LAKE TEXOMA, TX AND LITTLE ROCK ARKANSAS

We took an Easter weekend break from Oklahoma City and joined some women for a campout on Lake Texoma with Wendy and Trudie. The other women were members of the Women’s Chorus in Dallas. Lake Texoma was formed in 1944 by placing a dam on the Red River on the border between Texas and Oklahoma. This created a 89,000 acre lake with two wildlife refuges, two state parks, and lots of other resorts and campgrounds. The lake is especially known for its great striper bass fishing (we caught one). We were on the Texas side in a small resort with only a few RV spaces but rental cabins for those without an RV. We got a space right on the lake.

Two of the women, Jude and Sue, brought their “party boat” and we all had a great time exploring the lake, fishing and swimming. They are interesting, adventurous people who have had fascinating experiences including canoeing the Yukon River from its source to the Bering Sea (over 2000 miles). One is a psychiatrist (formerly an anesthesiologist) and the other is a surgical nurse. Great meals were pooled together, even a great Easter morning brunch with mimosas.

Back in Oklahoma City, we were able to take advantage of the excellent medical facilities to get some medical help for Lovern’s recurring UTI problems and finally seem to have a handle it. This was thanks to Doctor Wendy who was able to get Lovern into an urologist right away.

The medical problems have caused delays and changes to our carefully planned itinerary but that is one of the advantages to RV travel. We finally left Oklahoma after two weeks and are enjoying the lush greenness of Arkansas. Trees as far as you can see. We can see why people are retiring here. The tornadoes would keep us from living here though. In fact, an adjuster for FEMA is parked next to us in this park and is helping people get trailers who were wiped out by a couple of hurricanes a few weeks ago. In nearby Hope are 30,000 trailers that were never allocated to New Orleans hurricane victims. They are sitting in storage with mounting costs to taxpayers.

The Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock was very impressive. There are over 76.8 million official document, 1.85 million photographs, and 75,000 museum artifacts. A timeline displayed highlights and world events during his tenure focusing on his major initiatives such as “Balancing the Budget”, “Building a Global Community”, “Protecting the Earth”. These tended to depress us though, knowing that the Bush Administration has negated all of them. The life-size replicas of the President’s cabinet room and the Oval Office were very well done.