Steve Oliver
May 5, 2026 Google Maps
Dear Folks at Pleasant Valley RV Park,
I wanted to take a moment, now that we’re back home, to tell you thank you. Not in the quick, passing way people often do, but in the slower sense that comes after you’ve had time to realize what a place gave you.
We arrived carrying more than what was packed in the RV. Work has a way of following along, even when you try to leave it behind, and the noise of it all had settled in deeper than I’d like to admit. But somewhere between setting up and sitting down near the Arkansas River, things began to quiet.
Your park doesn’t try too hard, and I mean that as a compliment of the highest order. It’s clean, cared for, and honest. It gives a person room. Room to think, or not think. Room to sit with a cup of coffee in the morning air while the river moves steady like it always has. Room to watch the day wind down by a fire without feeling like you’re supposed to be anywhere else.
There’s something about that stretch of land you’re tending that does a bit of work on a person if they let it. It reminds you what quiet feels like. It reminds you that not everything needs to be rushed, solved, or improved upon. Some things are just meant to be experienced as they are.
I don’t know if that’s something you set out to create, or if it’s just what naturally happens when people take pride in a place and care for it well, but it shows.
Thank you for keeping it that way. Thank you for offering a place where people can come set a few things down for a while.
We’ll be back.
Best regards,
Stephen Ango Oliver
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