Awake: 5:15am Temp 56 sleep 5+13 sunny overnight @ Newell campground.
No hurry to get out of bed this morning but the early wake up is a habit. Kathy enjoyed some extra zzzzz's however.
We were probably getting our coach washed around 9:00am with the cell phone inside & we were outside when Katrina called with a "Happy Anniversary" message. Thanks Katrina; glad to hear Denver's weather shaped up to allow the mountain climbing & hiking sports, etc. And we sure enjoyed our time with you & your many friends during our visit. Here is our coach getting the water works & a good washing in the bay.
After the washing, our coach was returned to site # 8.
Around 11:00am, Kathy & I had been invited to join Cheryl on a tour of Claremore, OK & the Will Rogers Museum. I declined this generous offer to keep an eye open for glitches that the techs find on other coaches & sometimes explain the fix I can understand.
Cheryl's husband Paul & I got some good gabbing time in...on & off during the (4+) hrs the ladies' were absence.
Now that our coach is washed & the safety recall notice has been satisfied, the only thing left to do is the alignment, so I've also been watching the man working diligently to re-calibrate that system.
During my spare time, I continued taking photos of the building process on a Newell coach.
Most of the Newell coaches being built now are using the Cummings 625 horse power engine with a choice of transmissions.
If you look closely you can see the 4 slides already set on the steel structure.
Outside & closer to the Newell campground, there is a display of pre-owned coaches, starting from year 2003 or earlier & up through 2010.
Kathy & Cheryl returned about 4:45pm & Kathy gave me a full report. The Will Rogers Museum was first built in 1938, three yrs after Will's death, on 20 acres that he bought in 1911 for his retirement home. It was added onto in 1982 & the whole museum remodeled 1990-1995.
It is on a beautiful site overlooking the Tiawah Valley; Will Rogers & his wife are interred in a sunken garden overlooking this valley. The museum, devoted to his life, wisdom, & humor houses memorabilia, photographs, Rogers's lariats, costumes, saddles for his horse Soapsuds, movie posters, personal belongings and original manuscripts of his writings.
Various galleries display his many careers, from the "Cherokee Kid" trick roper (Rogers was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing three ropes at once) to Hollywood's highest paid movie star.
Will Rogers made 71 movies during his career, both silent and "Talkies." The movies run continuously from 8 AM to 5 PM in the museum's mini-theater, but Kathy & Cheryl due to time constraints did not watch any. However, they did watch a 20 min movie of his life.
They also traveled to Oolagah to see Will Rogers' birthplace house. It is a two-story house built in 1875 with a beautiful view of Lake Oolagah. The museum was well worth the trip; the birthplace not so much. But Kathy & Cheryl had a great, fun time together.
Dinner: Chile with pasta, & an orange cutie.
Evening movie: "Saturday Night Fever" with John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna Pescow, Julie Bovasso, etc. Travolta's first starrig film is thoughtful study of Brooklyn youth who finds only meaning in his life when dancing at local disco. Film pulses to dynamic Bee Gees music score ("Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Staying Alive,"etc). 1977. Terrific movie for the time period; but some may be offended with the street language & sexual scenes.
Lights out: 11:20pm.
No hurry to get out of bed this morning but the early wake up is a habit. Kathy enjoyed some extra zzzzz's however.
We were probably getting our coach washed around 9:00am with the cell phone inside & we were outside when Katrina called with a "Happy Anniversary" message. Thanks Katrina; glad to hear Denver's weather shaped up to allow the mountain climbing & hiking sports, etc. And we sure enjoyed our time with you & your many friends during our visit. Here is our coach getting the water works & a good washing in the bay.
After the washing, our coach was returned to site # 8.
Around 11:00am, Kathy & I had been invited to join Cheryl on a tour of Claremore, OK & the Will Rogers Museum. I declined this generous offer to keep an eye open for glitches that the techs find on other coaches & sometimes explain the fix I can understand.
Cheryl's husband Paul & I got some good gabbing time in...on & off during the (4+) hrs the ladies' were absence. Now that our coach is washed & the safety recall notice has been satisfied, the only thing left to do is the alignment, so I've also been watching the man working diligently to re-calibrate that system.
During my spare time, I continued taking photos of the building process on a Newell coach.
Most of the Newell coaches being built now are using the Cummings 625 horse power engine with a choice of transmissions.
If you look closely you can see the 4 slides already set on the steel structure.
Outside & closer to the Newell campground, there is a display of pre-owned coaches, starting from year 2003 or earlier & up through 2010.
Kathy & Cheryl returned about 4:45pm & Kathy gave me a full report. The Will Rogers Museum was first built in 1938, three yrs after Will's death, on 20 acres that he bought in 1911 for his retirement home. It was added onto in 1982 & the whole museum remodeled 1990-1995. It is on a beautiful site overlooking the Tiawah Valley; Will Rogers & his wife are interred in a sunken garden overlooking this valley. The museum, devoted to his life, wisdom, & humor houses memorabilia, photographs, Rogers's lariats, costumes, saddles for his horse Soapsuds, movie posters, personal belongings and original manuscripts of his writings.
Various galleries display his many careers, from the "Cherokee Kid" trick roper (Rogers was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing three ropes at once) to Hollywood's highest paid movie star.
Will Rogers made 71 movies during his career, both silent and "Talkies." The movies run continuously from 8 AM to 5 PM in the museum's mini-theater, but Kathy & Cheryl due to time constraints did not watch any. However, they did watch a 20 min movie of his life.
They also traveled to Oolagah to see Will Rogers' birthplace house. It is a two-story house built in 1875 with a beautiful view of Lake Oolagah. The museum was well worth the trip; the birthplace not so much. But Kathy & Cheryl had a great, fun time together.
Dinner: Chile with pasta, & an orange cutie.
Evening movie: "Saturday Night Fever" with John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna Pescow, Julie Bovasso, etc. Travolta's first starrig film is thoughtful study of Brooklyn youth who finds only meaning in his life when dancing at local disco. Film pulses to dynamic Bee Gees music score ("Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Staying Alive,"etc). 1977. Terrific movie for the time period; but some may be offended with the street language & sexual scenes.
Lights out: 11:20pm.
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