Rebuilding Roadrunner RV Park

Last week we parked at Roadrunner RV Park in Oklahoma City. We have stayed there many times through the years while preaching at various churches in the area and when passing through. 

It was always a nice park, but they only had a few spots we could wiggle in. I think we parked in the exact same spot every time we parked there in the BoggsMobile.

Here is a picture of the BoggsMobile in our spot in 2014.



Roadrunner RV park took a direct hit from a tornado in 2015. This is our first visit since the park was destroyed by the tornado. It was horrific and a miracle that no one was killed.

I wrote about the destruction from the tornado then and posted some other pictures that we found online. It was terrible for us to see the pictures of a place we had slept so many nights. Obviously it was even worse to be there. The RVs were tossed about like rag dolls. 

Since the storm they have expanded by over 50 spaces. I did not realize until I talked to some of the folks in management, that the expansion was already underway before they were devastated by the tornado.

It was a tremendously trying time for the park. They were in the middle of investing a lot of money to expand and then their incoming revenue was completely stopped!

The remains of RVs were scattered everywhere and RV owners were waiting on word from insurance companies. It was weeks before the clean up could be finished. The park could not rent any of the spaces so all they had was money going out and nothing coming in.

Thankfully they survived the tornado and the financial storm that followed. The original section looks great and the new section looks even better. I would love for some of the turns to be bigger, but they were working within a limited area and it is very good.

We were assigned a spot in the new section. There are several pull through sites in the new part and I am pretty sure we can fit in most of them. Here is a map of the park now. The park circled in red is the new section.

The two rows of pull thru sites circled in blue would have the front end of the bus pointed downhill. That works best for us. The middle section of pull thru spots has the front end running up hill slightly. I put a black line through those.

They also have a few underground storm shelters. They may have had them before, but it is evident they have them now. I think the storm that blew through Friday night had several of us thinking about trying out the shelters.

This picture is from their website.

It was nice to be back at Roadrunner in OKC and very nice to see the expansion for ourselves. We have plans to be in Midwest City later in the year and we will probably stay at RoadRunner again then.

We are having a great time in Wichita this week. I am off to preach my first service at the country jail this morning. The services at the jail are a regular part of our annual trip here and I always look forward to it.

Thank you for dropping by today. Come back real soon.

Davy

Weekend Woundup and Weview 6/25/18

I have had a tent trailer project going this past week, so let us go back to Thursday to wrap that up and then I will get to the weekend. 

The trailer project should have been minor, but I can always escalate a problem without any difficulty at all. I am gifted that way.

The tongue jack on the trailer is hydraulic and has an electric control that plugs into the front of the trailer with a four wire plug. I was rushing to set the trailer on Bro. Rickey Searcy's truck so we could park it when we arrived in OKC a week ago. 

I reached across with gloves on to unplug the control. My hand slipped off the handle and I pulled the cord instead. Before I knew it, the wire was in my hand and the plug was still in the fitting. Oops!

Since Bro. Rickey and I were both in a hurry, we used his floor jack to lift the trailer off his truck and left it for the moment. When I arrived at the bus later and began to put the wires into the plug, I realized my dilemma. Where do the three wires go in the four wire plug?

I could see which three openings had little strands of wire poking out so I at least knew which three, but in what order?

It looked like they had pulled straight out so I hooked them up that way. I took it to the trailer Tuesday and no workie.

I tried two more configurations on Wednesday and no workie.

Finally I took the control at the other end of the cord apart and found how it was wired.

Thursday morning I shuffled things in the trailer, gained access to the motor for the hydraulic lift, got down on my belly and slipped my phone back there and took a video. This is a screenshot from the video and it shows me what I needed to know.

The circle on top of the picture shows me the green wire attached to the big red Hot wire. Green on the hot? I had not even considered that. I put the green on the top pin that I knew was hot and Bingo!

No more floor jack!

I have another tent trailer project that involves the other hydraulic lift and I will try to tackle it this week. I will let you know how that goes.

That same day I was talking to my Dad as he and Mom were going into Red Lobster. I told him to eat a cheddar biscuit for me. I told him to have Mom eat one for me too. They both said they did not need to eat one, but they would each eat one for me.

Sure enough I received this picture evidence in a few moments.

Man! That looks so good. Thankfully Dad and Mom are looking out for me!

We did pretty good for lunch on Friday ourselves!

Friday night we had the last service of revival at Landmark with Pastor Jeremy Brooks and his great folks. It was a little sad saying goodbye to our friends. By God's grace, we will be back around.

We were having great fellowship with all the folks and visitors after church, but that was cut short by a bad storm blowing in. We rushed to the BoggsMobile, loaded Odie in and then quickly transferred the sound equipment into the bus as fast as possible. We got wet but Odie and the equipment were saved. Whew!

All the rain created a bunch of mud. Kelly Jo used Bro. Rickey Searcy's truck Saturday morning to pull the tent trailer out of the parking spot. She did it like a champ, but not without slinging a little mud.

I am afraid she will be wanting a big monster truck soon.

It sure was helpful that Bro. Rickey and the church had a place for us to park the tent trailer. Thank you, friends.

We dropped the trailer off the truck, hooked on with the BoggsMobile, loaded up the Green Machine, strapped it down and headed north. About three hours later we arrived in Wichita and reversed the process, plus washed some red dirt off the tent trailer.

Everything is a little trickier with the tent trailer, but we love parking here at Bethany in Wichita. As they were redoing the parking lot, they have made it very easy for us to get in and out. It all looks great too.

This is our 16th year of revival at Bethany Revival Center in Wichita for Bro. John and Sis. Judy DiZazzo. We love coming here. We had two good revival services on Sunday to begin the meeting. 

Bro. Tom now lives in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma and drove up to be with us for both services on Sunday. He was also with us two nights of tent revival in Amber. It was great to see our friend again.

That wraps up an exciting weekend. We will be here in revival through next Sunday with no service on Saturday night. Come be with us if you can. We would love to have you.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Davy

Our View Out The Front Window June 24, 2018

Here are all the links to our posts from the last week. Please take a moment to check them out.

Odie's Saturday Evening Post

Revival In Pictures - OKC

Some Friendships and Costly AND Worth It

Vintage View Vednesday

Taking The Tent Down In Amber, OK

Weekend Woundup and Weview

This is our view out the front window at Bethany Revival Center in Wichita, Kansas.

We are beginning a week of revival here this morning and we are expecting a great time in the Lord.

Thank you for checking in with us today.

Davy