Monday 10-15 Another Rainy Day

It's raining

It rained all night and into the morning. In fact it rained on and off all day long, at times it came down hard.

We were camped in the Lucky Lady Casino parking lot and when we woke up the parking lot was empty, apparently the casino is not open 24 hours a day. We had changed time zones so it started to get light out a bit earlier, Larry wanted to get on the road so I crawled out of bed about 7:10, which is early for me. But I had slept about seven hours so that was plenty of sleep, plus I take naps while Larry drives. We had oatmeal for breakfast and then we got the Minnie ready to go. We were on the road about 8:00.

It was going to be another long day of driving for Larry. We drove interstates most of the time. The rain came down hard at enough at times to make us slow down. One person did not slow down enough and ended up sliding off the road into the medium.  We started in Missouri and entered into Arkansas where we saw lots of fields of rice and cotton. They are in the process of harvesting the cotton, all of the harvested cotton was in round bales similar to round bales of hay. I don't remember seeing cotton baled like this before.

It's suppose to rain all day tomorrow so we decided we needed a place to hold up at for a couple of nights. Larry had thought we would drive into Texas today but he decided to stop earlier at DeGray Lake Resort State Park in Arkansas. While Larry was checking in the gentleman asked if there was anyone in the group that was 62 years old, I am so there was a 25% discount for the site. What a nice surprise. Once we were setup we went over and took a shower. In the evening I baked peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. We spent the evening reading.

DeGray Lake Resort Welcome sign

It's a big park with a golf course, disc golf course, a 96+room lodge, campground, day use area, marina, park store and hiking trails. The campground sites are 1-82 Class B (water and 30amp), 83-107 Class AAA (30/50amp, water and sewer) and 108-113 walk-in sites. Every site has a lot of trees, picnic table, grill and fire ring. The campground has two dump stations and restrooms with showers. There are yurts you can rent. The marina has 132 slips and you can rent fishing boats, motor and party barges, canoes and deck boats. The day use area has a boat launch, beach, picnic tables and grills, restrooms and playground.