Finally made it to Charlie Brown's

May 26 - The last day on the road!  When we got up there were several tractor trailers beside us so we knew it was a safe night.  The car was still behind the RV!  We slept in and didn’t get on the road until 9:00.  We had good weather all the way so that was a major plus.  We didn’t need any more pitfalls along the way.

With the detour we took the roads were terrible, lumpy bumpy all the way.  Stuff was all over and even the catfood container fell off the counter and there was cat food everywhere.  Oh well, it was easy to clean up.

There were more deer along the highway and even a white deer.  I don’t think I have ever seen one in person.  Later down in a low spot there was a deer grazing and I think that one’s chances were better.  I spotted my first Oriole, no not a Baltimore one.  It was really pretty, would like some at my bird feeder.

We arrived at the campground after a 15 or so mile drive off the interstate.  It was hilly, wooded areas with lots of small “towns” along the way if that is what you’d call them.  Maybe Villages.  Had no trouble finding the campground and as soon as we pulled in the owners, Steve and Pam were there to greet us along with one of the other volunteers, Barbara.  Later we met her husband, Ron and Carl and Linda.  The fourth couple are Joe and Rick who actually are from Tavares and they used to own JR’s Attic Door in Winter Garden.  Small World!

Steve took Bill to see our space and I thought we were going to back in but when I walked back there they had parked us parallel.  We were pretty uneven and the guys decided that to make sure the jacks would work efficiently they should put boards under the low tires and then under the jacks as the ground here is still pretty wet and soft.  Once we got leveled Bill hooked up our water and electric and started putting out our yard stuff while I got organized inside.  Tried to get started posting the blog but the wifi is terrible.  I still have to download photos and resize them for posting.

It’s nice to be able to open all the slides and put everything away.  After dinner we took a walk down to the lower sites and took a look around, sat by the Natchaug River.  This campground has an upper and lower and we are in the upper where the full hook up sites are.  The lower has 31 sites right on the river and more on the inside loop.  There are 4 pavilions, a playground, soccer field, fishing pond and big play areas for the kids.  About half of the sites are seasonals that leave their RV’s and come for the summer or a month or weekends.

We report for duty at 12:30 tomorrow.