Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 - Travel Day to Cedar Lake, Ouachita National Forest, OK

Despite not bothering to set the alarm because it was such a short trip today, we were up fairly early, had some oatmeal for breakfast, packed up, stopped at the dump, and had a leisurely drive to Heavener, Oklahoma, where we stopped at Marvins supermarket for groceries, and the feed store for some hay for the horses (they had nice bales, although with wire, something we only ever see in Oklahoma for some reason), then arrived at camp aby 1:30. The camp hostess wasn't much help, but we met her husband up in camp and he was quite helpful. We had to park for a few minutes while they were taking down a tree in loop F, but meanwhile we checked out the other loops, and walked around loop F as well, and finally settled on a long site at the back end of the loop. Behind us was a pull-thru site off the road, but other than that we were pretty isolated. We quickly got the horses in their respective corrals, filled the RV with water, hooked up to electricity, discovered a cell phone signal good enough to run my hotspot (yeah!), and set up the satellite dish. That was the most challenging as there were a couple of branches in just the wrong position, but eventually Hubby found a spot where he could get a good enough signal, at least for the time being. By the time that was resolved, and the horses were fed and blanketed for the night, it was getting dark, and we were ready to settle down!