City of the Rocks Redeux

We are on our way back to Kansas and decided to stop at the City of the Rocks State Park with the coach since we had descovered earlier that the sites were large enough for us.

When we arrived we were told that all of the sites were full and would have to dry camp until one opened up. Not to be denied that quickly, we decided to take a look at the sites and make sure. Much to our surprise, there was one site open and it was perfect for us, so we quickly occupied the site as it was first come first served! Talk about lucky! The office told us that it had been full for some time and people were dry camping trying to sneak in and get a site with electricity and water!

The park is quite busy now compared to what it was back in November when we last were here but it is quite peaceful and restful.

We took the opportunity while here to go Geocaching here in the park. Barbara shown above is at her first geocache since registering her name with geocaching.com. She is known as Cachegal and I am known as Canvasman! This is also her first cache with the new Garmin GPS that she got for her birthday. She wanted to have her own so she was not dependent on me. I think that there was a bit of competitive nature coming to the front on that! She wanted to have some pride of finding caches on her own. There are two caches here in the park and we found both.
(Truth be known, I found them both, but don't say anything to Barbara. OK?)
This is a telephoto shot of the campground from the site of the second geocache that we found. It is about a third of a mile from where we were.











This is the same shot without the telephoto element added. You can see the lovely setting that we are priviledged to be at today.











Our site was very long and open. Just the ticket for a relaxed stay here.














The far hill was where I took the telephoto shot from. We will have to come back again as this is really what RVing is all about!