Around Horseshoe Lakes

We arrived at Horseshoe Lakes in Clinton, Indiana on Monday. This is a Thousand Trails park that Dwayne and I had visited twice in the past (September 2016 and July 2017) - and one we particularly liked. When I tried earlier this summer to book some nights at this campground, it was showing as unavailable, but I found that I could book 3 nights this week (during the week, not on the weekend).

As with other Thousand Trails parks, sites are not assigned when you are given a reservation. Often, you need to drive around looking for an available site, but when we got here, I asked if the lady in the office had any recommendation of a site for us, and she recommended A12 as being available and easy to get into,

... and, according to the map, it appeared to be right on one of the several lakes in the campground.

Well, it was available,

.... and it was easy to back into (very little turn off the roadway to back into the site)...

... but, right on the lake? not so much -- though there is a path to the left of the front of the Jeep that goes up the hill and to the very brushy edge of the lake. (Note: the lady in the office did not make any indication that the site was on a lake - we just made the assumption from the campground map that we were looking at.)

The site is also a bit down in a hollow which makes our internet access a little iffy - but Carl has put up our mono directional Yagi antenna (more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagi%E2%80%93Uda_antenna) and connected it to our cellular booster, so we are getting acceptable service from our MiFi device.

We walked around a large part of the campground Monday evening, and then took our bikes to be able to travel more of the trails that are around the lakes beyond the camping areas this morning (Tuesday):

It is a beautiful, slightly chilly, first-day-of-fall day here in Indiana!

One of the multiple lakes around the property (*not* the one that we are parked "next" to!).

This campground has a *lot* of seasonal residents - Carl and I have noticed less than 10 out of the 134 sites being available for transient users like us. But, the campground gets funds by renting to seasonals, and, as long as they meet the requirements from Thousand Trails for those of us who just come for a few days, I guess it is okay. (I don't know what the requirements from Thousand Trails are - like whether they need to have so many sites available to non-seasonals.)

This campground was able to upgrade all of their electrical hookups this year so all sites have 50A - so that is an advantage that they were probably only able to afford due to seasonal rentals - and we are able to take advantage of the upgrade (the site that we are in used to be 30A only).