Another Moving Day

We packed up and left Crowder Point at 9:00 a.m., anticipating a reasonably early arrival at our next campsite at Shoal Creek RV Park near Joplin. By the time we made our usual walk-around stops and hit a grocery store, it was after 1 p.m. by the time we pulled into the campground.

Shoal Creek is an Escapees 50% campground, which means we are paying $20 a night instead of the usual charge of almost $40 a night. We drove to our assigned pull-thru and got set up. Then I noticed that we had a problem with the electricity. The only thing with power was the a/c. Strange. Ken remembered that he had seen a way to use our multimeter to test 50 amp power. Only one of the two legs of the 50 amp circuit was working. We decided that we really wanted 50 amps to run the a/c and other stuff, but we plugged into the 30 amp temporarily to eat lunch.

The office assigned us to another site. Evidently they've had electrical problems since the tornadoes and will probably need to replace the circuit breaker for the leg that wasn't working. We folded back up and moved to site #72. It's definitely a hassle to move, but we have learned something new. From now on, we'll test the electricity before setting up in a site. We've always done this with 30 amp connections, since we have an inexpensive tester for 30 amps, but we haven't really known how to test 50 amp connections.

Shoal Creek RV Park and Campground is located on Shoal Creek--and right next to a very busy divided highway. The RV sites have nice long, level cement pads. The layout isn't our favorite. There are no trees, so it's pretty much like a parking lot. However, the sites are large and well angled. There's a fishing lake and a tenting area.

We waited until the sun was nearly down before going for our evening walk.

These geese have half-grown goslings. They have an artificial island on the lake.

The tenting area on the creek is known as "Area 51." We were actually pleased to find birds and frogs and flowers along our walk. This morning we saw the bright orange flash of an oriole. Tonight we saw a killdeer running along near our site.

The owner says that nearly 90% of the folks in RVs here are working on the tornado cleanup. Here's one of our neighbors.

Of course, since this is a campground, we can hear the nearby train whistles, and there's also highway noise, but this will be a convenient place to spend a couple of nights and visit the Carver National Monument.