Ponca State Park - Missouri River Outdoor Expo

Finally getting the opportunity to get caught up here.  We attended the Missouri River Ourdoor Expo while camping at Ponca State Park September 18th to the 20th...  This Expo was pretty incredible, its amazing what this little state park can turn into during one of these.  The camping areas are far enough away from the main attractions that they still remain calm and peaceful but a good majority of the park is transformed into vendors, booths, displays, petting zoos, archery and rifle shooting, dutch oven cooking and boat rides etc...  Lots of COOL and interesting things.  I expect there was somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 people through the expo during this weekend.  Here is the link for this years expo.  See for yourself what goes on, we are already reserved for the third weekend of September next year and I believe all sites are booked...

We camped with the Johnsons and we always enjoy that, the Huskers lost to VA Tech so that wasnt so great and I had a electric window go out on the Ford and had to run around every Saturday morning but.  None the less I think everyone had a good time, at least I got a couple of smiles out of the girls...

Until next time, safe travels...  BRC

Yankton SD - Chief White Crane

We had a great time over Labor Day catching up with all my MOM's side of the family.  Chief White Crane campground is AWESOME.  You can see Bradley's Campsite Review for more specifics on the campsite itself.  Not a lot of dialogue here but I wanted to get some pictures out to share.

Until Next Time - Safe Travels...  B

Alyssa and Grandpa Bob

Park Sign

Panorama of our site from the West

Gavins Point Dam

Checking things out just as the fog is lifting

RnR

Me and my better half

HUSKERS WIN - At the bar with family watching the Huskers (Good Times)

Here we all are, we all had a great time

TRI-CLEM plus Uncle Gordon

A COUPLE notes of interest...

I haden't posted about our trip to Big Lake in July yet because I was still bent about losing the camera and all the great pics from the trip... WELL, low and behold the camera was found and its really quite remarkable that it was. Long story short I walked into the woods off the beat and path to relieve myself while we were fishing and it must have fell out of my pocket. Well, a 12 year boy found it and he and his family went out of the way to contact me and arange its return, return coordination is going on now and I am totally happy and surprised. There ARE still some honest people in this world.

SECONDLY, Congratulations to JUDY and DAVE, proud owners of a new HYBRID Travel Trailer, looking forward to spending some "Happy Camping" time with the both of you...

Safe Travels - Bc

CAMERA IS BACK...  A couple teasers for now...

Louisville State Rec Area

We made our first trip of the year to Louisville, we always like this park as its close to home and has a nice layout. The Thomas's camped next to us and we had visitors on Saturday, Rauerts and Travis and Mark stopped out. Sharing our camping makes it all that much more enjoyable. The Weather was a bit hot with the temp hitting 99 on Saturday and lots of scattered thunderstorms on Sunday. It made it a bit interesting getting packed up and out of there on time. Anyhow, enjoy the pics from our latest trip...

Two Smiles at the same time... :-)

Cool panaroma of our campsites

And about 90% Humidity...

Swimming was a good way to keep cool, and another smile...

Lots of action on the river as well...

SMORES anyone???

The Thomas Abode...

Yummies around the campfire...

Dont think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for a while...

Good times, good times...

Safe Travels until next time...

Happy 4th Everyone - God Bless the USA

This year we made our 4th of July trip to Branched Oak Rec Area outside of Lincoln. It was our first trip to this park and we'll be back for sure. We had a nice time there and the Johnsons were there and are still there as we speak and Barb and Tim came up on Saturday.

Although the weather was not the best it was actually better than being 105 in the shade and Sunday was the best day of all, we did get some swimming in before we left. This trip made me want to look into a small boat even more, so who knows what the future will bring.

It two weeks we are off to Big Lake in Missouri. We are meeting several friends from college there and are trying to revive an annual trip we did in the ninties with a bunch of WSC friends. We are really looking forward to it and Corey, Kim and Gaby are going with us.

Branched Oak Trip Pictures:

Swimming on Sunday

One of the best parts of camping.

Ever try to catch fireworks on a pocket digital camera?

Cheers...

Going FISHIN...

Mama caught the big one...

USA, USA, USA, USA....

Concentration...

Big DOG....

See you next time...

4th of July

Well, we are off to Branched Oak for Independence Day. We are looking forward to it because we've never been there before. Camper is in the driveway now, sanitized the H2O today for the first time this year, cleaned it up a bit. We'll be chomping at the bit by Thursday morning.

Thats one of the great things about having a camper, when you go to the "Cabin" for the weekend you never know where it will be parked. Post Trip Report next week...

Trip 17 - Fremont State Lakes

We made it back in one piece from Fremont this afternoon. We really had a fun time despite the weather not being the best, but at least it was dry during the day and everyone had a fun time. Pictures for now more dialogue later... (I'm Tired :-) )