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Ivy's Cove RV Retreat
321 Bradley Cove Rd
Russellville, Arkansas 72802

479-280-1662

August 8, 2021

Ivy’s Cove RV Retreat in Russellville, Arkansas, was one of two non-KOA stops I made along the way from California to New York. I chose Ivy’s Cove because the KOAs along the way were either too close or too far away from my last stop, so I got brave and picked an RV campground that was conveniently located for my travels and had good reviews online. And it turned out to be a very nice campground — a lot like a KOA, with plenty of spacious, level pull-through sites and full hook-ups. The host was pleasant and welcoming, and the camp store was well-stocked with travel necessities.

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Checotah/Lake Eufaula West KOA Holiday
409329 E 1078 Rd
I-40 and Pierce Rd Exit 255
Checotah, OK 74426

918-473-6511

August 7, 2021

Next stop was Checotah, Oklahoma, a lovely campground with huge sites and lots of trees! Once out of the desert southwest, the campgrounds started to have a lot more trees, which helped with the heat, but it was still too hot to do much of anything except walk around the campground a little and check out the camp store.

The drive from my previous campground, the Elk City/Clinton KOA, was about 3.5 hours long and very stressful, due to having to drive through Oklahoma City — I hated having to pull the trailer through big cities, with multi-lane freeways and heavy traffic. I would have liked to just get in the slow lane and stay there, but that was impossible as lanes kept dropping off or getting added, and I was always afraid of missing my exit. And poor Mister was getting more stressed out and agitated with every day’s drive. I was really starting to worry about him, not knowing how to settle him down, and with the trip only half over.

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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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