Showing posts with label Gateway Arch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gateway Arch. Show all posts

Monday, August 16, 2021

July/August 2021 Trip – Gateway Arch, Indiana Dunes National Parks, Chicago, IL

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This is an escaping TX heat/visiting family, trip.  We are including visits to four National Parks and two National Lakeshores.

On the way we stop at Elephant Rock State Park in OK.  The campground itself is on Lake Murray, it’s huge, popular for fishing and playing in the water.  We are on a small arm of it, a no wake zone so canoeing, kayaking, fishing and inner tube floating goes on all around us.  We break out our ‘origami/foldable’ Oru kayaks.  While traveling, with a bit of planning and effort, we fit one in the back seat of the truck, the second inside the camper.  With the exception of a paddling class we took a month earlier this is our first opportunity getting out to paddle.