Camp Rhodes
"It's easy, just go through town and take a left after the wheat field, then you take a right."
Quilt - "Mom, they could take a right at the gas station and then..."
Susan - Thanks, could you give me the number for the camp?
Sure, it's ...
Ring ... Ring ... Sorry that number has been changed to ...
Ring ... Ring ... The directions to the camp? Well you go through town and past the wheat fields for a while ... let me give you to the camp director, she knows how to get there
You go straight through town on 64 West, about 5 minutes after the last street light in Enid, take a left on Imo Road, then a right on Rupe, go a mile or two and the camp is on the right at the bottom of a hill, it has a large gate with a cattle guard. If you go over a bridge, you have gone too far.
The day before the face to face, the road stretched between fields of corn and sunflowers with an occasional cluster of buildings or a far off silo rising to break up the sky. It took Lynn and I a few fields to identify the sunflowers as they were facing away from us and neither of us had ever seen so many.
Nine hours after we left Denver International Airport we drove up to Kansas' house. The door opened before our headlights dimmed and Raisin, a black lab, bounded out to welcome us, followed by Jack and Vicki (Kansas) who greeted us with open arms.
In the morning we drove to Enid and followed the road through town.
"How come we're no longer on 64 West?" I asked just as we got to the last stop light.
Three minutes later we made a U-turn in the next town and drove back about 2-1/2 minutes to Imo Road.
Rupe turned into a dirt road and the gate on the right had tall grass behind it.
"Is this the bridge which we cross over if we went too far?" asked Lynn when we crossed a couple of planks.
"We haven't gone but a couple hundred yards, they had said a mile or two."
No u-turn here, the narrow road had ditches on both sides. But we did turn around and then we saw the cattle guard, on our right now, with a breast cancer stamp poster, we were there.
Dee (Deeintex) and Bill showed up two hours later than expected.
They had followed 64 West and ended up...hmm... no one knew.
Barb showed up with a cast on her foot which she had broken the day before.
Vicki (Kansas) and Sharon arrived in time for dinner - they had no problem finding the camp, after all, Vicki was born in Oklahoma!
And in the morning he made a glorious breakfast of eggs, tacos, hash browns...
We all trouped out to the bath house at staggered times and though there were short showers, we did find one that was for adults. But we never did find the toilets for adults. First glance at the narrow stalls had us worried that we would get stuck and when we got down to where the seats were, we nearly were!
Lunch was under a tree with the Enid News & Eagle photographer snagging pictures of us.
In the afternoon we went to the Great Salt Lake State Park.
The lake is solid but when you drive up to it, it looks liquid.
Hot, parching wind blows across the lake and salt sticks to your skin.
First you dig a hole.
Then you look in it.
Then you get a closer look.
When you hit sludgy red water, you scoop out the water and pour it over the "dirt" to uncover the crystals. We had forgotten to bring a scoop but fortunately someone had left one.
The crystals are beautiful. They are clear with some of the red dirt imbeded in them.
We all carted a couple of inches of reddish salt back into the cars.
By evening Lynn had had it with the heat. Airconditioned Denver has ruined her!
We went out to eat "native" - chicken fried steak.
In the morning we went to Marcia's house for a barbeque and Lynn tried to cool off.
We all ate hubby's (willow's) cookin'
in the backyard
Too soon Barb was off with Dee and Bill for the airport and Vickie left with Sharon to head back for Kansas
Marcia's cat tried to get to bcforum
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The day after the face to face, the road Lynn and I were on stretched between fields of corn and sunflowers with an occasional cluster of buildings or a far off silo rising to break up the sky. This time the sunflowers faced us.
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