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Elk City/Clinton KOA Journey
21167 RT. 66 N
Foss, OK 73647

580-592-4409

August 6, 2021

I don’t know why KOAs sometimes have two cities in their name when they’re located in an actual third city. The Elk City/Clinton KOA is in Foss, OK. Arrived at around 2:30 PM after a 2.5 hour drive from Amarillo. Although it was a short-ish drive, poor Mister kitty continued to be increasingly agitated about riding in the truck in his carrier. He cried endlessly, until I stopped at a rest area, gave him treats and snuggles and some Rescue Remedy and he finally settled down. I’d tried a Thundershirt on him to see if it would calm him, but it just made him more stressed.

After we arrived and got set up, I took the truck out for gas. Whenever the truck’s navigation directed me to “OK-40”, the truck mistook it for its wake words, “OK Ford,” and it woke itself up. Kept asking me what I wanted but I wasn’t talking to it, it was talking to itself!

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Amarillo KOA Journey
1100 Folsom Road
Amarillo, TX 79108

806-335-1792

August 5, 2021

Amariilo, TX was only a few hours from my previous campground in Tucumcari, NM, but I’d lost another hour due to time changes and was so utterly exhausted that I couldn’t have handled a longer drive. As it was, I spent most of the afternoon after I’d arrived and set up wandering around in a daze.

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Tucumcari/Route 66 KOA Journey
6299 Quay Road AL
Tucumcari, NM 88401

575-461-1841

August 4, 2021

I had meant to leave the previous KOA in Grants, NM early, but because of the time change, I was late getting started and had a long, stressful drive to Tucumcari. Mister had been getting more agitated every day in the truck, and we still had a long way to go. I gave him some CBD pet chews to try to settle him down, but it didn’t help and he continued to cry all the way, which of course got Davey complaining, too. Then Davey managed to unzip his carrier and came out and started roaming around the truck. I stopped at a rest stop after about two hours for lunch. Gave Mister another CBD chew and secured Davey’s carrier with zip ties and safety pins to hold the zippers closed. Put towels in their carriers so they’d have more covers to burrow in.

Then, soon after leaving the rest stop, we got caught up in a downpour and a huge stop-and-go traffic jam. Eventually came to a disabled semi truck in the left lane and out of the traffic jam — only to run immediately into road construction and more stop-and-go traffic. Fortunately, the kitties were calm through the traffic jams, probably because we were creeping along so slowly.

Finally arrived at the KOA around 4:30 PM. Then ran into another problem — couldn’t get the trailer off the hitch, no matter how high I jacked up the tongue. In desperation, I went to the office for some advice, and the host suggested checking the coupler, which I did, and found that, sure enough, the latch had fallen shut and was still attached to the coupler. So I finally got the trailer unhitched and leveled and set up. By then, it was nearly 6 PM and I was so exhausted, I just made myself some dinner and went to bed early. Can’t really say anything about the campground other than that it was there! I really appreciated how helpful the guy at the office was, though.