On the road for just 45 miles to Coffeyville. Followed the directions to the Buckeye Mobile & RV Park. The office was closed since it was Saturday, but we called the posted number on the office door and Tim came right over to help us. He told us we could pick our site, so we looked around at the available options and ended up choosing #31. This site is just round the corner from the office on the north side of the park. We like it because it is not on the main traffic road and we face trees and lawn. This site also has a little more room between campers than the lakeside sites. We got backed in and set up for our 3 month stay.
After we were settled, we headed out to explore the town and find a place to finish watching the
Nebraska/SDSU game. (We found we could not get very many channels at the campground with our antenna for the TV.) Not very many options in Coffeyville as it turns out, but we found Jack's Place, which was advertised as a sports bar. There were no cars out front, but the neon sign said OPEN, so we went in. The music was blasting VERY loud, the waitress said she had to turn it down from the night before. She did and then was very helpful in turning the channel on a couple of the TVs to the game. We watched the remainder of that game (sorry SDSU) and then drove downtown. There are several historical buildings there, most of them dealing with the Dalton Gang robberies of the bank here. We found a place called "Tavern on the Plaza" that was open, so went in for supper. A nice place with unique vintage decor and they had live dinner music, a guitarist/soloist that was performing with just the right amount of volume to be heard, but not drown out conversation. We had a nice meal there. We stopped and picked up some groceries at the Country Mart, looks like that will be our grocery store. Home and a walk around the campground.
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| Saturday morning mist on the lake |
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| He wanted to ride along - can anyone tell us what he is? |
Sunday - I got up and took an early morning walk up the street. The Coffeyville hospital is 4 blocks south of us. Their campus has a sidewalk (one of the few in town) on its perimeter that is marked for walking, two laps = 1 mile. I think I will use that often, the streets are busy to walk on.
Back and cleaned up for 10:00 Mass. Our parish here is Holy Family Church, a good size church with a 5:30 Saturday and 8:00 and 10:00 AM masses. The church was about 3/4 full, with a lot of families. There was a visiting priest from Missouri, so we did not yet meet our Pastor. The organist/pianist was also the cantor, she did a good job. They have a Catholic school and a convent here, so a good sized community.
After church we drove out to find where the Amazon facility is located. It is a big building, over
1 million square feet. It will take us 15-20 minutes to get there from our campground. We also saw the Big Chief campground which is advertised as just across the road from Amazon, it actually is down the road a block or more. This campground is very bare looking, no trees, but there were many campers there already and many sites yet available. We also drove by the city park campground and the Heritage RV Campground on the way back in to town and think we made the right decision with the Buckeye RV Park. Home to do laundry and book work. We grilled burgers for supper and went out for an evening walk. The evenings have been cooling off here, we can sleep with the windows open and it is very quiet, except for hearing a train now and then.
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| Our view looking forward |
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| Our patio at the Buckeye RV Park |
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