In today’s world, it is sometimes easy to loose faith in ones fellow man, woman, child, etc. And to be honest, I was starting to wonder if our idea of traveling so we could meet all kinds of different people was only a pipe dream. At campgrounds, we have met a few nice people, but the majority of people have been very stand-off’ish. We have been stared at, had our picture taken by people doing ‘drive-bys’ and sometimes totally ignored (Darrin, the optimist says they must not want to intrude).
Then we stumbled into, completely on a fluke, a small state park in northern Nebraska. We were making a quick exit, well as quick as our little Rover can go, from predicted storms in Iowa, tornadoes are not on our “must experience list”.
We looked at weather forecasts and the area we had thought to go in northern Iowa was under flood alerts, so Darrin suggested Nebraska, not a state we had intended to enter. I pulled out our 20 year old atlas and there in the very northwest corner was Ponca State Park.
We checked their weather forecast and it looked much better, so we packed our stuff and headed out. What a great decision!
We met the nicest people! Our campground host, the park staff and our fellow campers were all amazingly friendly and helpful.
These are just a few of the many people we met during our 5 day stay. Many other people stopped by to visit. We enjoyed meeting each and everyone.
Happy trails everyone!
Sounds like old fashion camping
It was. Everyone was out and about instead of in their RVs. We had a nice time.
You are such a great couple; it’s hard not to be friendly and helpful. Wishing you many many more such encounters. Missing you two already.
Hi Bob,
We enjoyed meeting you and Marlene and feel lucky to count you as friends.
Keep in touch.
So glad to hear you met ‘new friends’ that put smiles on your faces and in your hearts. I’m sure meeting the 2 of you did the same for them as well! Motor one to more visits with friendly faces and new friends ( 2 legged & 4 legged)!!