Escapees Escapade Gillette, WY
Escapees is an RV club with members all over North America, and once a year they have a big ‘Escapade’ where everyone who can converges on one place for seminars, sales of RV related stuff and systems, but mostly re-connecting with friends and getting together to socialize.
This is our first Escapade since they are held in the US in the summer when we are home, but this year it fit in with our kids’ visits, and our trip across Canada, so we put it ‘on the list’ hoping we’d make it - and we did!
This year it is held in Gillette, WY at their Camplex - a wonderful set of well appointed buildings just perfect for what we are doing. There is camping on site, and while we were prepared to dry camp, we were glad some electric sites were available as it was really hot when we arrived and our little generator won’t handle our air conditioner.
We got settled in, with really nice friendly neighbours on both sides and behind.
Sunday there was an Escapees church service which we attended, and afterwards saw several friends that we had met a few years ago in the Arizona desert! There ended up being 10 of us, and we all went out to supper together - Uncle Freddie’s Junkyard Grill in case you think it was fine dining :)
We have taken in seminars, Mike turned a pen, I made a bracelet and took in a beginning quilting class plus some line-dancing, and we both learned how to play pickleball. Every afternoon there has been a social with one group or another, plus evening entertainment, so we’re keeping very busy.
There is WiFi here, problem is lugging the laptop the 1/2 mile to the main building where everything is done and carrying it around until we go back to the trailer..... but today I had nothing I needed to do this morning so Mike took my bike off the back of the rig (took him all of 5 minutes) and I bungied the laptop on the back of the bike, and voila!
Next stop - Black Hills area, SD (Mt. Rushmore, gold rush towns etc.)
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