Oklahoma, Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plain...

St Joseph Missouri  to  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma   385 miles

Day 46

Jim wasn't too thrilled with disconnecting in the mud this morning.  So much rain yesterday.  Beacon RV Park, was down in a gully between a commercial and residential area.  Don't know how it got a 5 star rating, it didn't look like a 5 star.  But, it did have a nice laundry, a storm shelter, trees, grass  and a kick-ass WIFI. 

Leaving Beacon RV Park in St. Joseph Mo.

Looking at the map and weather channel, we decided to head south (to get WARM!) and continue on to Oklahoma City.  We drove all day in gorgeous weather down I35 arriving at 4:30.  It was warm and muggy...yay! 

Hard to believe that just 24 hours earlier all Hell was breaking loose here with the tornadoes.  This evening was much nicer!  Although, the TV news kept breaking in and warning that there could be some severe storms and tornadoes...Something that the did not anticipate this morning when we decided to head this way.  Part of that decision was also based on the fact that we really do not like taking I70 through Missouri, especially the St. Louis area.  No big cities today, not even OK City, we are just a tad north and east of the downtown. 

Tonight we hopped in the Jeep to drive by the the areas on the news last night that were destroyed by one of the tornadoes.  Really amazing how so many buildings can be completely ruined and right across the street everything is perfect.  We also noticed that the KOA Campground is at the same exit that the Love's truck stop that was on the news is located.  We stay at so many KOA's....we were wondering if we'd made it down here yesterday if we'd have been there.  Man...now THAT would have made for an interesting blog entry!

We are in a gorgeous RV park, that we wish we'd chosen when we visited here  last year .  This Twin Fountains RV Resort is beeyooteeful!  All level concrete pads (somehow Jim got it to be not level...but we won't go into that) great free WIFI, cable, pretty grounds, grass, trees, in a good location and reasonably priced.  The only slightly negative I can see is that some of the sites are close to the highway, most are not. 

Nice, roomy and level sites at Twin Fountains

He's  ready to leave, I'm getting 'the look'

Tomorrow's forecast is threatening.  They are saying that the weather may be a carbon copy of Monday's storms.  We had planned on staying an extra day and seeing a couple of things that we missed last year, OK City  has plenty of things of things to see and do.  One thing that we do NOT want to see is a towering super cell with a funnel dropping out of it!  We saw some of the tornado chasers getting ready for tomorrow and that was enough.  Hurricanes?  Bring 'em on, but tornadoes scare the bejesus outta us!

So...on the agenda for tomorrow?  East.