Oklahoma Dreamin

So there we were headed down the road to Oklahoma. None of us had ever really been west of the Mississippi River and so for us this was an exciting adventure.

We did the trip so quickly that we never really saw much because most of the trip was at night. Tunica MS was so very pretty though. All the light from the casinos were very interesting.

When we arrived in Oklahoma the owners were all right there at the office and the first thing said to us was "Welcome Home". It felt like home. It felt comfortable.

The campground "Big Ceder RV" was way out in the middle of nowhere. It's about 30 miles to the nearest big store in any direction. It was surrounded by moutains like I had never really seen before. I was completely awestruck by the different animal life that was in this area. I even got to see a roadrunner one day on the way to the store.

Johnny, our son, made some new friends too. The kids in Oklahoma, or at least this area of it, were so well behaved and respectful that I trusted them. Johnny went swimming with his new friends one day and they told him to stay with the group because there were fish in the river that would eat him. He and I both thought they were joking until the campground owner told me to look up Gar. They are some scary looking fish let me tell you. I'll include a pic at the top of this post.

Our job here at the campground was simply to clean cabins after the people renting them had left. This took about 15 hours a week and for that we got our rent for free. Of course what we didn't know was that originally we were simply there to do the laundry from the cabins but the other work campers health began getting worse so we took over the cabins too. Then we were asked to take over cleaning the bathhouse and the laundry room as well. Which we did without issue and with no further compensation, a mistake I believe.



After a few months we began to make some friends in Big Cedar. Again another possible mistake. The people were very nice. We were very happy to have made their friendship. However, the campground owner's daughter used to be friends with one of the girls I made friends with and she got very jealous and angry. She began making comments to me about my work. She began being almost rude to me. I ignored it, again a mistake. About 2 weeks later we were told we were no longer to be needed. Again, the original deal was that even when things slowed down over the winter we would be staying for free and that was now changed.



However, due to concern for the owner who had just had heart surgery, we didn't put up a stink. We simply left and headed for our friends house in Massachusettes.