St. Francois State Park, Missouri

We just spent the last 3 days camping close to home. 

This park is less than one hour away. 
We went with the Prewitt clan. They had one pop up and two Coachmen Catalina's and about 30 people. Kids and people everywhere.  It was a good time. 

We were able to get in a few miles riding our bikes. 

Carol had my work shirt quilt all finished and on the camper's  bed. It turned out great.

This park had river access close to the campground with a nice gravel/sand beach.

We had a couple rain showers over the 3 days but nothing that interfered with anything. We really had a good time. We are looking forward to our next trip, coming up soon!

McCullough get together

I'm glad Butch, Kathy and Michelle came in town. It was a good reason to get together. Of course we had a good time and good food. We have a great family!

Camping at Carlyle Lake

We are back at Carlyle Lake again, Dam West Campground. This new trailer continues to be great. So glad we made the leap to a bigger trailer. The weather is great so far except for the 30 MPH winds all day, but that's typical for Carlyle.
We are relaxing, bike riding and eating good. What more could we want.

Today is Tuesday and the campground is almost full. We have to leave Thursday, no room. To get reservations for Memorial weekend you have to book 6 months in advance.  

Today we tried out the inflatable kayak. We went to the beach with it because we weren't sure of how we would do. It worked out good, except we decided we were better off doing it alone instead of two in the boat. But it worked and it was all good.

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When we got back to the campsite we found a spot across the street that was open until Saturday. We were supposed to leave tomorrow. So we undid everything, hooked up and moved across the street. So now we have a couple more days here. 

Another beautiful day. Our first thing today was to go to Walmart so I could get some new underwear. I packed for a few days and we ended up staying longer.

Today we just messed around, rode bikes and relaxed. Ate good too! Just what I wanted to do.

We had a great time, on this trip. Enjoyed getting together with the Schleyhahn's, Lampey's, and the Snyder's. 

Too bad we had to leave, but we will be back soon.