Lake Murray, OK

On Monday, 7/6, we headed up north (all of 75 miles) to Lake Murray, OK to spend a few days.  Still hot up here but at least we are by a lake.

Here are a few pictures around our campsite.

This picture is the lake from the back of our site.

This is the front where the boat ramp is.

We had some 'friends' visit us every day!

Our friends, Dave and Nancy, came up for the day on Wednesday.  They brought up lunch and we ate at the picnic table and then sat out back and visited.

Later they drove us around some of the areas around the lake.

This is the Tucker Tower that was built by the WPA in during the 1930's and was originally planned to be used as a retreat for the OK governors.  That never panned out so it was a museum and is now a nature center.

Not sure what this was.

This is a rock that people swim out to and then sunbathe.  It's NOT something that Judy and I did!!

We had some campers come into the site next to us.  There were a couple of families.  They had a trailer, a tent, a seadoo and a pontoon boat.  

It wasn't a big deal but we do wish he would have pulled his truncks up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Friday it was time to leave so we backed the truck up and started to lower the trailer onto the hitch on the truck.  Unfortunately one jack would not move.

So we called "the guy" to take a look at it.  He wanted to remove our jack so he used his bottle jack to raise our trailer.

He worked at it for a long time and was pulling on our jack to remove it.  As a result, the trailer moved sideways and the other trailer jack landed on our shovel (that we taken out of our storage unit so he could work in there).

Fortunately, it did not hit the truck rails as you can see in this picture.

And it moved just enough so that the trailer hitch dropped between the truck hitch and the side of the truck.

This next picture shows where the trailer hitch came to rest.

Anyway, he jacked the trailer back up with his bottle jack and then went back to their shop to look for parts.  In the meantime I told Judy and if he can't fixt it, we are going right up to Chanute, KS where our trailer was originally made and have them fix or replace the jack.

The 'guy' did come back but could not fix it so we got the trailer lowered onto the truck hitch and took off.  By now it was 7 PM so we drove to OK City and spent the night at a campground there and then drove to Chanute the next day.

On Monday I called the service center and they could get us in on Tuesday.  So we had both front jacks replaced, spent another night there and then came home on Wednesday.

We are now planning another trip to get out of the HEAT here in TX!!