The great eclipse hunt

We are off at 8:30 for the great eclipse hunt of 2012 and headed for Keystone Lake State Park near Tulsa, OK.  The eclipse is an annular on May 20.  We plan to stay at Sumner Lake State Park new Fort Sumner, OK and do some geocaching in Texas counties near Copper Breaks State Park and Palo Dura Canyon State Park.

We spied another camper outside of Rolla headed west and stopped on an on ramp and had a tow vehicle like ours.  We met up with them at Love's near Joplin.  He was a nice guy (Rich) from Indiana and had stopped because they had some problems with their cat.

Hardy realized that he had no way to play the I Pod through the radio and needs to move the FM transmitter to the truck.

We stopped for lunch of ham sandwiches at a Missouri rest area near mile post 51.  Everything looked ship shape except our air conditioner is filthy and we may also need to clean the back of the refrigerator. We stopped for ice cream at McDonalds and had Blue Bonnet ice cream cones.  They were very large and very good!  We went through the toll which has increased in price since a couple of weeks ago...must be summer.

We arrived at Site 68 on Lake Keystone State Park and got set up and then walked to the office to pay the $18 for water and electricity.  These were nice concrete pads overlooking the lake and there were only two or three campers that we can see.  We had dinner of chicken and noodles and Hardy had his Shiner Bock.  There is a high haze but otherwise it is clear and the temp is 77.  We picked up a Keystone Lake geocache in a five gallon bucket near the entrance to the park.

Resident Ducks

These two little guys (girl and guy) came to visit us while we were getting ready for dinner.  They were making their way from camper to camper and doing a little begging along the way.  The only thing I had to give them was some Cheerios and boy did they like them.  They hung around our camper for 15 minutes or so and then went on to the camper parked across from us to see what they could find to eat over there.  I don't think they got fed at that camp ground.