AR, OK, TX, NM

It is June and time to head west! This time it is a back country drive along highway 70 through southwest Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The first night stay at the Red River Ranch near Thackerville, OK was uneventful. The drive was nice among the green countryside filled with wildflowers in shades of yellow, red, purple and white. The herd of camels was a surprise. The campground was a disappointment in need of repair and maintenance in the middle of nowhere.

The second day ended with a real treat at a Coast 2 Coast campground, Roaring Springs Ranch Club near Roaring Springs, Texas. We found a nice camping site alone on the top of a mesa with quite a view.

The travel this year is taking place in the Roadtrek due to the high price of gasoline. The highest paid in Texas was 3.44 / gallon. My new quad rides along with Leon's on the new trailer which also has room for the bikes.

We were surprised to find such a lush green campground full of wildflowers, a golf course, a fishing pond, and 750 acres over which we could ride the quads. So ride we did! There is also a small bubbling spring and some rocks where the Indians used to grind corn.

The third day we meandered along the back roads for 368 more miles in wind and more wind and more wind gusting at 40 mph much of the time. We spent the night at Hidden Valley campground in Tijeras, NM, just outside Albuquerque. Here we don't even have a picnic table, just a pull thru spot and electricity which will suffice for the night.