Great Family Time
This morning, Dick & Ken spent some time working on a wiring issue with the trailer, so I was able to take a longer shower than usual and relax with two cups of coffee 🙂
Luckily, the RV park has big cement pads and it wasn’t raining this morning, which made it somewhat easier to work on the trailer…easy for me to say huh?
There’s always something to fix on Stanley
We left the RV park a little after 11:00 am and met up with Ken’s cousins again for lunch and a final visit.
Mike picked out a great little place in downtown Woodward called Calito’s Cafe. Oh man did they have good food! My apple spinach salad was delightful….and I think Mike is beginning to believe the guys when they tell him I’m the salad queen….lol.
We enjoyed our visit very much, but it was getting pretty late so we finally had to say goodbye. We’re sure glad we got a chance to see Mike & Janice…..it had been way too long between visits. We know Mike’s business, On Point Land Surveying, will be a huge success!
Mike & Ken saying goodbye
We left Woodward at 1:30pm for our ride west, but first we wanted to take a detour north to visit a little (don’t blink or you’ll miss it) town called Fort Supply.
When I first met Ken in 1975 his mom was working at a hospital in Fort Supply. The facility was for the mentally ill, similar to the Napa Hospital we used to have in California. Ken’s mom worked in the kitchen and she always talked so fondly about her time in Fort Supply that I wanted to see it since it was only 10 miles away from Woodward.
As we approached the area, we could see the hospital and turned into the driveway in front of it. We had heard that the hospital might now be a prison, and sure enough, we were greeted with a gate and a sign indicating we were on prison grounds. Ken had to back the trailer onto the highway, luckily there isn’t alot of traffic going through Fort Supply.
Ken pointing out where his mom worked
As close as we could get to the old hospital
Although there’s not much to see in Fort Supply other than the former hospital/now prison, it does hold some interesting history. It used to be called Camp Supply and was a U.S. Army Post in 1868.  It was from Camp Supply that George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh U.S. Calvary south to the banks of the Washita River in the battle of the Washita.
Historical site in Fort Supply where Custer came in 1868
It only took a 10 minutes to see Fort Supply and while I’m glad my mother in law enjoyed her time there……I have to admit that I really don’t know why….other than the fact that it snows in Fort Supply and she loved the snow.
We hadn’t decided how far we wanted to go today, partly due to the late start and partly due to the rain that started to come down as soon as we took off from Woodward.
We headed towards Amarillo, TX and had rain and gray skies all the way. Dick captured the mood in his post “Afternoon Reflections”.
Once we got to Amarillo…..we just kept going. I think we were trying to out run the rain. We finally stopped once we got to New Mexico.
Goodnight from our muddy RV park in Tucumcari. Hoping for a less soggy day tomorrow.
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