Woke up early to the alarm, knowing that while the trip was relatively
short, the errands and stops we had to make would make it a long day,
and sure enough, it did. First stop, breakfast at Burger King, next
stop, Runnings Farm and Fleet, third stop, Walmart, where I filled up
the RV, the horse trailer and BOTH portable barrels, as the only water
at the CCC camp at the Little MO Grasslands National Forest was a single
hand pump and we planned on staying a week, so we would likely need it
all, but I accidentally hooked up the water to the black water flush
intake for a while, and by the time I noticed it, the black tank was
practically full. Fortunately, at breakfast I noticed that the Cenex
gas station next door had an RV dump, so on our way out of town, we
stopped there, both to dump and to top off my fuel tank. Unfortunately,
Hubby forgot to get gas for the generators, an oversight he didn't
notice until we arrived at the CCC camp, 15 miles from the nearest gas
station. We still had enough for the night, though, and once we got
settled in, we ran the generator long enough to charge the batteries
just fine. The CCC camp is only about a mile off the main highway, 85,
but far enough away you can't hear a thing, but from where we parked
(site 4), we can see the road as it crosses the Little Missouri River.
Across the river is the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, where we plan
to ride once or possibly twice while we're here. The views all round us
are quite spectacular. Two of the three loops allow horses. The
containment strategy is pipe hitching posts parallel to one another,
making it possible to create decent-sized corrals when you put a couple
of strands of rope on each end. Loop A has hitching posts at most of the
sites, while Loop C seemed to have them all in tandem at one end of the
loop. None of the trees were really suitable for a highline, so we
opted to put rope between a couple of the rails and create a corral, one
for each horse. Meanwhile, they grazed contentedly on their anchors.
Clio had been suffering from weight loss for a while (she still isn't
thrilled about the hay she's being forced to eat when not on grass,
though this last batch seems to be a bit more appealing to her), but now
she's started to fill out nicely, no doubt because of all the natural
grazing she's been doing. In the early evening, it started to rain, and
we had a deluge that lasted for more than 4 hours. At one point, when
we realized it wasn't going away any time soon, we decided to put the
rain sheets on the horses for the night, so we donned our ponchos (and
me my Carlsbad Caverns miner's hat with flashlight) and headed out,
getting them all wrapped up in no time. We also put buckets along the
awning and gutters to catch as much rain as possible, to supplement our
already pretty abundant supply of water, just in case. Once we got back
in and dried off, it wasn't long before bed was calling!
Woke up early to the alarm, knowing that while the trip was relatively
short, the errands and stops we had to make would make it a long day,
and sure enough, it did. First stop, breakfast at Burger King, next
stop, Runnings Farm and Fleet, third stop, Walmart, where I filled up
the RV, the horse trailer and BOTH portable barrels, as the only water
at the CCC camp at the Little MO Grasslands National Forest was a single
hand pump and we planned on staying a week, so we would likely need it
all, but I accidentally hooked up the water to the black water flush
intake for a while, and by the time I noticed it, the black tank was
practically full. Fortunately, at breakfast I noticed that the Cenex
gas station next door had an RV dump, so on our way out of town, we
stopped there, both to dump and to top off my fuel tank. Unfortunately,
Hubby forgot to get gas for the generators, an oversight he didn't
notice until we arrived at the CCC camp, 15 miles from the nearest gas
station. We still had enough for the night, though, and once we got
settled in, we ran the generator long enough to charge the batteries
just fine. The CCC camp is only about a mile off the main highway, 85,
but far enough away you can't hear a thing, but from where we parked
(site 4), we can see the road as it crosses the Little Missouri River.
Across the river is the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, where we plan
to ride once or possibly twice while we're here. The views all round us
are quite spectacular. Two of the three loops allow horses. The
containment strategy is pipe hitching posts parallel to one another,
making it possible to create decent-sized corrals when you put a couple
of strands of rope on each end. Loop A has hitching posts at most of the
sites, while Loop C seemed to have them all in tandem at one end of the
loop. None of the trees were really suitable for a highline, so we
opted to put rope between a couple of the rails and create a corral, one
for each horse. Meanwhile, they grazed contentedly on their anchors.
Clio had been suffering from weight loss for a while (she still isn't
thrilled about the hay she's being forced to eat when not on grass,
though this last batch seems to be a bit more appealing to her), but now
she's started to fill out nicely, no doubt because of all the natural
grazing she's been doing. In the early evening, it started to rain, and
we had a deluge that lasted for more than 4 hours. At one point, when
we realized it wasn't going away any time soon, we decided to put the
rain sheets on the horses for the night, so we donned our ponchos (and
me my Carlsbad Caverns miner's hat with flashlight) and headed out,
getting them all wrapped up in no time. We also put buckets along the
awning and gutters to catch as much rain as possible, to supplement our
already pretty abundant supply of water, just in case. Once we got back
in and dried off, it wasn't long before bed was calling!
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