Day 25 – The plan for the day was to travel to Ponca City, OK., a distance of 50 miles straight east – “no big deal.” We would arrive early at a pre-selected campground, establish camp, and hang out until the cyclists arrived. Nothing unusual, our usual routine.
Upon arrival we found our pre-selected campground was full and over-flowing and the same was true with the campground across the road and all campgrounds in the area. Ponca City is an oil town and a major pipeline was being constructed. Hence, all the campgrounds were filled with construction workers. In our search for campgrounds we wound up on the far west side of town. It is now late in the afternoon, the sun is scorching, we have not been able to perform our duty in finding accommodations and we haven’t been able to contact the cyclists. When finally making contact by cell-phone we understand they are on the east side of town and they are really on the west side of town. In reality they were not even as far as Ponca City. After much driving and phone calling we finally catch up with each other on the west side of Ponca City.
After a brief discussion, Carrie and Jerry being hot and tired, opted for a motel in town and we proceeded on to the next day’s destination, Osage Hills State Park, about 10 miles west of Bartlesville, OK.
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