Ponca City, OK

Monday April 30th

Well we were unable to locate my Mom's house and the consensus is that it had been torn down. Unless the streets have been renamed and we were looking in the wrong place, that appears to be the case.

We left for Ponca City, OK this morning and arrived at Big Chief RV Park between thunderstorms. On the driveway into the park we passed the owner at the side of the driveway digging a trench to try to drain the standing water off the drive. We were lead to our site that appeared to be a swamp in the middle of a hobo camp. The areas between the sites were underwater and the crowned gravel sites were in varying degrees of flooding.


This wouldn't have been so bad but all the utilities were in the middle of that area. What could have been a good feature, the large spacing between site, just made the distance to the hookup's that much further away and deeper underwater. Between storms it did drain a little bit as you can see in the picture it has gone down some. You can also see some of the junk that's scattered around. That stuff next to the motorhome was there when we arrived! My cousin, Marilyn was excited to hear we had arrived and we met her for a late breakfast downtown. We had a great visit with her and also saw her dad for a short visit. She took us out for dinner to a great steak house where we met more of the family, her daughter Jamie and husband Sammy, their son and Sammy's dad, Sam. The dinner was fantastic. It was agreat place and Marilyn picked up the tab! Thanks Marilyn for a triffic visit.

We left on Saturday, heading down the Oklahoma panhandle toward Guymon, OK where we planned to spend the night in the city park.