Day Twenty and Home!

Wichata Falls to Austin.  Had a rain last night in RV park which was really nice and cooled things down some.  This morning took a few pictures of this  park including their "doggie park" with multicolored hydrants.  Cute.  Now back in Austin and gave the Escape its first bath, and put it on its pad by the house.  It looks nice there and I have had a great time traveling almoast 5000 miles to pick it up and bring it back to Texas.  I am looking forward to more Escape Adventures, but maybe not so far away next time and hopefully with Kathy the whole way! 

Thanks for followimg my travel blog. Until next Escape Trip!

ESCAPE 19' IN ITS NEW HOME

Jay

Day Nineteen

Back in Texas!  Short drive today from Elk City OK to Wichita Falls TX.  After learning about the massares at Washita stopped at 2 casinos run by Native Americans and made some "reparations". Toured a little in Wichita Falls at a park and had a great steak dinner and read and relaxed tonight.  Tommorrow, its  home to Austin and the completion of my "Escape Journey"  Its been great fun and the trailer has worked wonderfully.  Only 2 problems were a bathroom door that quit shutting that I needed to adjust the catch and a blind that became serriously untensioned that I had to repair.  Not bad a tall for a 2500 mi;e journey from Canada to Texas!  I am looking forward to more travels in the near future. Will post final entry when home.

Day Eighteen

Battle of the Washita Ntional Historic Site

Dusk shot in Kansas

Drove into Oklahoma today.  Lss wind and more varied terain.  Getting hotter!  Temp showed 102 on car thrmometer. Wetern Oklahoma has lots of windmills now.  Ithink I saw hundreds.  Guess alongwith oil and gas the state has lots of wind poer as well.  Drove a little out of my way to visit Washata "battlefield" ( really a massacre site) where Custer attracked a peaceful Indian village and killed about 40 women and children.  In addition he lost an officer and 17 men and made no attempt to recover them.  It was apparrently the souce of maqjor friction between him and Benteen that persisted to the Little Bighorn battle.  Anyway it was interesteing to see the place that was important prelude to Custers last stand so many mies away.  Ended day in Elk City OK and tommorrow back  in Tx. Hurah!  Ill be home soon and looking forward to it.  But who turned on the heater?!

Day Seventeen

More adventures along the Oregon Trail.  Camped at Scotsbluff last night and then went to the visitor centor and hiked about 1/2  mile of the actual Oregon trail.  It was a moving experience to walk along the same still visible path those immigrants took  long ago to try and find a better life for themselves and their families. Today drove through far eastern Cxolorado ( just so I can add it to my travel map of states visited) and then into Western Kansas, where yes it is very flat and full of wheat.  I find a serene sense of beauty to this landscape as it seems like being a ship a sea.  Windy sea it was, howeve,r and you probably cant tell fromn the campsite photo in WaKeeney KS but wind gusts up to 40 mph today.  Tommorrow may make it into Oklahoma.

Day Sixteen

Traveled from Little Bighorn to Scotsbluff Nebraska today.  Starting to heat up as I come down south and decreasing elevation.  Today its 93 degrees here in Nebraska.  Time to try out the new airconditioned trailer! Stopped on the way at Oregon trail Wagon ruts site and Regester Cliff where immigrants chisiled their names into the sandstone on their way to Oregon.  Also stopped at Fort Laramie, a frontier fort on the Trail.   Finally stopped at Scotsbluff which was an important landmark on the trail.  Beautiful view from my RV campspot.  Tommorrow head furhter south and East possibly to Dodge City Kansas.

Day Fifteen

Spent the day at Little Bighorn Battlefield.  Toured museum, listened to ranger talk on battle itself, took a walking tour with a native American guide who gave a different perspective on things, and then drove the entire battlefield site and stopped at all the major sites.  I have a much clearer picture of what happened here  and together with the books I have read it completes the experience. This was a fascinating part of our history with all it's repercussions and I enjoyed finally making it here to see the actual battleground.  It was a fun day! Tommorrow start the long drive home to Texas

Day Fourteen

Long travel day from Pocatello ID to Little Bighorn Battlefield MT.  Drove by West Yellowstone and it was actively snowing and a light dusting of snow was on the trees and groun!.  It was lovely and I enjoyed it even more knowing how HOT it is already in Texas.  I am now camped on the closest RV park to the "Custer's Last Stand" battlefield.  This has long been a peculiar historic interest of mine and I have read several books about it both from the soldiers standpoint and the native American's.  Tommorrow I will tour the site itself and I am looking forward to it.  Tonight looking out over the battlefield area it is quite a pretty site.