Venture Out (https://ventureoutrvresort.com/), the resort where we are staying, has a unique appearance on maps.
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| On Google maps via this link |
Its distinctive layout is easy to see from the air.
The names of the streets are aircraft names (where you see "6th St" on the map is not what those streets are called in the community). The spokes are alphabetical, Bonanza, Cherokee, Dart, Encoupe, Fairchild, Grumman, Helio, Invincible, Jenny. Comanche is the main entrance road from the north. The radials (rings?) don't have the same alphabetical organization - we are on Douglas, which is one street in from the outer wall. Navaho runs along the outer wall, though sometimes Aero is added to take in some of the corner area. Inside of Douglas are Merlin, Aztec, Debonair, Boeing, Navion, and Luscombe.
Our lot is 807 Douglas, between Bonanza and Cherokee.
Most of the lots have "park models" (aka mobile homes) on them. On Douglas, 807 (ours) and 811 are for RVs (they just don't have any structure other than a storage building built on them). Our lot has a green carpet (that neither of us likes very much, but it is glued down, and we aren't willing to try to resolve it yet). You might notice an octagonal building at the corner of Cherokee and Merlin -- that's a bathhouse. There are a few scattered around the resort - possibly more useful when more of the resort was RVs, not as much needed now with most units being park models. You can also see that the park model on the corner of Douglas and Cherokee has taken advantage of the ability to make a wider side with the pie-shaped lot - a lot of the park models on the street corners have a nice semi-circular wrap-around porch that takes full use of the available space.
The corners of the resort (beyond the housing areas) are used for special purposes. The northeast corner (nearest us) has athletic areas: batting cages, bocce ball, golf driving cages, pickleball courts, and tennis courts. The southeast corner has RV parking (for folks who own park models and RVs, drive their RVs here and need a place to park them). The glass art and maintenance buildings, as well as recycling are also there. The southwest corner is where we went to wash the Jeep; the silversmith, woodcarvers, woodshop, lapidary, and handyman workshops are there. The pet walk is also there -- in a flood control area. There are a couple of areas in the park that are lower than ground level and in which nothing permanent is built that are designed to hold water if we have flooding rains. The northwest corner is not part of the resort (there are other businesses located outside the resort wall in that area).
The center has common use elements - the administrative building, activities office, library, post office, meeting rooms (which aren't being used much / at all at this time), billiards room. There are two pools - east pool (nearest to us) and west pool. The east pool area has a fitness center and workout room, and two hot tubs. In the center there is also a croquet ground, shuffleboard, putting green, horseshoe pits, lawn bowling, laundry, and the fired clay arts and sewing rooms. There are two rows of RV parking spots for non-residents to rent -- for a few nights or for the season.
We have been biking mostly around the outer ring -- it is about 2 miles all the way around. The other rings have yield signs at each spoke, so they keep us from being able to ride briskly around.
So now you know a little about where we are staying!
