Tulsa, Oklahoma is one of the best well kept secrets. Not counting ocean front states and the Great Lake states, Oklahoma offers the most water shoreline than any of the other states. Several of our lakes are large enough on which one can get lost. One of the largest lakes is the only one in Oklahoma in which one can have water front property, it has floating restaurants and several islands, some of which come up for sale on occasion, at a very pretty price. Most of the lakes offer nice easy to difficult trails, cabins for sale or rent and moderate rock climbing and repelling. We also have several rivers in which one can canoe, though the water is only rapid enough to carry you downstream in the Spring, rather than you carrying your boat downstream. The water does run fast enough after a good rain for it to make standing in the water and climbing out of the rapids difficult.
We offer yachting and canoeing clubs, caving and rock climbing clubs, a scuba diving club, skydiving club, hunting club, martial arts clubs and every other club from A to Z. For the more intellectual types; or, for those like myself we offer both sports clubs and intellect clubs: examples of these would be the writing club, chess club, Psychology club, Civics clubs, astronomy and other science clubs, art clubs and book reading clubs.
Tulsa is an average sized city, population about 400,000. If one counts the suburbs, there are close to a million of us. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that we had just about every kind of club one could possibly want to join, some are free and the rest are less than $50 dollars a year to join and all of them allow you to use their equipment, such as with the caving, repelling and astronomy clubs.
If you live in a small town and don’t want to drive to the city nearest you to join the club you’d be most interested in; then, perhaps you could get enough friends and other town people together to form one of your own clubs. By charging dues, about $25 a year, then you’d be able to save the money to go places together. Camping is likely the cheapest kind of club to begin or canoeing. A person can buy a raft or kayak for $50.00 to $800.00. If your interest lies more in caving or repelling, you can send off for information on the subject from various park rangers and Chambers of Commerce. Once you find out what kind of equipment you’ll need and how much it will cost, you can set monthly dues until everyone has the needed items, then, reduce the cost to join and stay in it. Perhaps, some of the persons you know in town who’d be interested in joining would already have some of the needed items. Maybe one or two would have RV’s or other campers and someone else would have repelling gear; it’s possible they’d taken up the sport before and quit for a while or maybe they were on a search and rescue team and have this kind of equipment.
Either way, it is possible to start your own club if you’re an hour or so from the largest city that would offer these kinds of items for entertainment and it is one of the best ways to meet new people, maybe even that special person. So, go clubbing and form one and see what the world has to offer out there. This kind of clubbing one won’t regret, as you’ll remember what you did last night and with whom you stayed the night; you won’t wake with a headache and you’ll not regret with whom you stayed the night. Nor will there be any unwanted surprises – like pregnancy or disease.
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