we plan our trips. Since we are part-timers, we try to squeeze out as much as possible from our time off. I will say that my technique is probably overkill. I work through a lot of details that quite often we don’t use once we get to our destinations because we…
We’ve made it to the conclusion of a four-post arc of our Spring Break Trip (catch up on Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3). In this post we take on 14 hours on the road, take Patty the Trailer dry camping for the first time, and visit Fort Smith National Historic Site on our way back to Kansas City.
We left last time heading south from McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, Texas. The bad weather continued to plague us as we traveled further into Texas Hill Country. In this post, we stop at Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park on the way to San Antonio to explore and enjoy more of our Spring Break vacation.
We left you in our last post at Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma. The cold weather and rain was not very Spring Break like and we cancelled our second night at Chickasaw and decided to head South towards Texas, visited some Waco Mammoths, our favorite Texas fast food, and a little beaver on the way, and lucked into a wonderful spot near Austin.
Spring break! Oh what a trip. It was such a trip it’s going to take me a few posts to get through it all. We traveled through Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas on the longest trip we’ve taken in our own rig, Patty (our first trip in a rented trailer was the furthest). I hope you’ll read along about our 9-day, 1700+ mile search for paradise. Day 1 – 09 March 2019; Kansas City to Oklahoma City We set out…
Rocky Ford Campground is one of four campgrounds in Tuttle Creek State Park. It is below the dam of Tuttle Creek Lake and on the banks of a lake that is created from the backwater of the dam outlet and the spillway. RV Park’s website: https://ksoutdoors.com/State-Parks/Locations/Tuttle-Creek/Tuttle-Creek-Gallery/Rocky-Ford-Campground RV Park’s location: 39.246387, -96.581932 Stayed in the park during our trip Tuttle Creek State Park and Kansas State Football – EMAW! 1. Location. Rocky Ford Campground is about 15 minutes from…
We took a quick kid-free trip to Manhattan, KS to watch a Kansas State football game. We stayed at the Rocky Ford Campground in Tuttle Creek State Park. 14 September 2018 – Kansas City to Tuttle Creek State Park Once the kids got home from school and they got settled in with their grandparents, we hit the road for Manhattan, KS. Manhattan is about 2.5 hours west on I-70 from Kansas City. We got to Tuttle Creek State Park, checked-in,…
Over Labor Day 2018 weekend we took a trip to the Diamond State. We linked up with another great family and floated the Buffalo National River and then drove further into Arkansas to visit Hot Springs National Park. On the way home we popped into Pea Ridge National Military Park for a quick visit as well.
Crawford Lake State Park is a great state park in Kansas. It offers numerous recreational activities on the lake, a campground, a diner, and many other opportunities. We only stayed here one night to explore nearby Fort Scott National Historic Site.
Well that’s a mouthful of a title! After our shake out trip of Patty the trailer at Indian Cave State Park, we wanted to stretch out our range a bit more, but nothing crazy. So we found Fort Scott National Historic Site and George Washington Carver National Monument (and a bonus gem in Crawford Lake State Park) as some close spots to visit, build confidence with the trailer, and get some more of that Junior Ranger bling. 17 August 2018…