what a difference a day makes!
The campground is practically full. Two days ago there might have been two RVs per row at the campground. Now you might find one spot every other row that’s open.
Improved Tent Camping
We walked the grounds this morning. In addition to the facilities in the Rec. Lodge, they have a dog run, a bicycle course complete with jumps, a horse shoe pavilion, boccie ball courts, lean-to and tent camps, a Frisbee golf course, and (drum roll) the Kamper’s Kitchen is open this weekend.
Kamper’s Kitchen is serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They feature steamed dinners including twin lobsters for $19.95 and steamers 1 lb for $10 and 2 1b for $19. The kitchen is catered by Fresh Catch Restaurant and should be quite fresh. This is the last weekend the kitchen will be open this year.
Oak Leaves
Ellen Rockin’ Out!
Ellen just sent me out to get BACON at the kitchen. We had bacon and eggs, mmmmm good. I ordered two lobsters and a pound of steamers which we’ll pick up around noon. The wind picked up yesterday and cleared enough leaves off the trees that I can get direcTv now. I have mixed feelings about that. As we head south we should return to peak foliage in the Carolina s.
The Lodge is closer than it looks
Time is running short now. Ellen wants to be home on the 19th a few days ahead of my sister’s arrival. That gives us 13 more travel days. We guesstimate it will take 7 getting home and we’ll visit Jessie for 3 days on Hilton Head Island. That gives us just 3 discretionary days. Gone is any though of taking the ferry to Montauk, gone the thought of driving the outer banks and taking the ferry from Ocracoke to Swanquarter NC., gone time to visit Judy Pane in New Orleans, gone any hope of visiting Washington DC. Just as we had to buzz east and skip so much that we passed right by, so we’ll have to buzz west.
We will visit Valley Forge, and forts Miffin and Mercer and a detour from Jackson to Natchez and back to Vicksburg. From there we’ll find our way to 40 and head West keeping an eye on the weather.
It is not sad to be winding up or tour. It has been big fun. The Beast will sit at the ready for our next road trip. Ski season appears to be starting in California. We still have some loose ends to tie up for our trip to Ecuador and Peru this spring. One fellow we met said the second year of retirement is the hardest. The first year you spend working down your “bucket list” and the second year you twiddle your thumbs wondering what to do with your free time. I do not think we’ll have that problem. We have so many interests in addition to travel and photography and we could spend a lifetime mastering just one of them.
