Lake Ogallala, NE 24-26 Sept

24 – 26 Sept 2010

Lat/Long: 41.2281, -101.6614

Location:  Lake Ogallala, NE

Electric Hook Up:  Yes

Water Hook Up: No, but within 10 yards

WiFi: Yes, but it’s some homegrown network – 10 bucks for 30 minutes – no thanks!

Bathroom: 200+ yard walk

Shower:  Free….but a push button shower, 30 seconds each push

Reserve on web at: http://www.reserveamerica.com/

Site:  3

Had a great visit with my brother Jason.  This was a much better campsite then the previous Nebraska site (KOA).  We had perfect real estate that looked over the lake.  We were on the opposite side of Lake McConaughy.  The campground is clean and well spaced – but EVERYONE had a dog so it was a little loud during “walking time”.  But – can’t complain – our dogs were the LOUDEST by far.  So yippy yappy…namely Chase.  

Jason and Dandy Dog are wonderful.  We enjoyed seeing him and spending time with them both.  We ate well, we slept well, we were entertained 100% of the time.  We arrived a little late Friday, but Jason had the fire going and threw on some hot dogs for dinner.  Played a little bit with my camera and the lantern – as you can see in the pics.  Saturday it was windy almost all day, but it settled down about the time the sun set.  Today…just gorgeous.

We had wonderful neighbors beside us.  Jason be-friended them right away Friday.  Their daughter came for a visit and Jason and I helped set up their tent.  We watched them for a bit struggle with poles, fabric, stakes…Jason and I stood up about the same time and took charge – thanks Dad for those handy skills!  But we swapped stories, experiences, dog stories, they brought over some banana bread this morning.  We enjoyed them.

Trip home was a piece of cake.  Took about 3 hours or so.  We passed this lady pushing her car by herself down the interstate.  We decided to turn around…turned out she’d been trying to push her car for AN HOUR, she had her 2 year old strapped into a car seat as she heaved her 4 door sedan down I-76.  Anyway – no one stopped, not even a cop.  We initially called the state patrol and thought we’d just keep going, but our conscience wouldn’t let us.  She ran out of gas…took her to a station, filled it up, in the meantime the cop we called showed up, we wished her luck and that was that.  Just can’t believe that no one bothered to stop…disappoints me greatly.

 

But – back to the trip – all is good.  Dogs are zonked, appears they had a good time too..  Next trip is in two weeks…probably the last one of the season.  ;( 

Happy Trails!!!