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 4/2/2023 to 4/5/2023 First state park outside of Texas.  Hard carved plaque made and given to us by Karen, the ranger who escorted us to our site:       There are several differences between this Oklahoma state park and the Texas parks: We stopped by the office and the ranger had no way to know what site we were in. We had to look up our reservation to find it. They don’t give stickers to put on your RV window or car window. They don’t charge for day use. The ranger gave us directions to get to our site, but took pity on us and gave us an escort, which helped a lot. Apparently, it’s rare to have people come who haven’t been here before. The bathroom or “comfort station” is pretty far away from the campsites. I used to make fun of people who would drive to the bathroom, but not anymore. Also, the dumpsters are about 2 miles away, unlike within easy walking distance at all the Texas parks. Absolutely NO trash cans, not even in the bathroom. Surprisingly litt...

3/27/2023 to 4/2/2023 First time we've been to this state park - which will be true from now one. Each park will be new to us. This is also the last park in Texas before moving into Oklahoma. Has a large lake, but we weren't able to even get in the water.  Too much wind and rain. Our campsite had a view of the lake, but it wasn't near the water.  Transporting our paddle boards and our new kayak on the CRV would have been a bit time consuming. We ended up making a lot of trips into Denison and Sherman Texas. We went to Denison to pick up mail (and the kayak) at the post office, to get groceries, and also to meet a mobile notary and sign our part of the paperwork for closing on our Santee house. My iPad pretty much died and I decided to get a computer so I could become a blogger. Went to Best Buy in Sherman, Tx to buy the computer and then went back twice for help with it. We did get in a lot of hiking and some electric bike riding. Also did laundry with our portable washing ...