We didn’t have much on the schedule today so we went exploring. We started by going again to the Country Kitchen in Kingston, about 20 miles north of the Oklahoma border. The food was terrific again.
From Kingston we drove west for about 25 miles until we came to a road to Lake Murray State Park south of Ardmore. We imagine this place must be gorgeous when all the hardwoods (and there are plenty of them) have leaves but we were a bit early for that. The lake is beautiful regardless of the state of the lake shore vegetation. Apparently, Lake Murray is fed by springs while every other lake we have seen in northern Texas is brown because they are fed by rivers with tall mud banks.
About three-quarters of the way around the park loop road, we came to the park visitor center and a structure called the Tucker Tower which was built originally as a house for a bigwig. If I was a bigwig, I would have been happy to live here because the view from the tower is superb. Peggy climbed most of the way up before balking at an old spiral staircase.
We drove into multiple campgrounds here and quite a few have full hookups for RVs. Maybe we will stay here if we ever return to tornado country again. We see many houses around here with bunkers built near them so the locals can take shelter when funnel clouds appear. Dolts in flimsy RVs are SOL when the weather gets violent.
We have run into some interesting folks here. This morning, we were chatting with our waitress and she found we were from California. Right away she asked if we had ever been on The Price Is Right on TV. When we said “no,” she said she always wanted to go to California to get on the show. Hmmmmmm. We also noted a local sign maker who’s business does not appear to be doing very well. We speculate that one of the reasons he is not prospering is that his sign over the shop states, in big letters, “Sings Made Here.” We didn’t have the heart to explain it to him.
We got a few photos along the way and at the visitor center. You can see them if you click here