Sunday, July 22, 2012

Rainbow and Moved to the Famcamp at Ellsworth AFB

Last evening we got a thunder storm here in Rapid City.  After the first "Boomers" went thru, I went out and got some great photos of the complete rainbow...and a partial 2nd rainbow....not clear in the photos, but it was there...



Then in the other direction, I got a nice shot of the sunset.

 Then the another storm came thru and they and the wind blew all night long.. I got up this morning about 4am...(still on Eastern Time, I guess...lol) turned on the coffee and the TV....No TV!! So I just played on the computer and took Spinner for a walk in the pre-dawn light.  Didn't want to wake Dock/Ernie up just to fix the satellite dish that blew over ; waited until he did....

We had planned to go check out the campground at the AFB, mainly, because the price at the current campground was pricy for what they offered....Full hookups, yes, but nothing else...no bathouse and no laundry....And also to do some shopping at the PX and Commissary....We were early for the shopping and went to the campground first.  Nice place and a reasonable price...$20/night with NO TAX!!! And a bathouse and laundry....Yipee!!!  Well, we chatted with the Camp Host, John, and his wife, Maria, really nice folks...exchanging "war stories" about camp hosting....and told them we'd call or stop by later to let them know.....we drove to find the shopping plaza and talked about how nice the CG is and the price....and decided then and there to go back, give them a check for a 10 day stay, and went back to the other CG to collect Spinner and the 5er....It took us about an hour and a half and we were back...got our site, set up, and now we're "home" for the next 10 days....We both had to agree that we felt better staying here than the other place.... 

Our 5er on our site Ellsworth AFB, SD....


 It's still hot in this part of the world, but we did take a few minutes to sit out and enjoy a adult beverage before going back into the A/C....lol



Tomorrow we go pick up our mail, pay for our 1 night stay there, and do the paper work to become South Dakota Residents....We have a friend also in the area from my women RV forum( Hi, Karen!) and wished we could get together, but looks like between this stuff with the Drivers Lic, registering the truck and 5er, getting the insurances changed to SD and get a little sight-seeing in before Aug. 1st....it's not going to happen this time.  But we are going thru Texas, so ya' may see us yet....lol...

Okay, that's it for today....

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