We grilled chicken out on the outside grill for lunch on Friday... Carl mentioned that eating outside always makes the food taste so much better. Unfortunately, we had not accounted for the campground septic tank pump (honey wagon) person...
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| Just as we were ready to eat... she was ready to pump... |
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| The meal was really nice! |
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| If you could ignore what was going on right behind you! |
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| Or, right in front of you, from Carl's point of view. We enjoyed our meal anyway... and she was done pretty quickly... |
This is an interesting campground in this regard: there are a few sites in the section where we are parked that are full hookups, but, although they have sewer hookups, they evidently only have a holding tank below the ground, and must be manually pumped out once or twice a week, and carried over to the dump station, which is evidently attached into a sewer system. We have surmised that they added the holding tanks after the sites were already here and, for some reason, could not easily hook them into the system that hooks into the local sewer.
The majority of the campground (800 sites) is for annual lease holders (also known as personal sites). We have enjoyed riding our bikes around all of the campground - it is relatively level, and too large to really enjoy walking all of it. On one of our trips around the personal sites, we found:
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| A Bluebird! Like Miss Doozie... though a couple of years older than Miss Doozie (1998). I thought saw the goat rails from the campground road behind and turned into the loop to see if it was a Bluebird - and it was! |
We rode by it a few times to see if the owners were there... had not found anyone at home until Saturday evening... we were riding around in Phase 5 where it is located and I got a little lost and missed the loop that it was parked on - so we circled back and came up on it just as the owner was arriving. We stopped to talk with him for a bit - he was just coming by to pick up some things, not staying (rain was predicted, not a good camp weekend) - so if we had not happened by just then, we wouldn't have met him. It was a neat God-incidence - if we had not gotten a little lost we wouldn't have happened by there just as he was arriving. We got to tell him a little of our story, and hear a little of his (they had previously had an Airstream trailer).
I have also been interested to see a number of what I have now learned are called "destination trailers". They aren't exactly park models (or maybe they are, but more modern interpretations of what may have previously been called mobile homes). They interested me because they would have a window above a slide out room... I wasn't sure what that might have been for... I also saw one 5th wheel that had this configuration:
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| A small slide out like the one at the rear is usually for the head of a bed - so why would there be a window up there? |
I wondered if it was for a loft area, and, sure enough, that's what I found.
Here is the website for that model of 5th wheel:
If you look at the floorplan, you can see that there are stairs going up. If you use the 360 Tour / Explore 3D space, you can virtually go up the steps and look around.
These are some "destination trailers" that have loft space:
In those, there are actually two areas "upstairs", one that overlooks the living space with spindles to keep the occupant from falling over (but which would allow someone to send toys over to land on the heads of those below!). I used the "measuring" tool in the 3D view and it looks like the height of the area is about 2' - fine for kids, but I would hate to have to make the beds or clean up there!
One more "destination trailer" to look at - there were several of this brand in the personal sites here. They are distinctive because it has a molded picket fence looking thing on the front:
An additional note on the personal sites - there are personal sites in all 5 phases of the campground, and all of phase 1, 3, and 5 are personal sites. Phase 3 has only water/electric sites - no sewer hookups. Carl asked the honey wagon lady about them - she said that they can have their own external holding tanks (we had noticed those on our walks/bike rides) and they pay a fee to have them pumped out when it is needed. It seems that would be really inconvenient when you have a site to leave your rig on all the time...
In general, we've been very impressed with the personal sites here. The few that are in phase 2, where we are staying, are nothing special, but especially in phases 1 and 5, the sites are large, and very well kept for the most part. we only saw one site that was listed for sale, so people seem to be pretty satisfied with them as well, or, at least, they aren't actively moving off and selling them!
Finally... we had seen an interesting rig just down from us, and it left this morning - I got a picture as it was leaving:
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| ...the honey wagon truck was stopped next to us at the time - but it is heading down the road in the center of the picture... |
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| It was like a tiny house - not what you would expect to travel to a campground for a weekend... |
However, it isn't exactly like a tiny house either - it seems to be a 5th wheel, and looks like it may have a toy hauler entry on the back. But, that air conditioner does not appear to be designed to travel along the rough roads for a long term basis...
Anyway.... just thought you might enjoy a few random pictures from around the campground here. We have really enjoyed our week here - even though we've had a bit of rain, it has been nice to be able to just stop, and live, and enjoy some time that is not scheduled with lots of things to do.
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