Coffeyville,Kansas

Well! Here we are in Coffeyvile, Kansas getting ready to start a new workamping adventure.

Coffeyville is in the southeast corner of Kansas just 5 miles north of the Oklahoma line. It has a population of 11,000 people and believe it or not some industry. It is the home of Amazon.com's largest fulfillment center in the world which is what brings us here to this little corner of the world. Other industry includes a John Deer plant, a refinery and nitrogen fertilizer plant, American Craftsman, and several others.

This little town also has a lively history, the Dalton Gang robbed the Conder bank in 1892 and the bank has been preserved and is very interesting to tour. The old jail is standing too with the dead gang members laid out on the floor! We will tour it all again on a day when we have more time.

We are actually employed by Express Professionals, a staffing agency located in Independance, Kansas. Express has hired 600 RV workampers made up mostly of retired fulltime RVers. Our campground is paid for by them and we get a salary! Cool! Express trialed a few workampers last year and were very pleased with the work ethic and have kicked it up several notches this year. We have met people here that we have run into(not literally) on the road. In fact, the people we parked next to turns out to be people who helped us put on an RV rally last Feb. in Casa Grande, AZ. We also had lunch with a couple we met while we all were helping out with the hurricaine Katrina disaster. It is so much fun running into old friends and making new ones. It will hopefully be a fun as well as a busy 9 weeks.

Today we will do more exploring and will go to a Senior Health Fair and probably get a flu shot.