Sunday, October 11: And away we go! Finally!!!

Well, we didn't actually get away from home as soon as originally planned, but we finally got on the road about 3:15 PM today!

The weather has been cool and sometimes we get drizzle, so we are really looking forward to getting south!

We decided to take a route that neither of us was familiar with.

We camped for the night at Coffeyville's Walter Johnson Park on the east side of town.

The park campground was almost full with large RVs which look like they had been there a long time. There were about 5 or 6 spots left. We parked beside a large tree.

The City campground has a book swap in the park shelter. Books were stored in plastic containers with lids. The quality of the selection was amazingly good; we later speculated that they may come from Amazon.

In the morning, a city employee solved these mysteries. A housing shortage forces some workers at the Amazon.com warehouse to live here in RVs. He claimed they earn $11 an hour plus Amazon.com paid the $8 a day camping fee. The city man knew nothing about the book swap which was probably being run by one of the Amazon.com employees. His large RV was parked right next to the shelter. He used the shelter as his front porch. Two rugs had been laid down on the shelter's concrete. Comfortable chairs sat facing each other on one set of rugs. The book swap allowed him to get store his library outside and swap with other readers.