It's Springtime in Arkansas!

I hope you'll enjoy too the nature and the pretty green and yellow trees - it's spring time in the valley!

Look at these colors!

...or these pastels...isn't it just beautiful?

I couldn't get enough of it...

"Dip" - "dip" - dip" and we were on the top of one! It was big fun to drive down BIG hills :)

Relaxing cows under a tree in spring colors

Nice and peaceful looking farm scenes - I love it!

We arrived in Alpena, a little town close to the State line to Missouri

Signs for all the shows came up on the road - Branson can not be to far away anymore!

Indeed, we crossed the States border pretty soon after Alpena

The University of Hollister, MO - we are soon in Branson!

The first visible sign of Branson - it must be a town of music and entertainment!

And this is the entrance to our so called "home" for the next weeks and months - if we really will like it :)

And this is our pretty outlook every day to the lake Taneycomo from now on - very enjoyable, right?

Hi my friends,

it's now already the 2nd day we have spent in entertaining Branson. Today also we have explored the town again and of course, I made new photos too. Stay tuned with me and come back to see them tomorrow and the next days.

Thanks for your loyal visits and the comments. I appreciate that very much.

See you tomorrow again! :)
Susanne and David

A very lucky afternoon!

We had to drive trough Oklahoma City on our way to East

Oklahoma City
is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's estimated population as of 2006 was 537,734, with a 2008 estimated population of 1,206,142 in the metropolitan area. In 2008, the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,275,758 residents.

Besides Oklahoma County, the city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties. The city ranks as the 7th-largest city in the nation by land area.

The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889. In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by a disaffected U.S. Army veteran. With the Oklahoma City bombing resulting in 168 deaths, Timothy McVeigh caused the most destructive act of domestic terrorism in United States history, and the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Rocktown Climbing Gym
is the premier rock climbing destination in Oklahoma City. Featuring indoor and outdoor top rope and lead climbs up to 90 feet, bouldering, and instruction. We cater not only to the die-hard expert climber but to families and those of all abilities seeking adventure.

Try to read this sign in this way: Lot a water :))

...and you'll see a "Lotawatah" here...LOL... oh, btw...this is the Arkansas River


The Arkansas River
is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

At 1,469 miles (2,364 km) it is the sixth longest river in the United States, the second-longest tributary in the Mississippi-Missouri system, and the 45th longest river in the world. Its origin is in the Rocky Mountains in Lake County, Colorado, near Leadville, and its outlet is at Napoleon, Arkansas. The Arkansas River drainage basin covers nearly 195,000 sq mi (505,000 km²). In terms of volume, the river is smaller than both the Missouri and Ohio Rivers, with a mean discharge of 8,460 ft³/s (240 m³/s).

And this is the spot that made our travel day to a lucky day!

We stopped for an hour and started playing a little bit and WON more than 10 times of that what we invested and it was great BIG amount of money! I don't tell you now how much it was...LOL...I don't want to make you jealouse....LOL...

I wanted to stay there longer and play some more - but David didn't, he wanted to keep the money we won to buy a new RV...LOL... :)

The Casino had a very nice ambiance, tasteful deco and as I told already, great and "hot" slot machines - I'm actually not a gambler, I was just a lucky girl! :)

Fire Lake Grand Casino
If cards are your thing, FireLake Grand Casino has your game. From Poker, Blackjack, Spinnette, Craps, and Ultimate Texas Hold ‘Em, FireLake Grand Casino offers card players a wide range of choices for the beginning player to the card shark. And, the winning gets even hotter with monthly poker tournaments.

Hi my friends,

in the meantime we are arrived in Branson, Missouri! The RV place is nice, its located directly at the water of Lake Taneycomo - and the weather was nice too, yesterday!

Today it's gray here and cloudy and much cooler. We met also already all our other "c0-workers" and we got already our work schedule. Luckily we start working only on coming next Wednesday - so we have a week off and enough time to explore Branson. We did our first walk into Down Town yesterday evening and had a fine dinner there and I'll show you some pictures about that tomorrow - not of the dinner of course...LOL.... :)

In the mean time I want to say thank you to all your comments to my last post - you make my day with your nice compliments.

See you later!
Susanne and David

Oklahoma - here we are!

We left Amarillo this morning and had 250 miles to drive to Oklahoma City, that was our goal for today - we didn't made it! We were to late already from start on, but what's up... we are arrived save in Cherokee El Rino in Oklahoma for our night place in a campground.

These photos are again some nice landscape impressions from the route today

This yellow bridge in the picture is the real good old Route 66 that is following I-40 for long way.

In Oklahoma changed the soil color to red again, and it's a very intensive red - different and much stronger than I have seen in Arizona

Pretty red hills on the horizon
(all the picture are click able to see it bigger)

It seems for me that Oklahoma is a farming state

And another pretty landscape
(all the photos were captured out of my window)

Hi my friends,

Thank you again for all your wonderful comments to my sunset photos (with horses) from yesterday. I'm happy you liked it! :)

Some days ago I made a remark here on my blog that we have "new decisions to make". I have not forgotten to keep my promise and to tell you what's all about.

O.k., we've decided to make new experiences and give our travels a deeper meaning, that's why we decided to do a summer job as "work campers" in Branson, Missouri. That's the reason why we are heading to East again. :)

What is work camping?
It sounds so far to be something fun - we will see :))

We will be on a very nice campground located on a pretty lake and close to Down Town Branson, where a lot of theaters/shows of famous singers and entertainers are. We will be working a total of 24 hrs a week for a free parking space and the rest of the week we are off and we will enjoy everything what Branson has to offer.

I hope, we will like it, we absolutely don't know what we are expecting because we never have done something like that before. But it's never to late to start something new in life for collecting new impressions, to meet other new and fun people and to learn also some new stuff. We will have also the possibility to visit all the famous shows for free or almost free.

The summer in the hills and on the lake in Branson is much more enjoyable than the hot deserts of Nevada or Arizona. This was one of the biggest reasons for us to choose Branson,MO as our new place to stay over summer time.

Cross your fingers for us that everything will come as we are wishing for. :)

I will have hopefully more time for my blogging again and for visiting also all your great blogs and to bring a lot of new photos from an other beautiful place in this pretty country!

Stay with me and see you later,
Susanne and David