Site # 86

Here is a view of the site all the way around… there is some weeding to do and general cleanup but overall it’s ready to be used.

Some weeding, cleaning up and this fire pit will be awesome!

I wonder who will be over there next year?

Disgusting Walnut Goop

What happens through the summer when you’re parked under a walnut tree? The roof turns black. What happens during the fall? The walnuts rot in the tree and fall onto your roof and drip black goop that doesn’t wash off.

Keep in mind when you see these pictures, the sidewalls were washed, NONE of the black goop came off. I’m going to bring some stronger stuff this weekend, right now it rains down walnuts when the wind blows, they make a very loud thud when they hit! I can’t wait until we move to our new spot next year!

So much for the rig staying clean for even a week after detailing.

We Picked Site 86

We drove up to Blackhawk Valley and looked at site 145, decided instantly against it and walked around 86 and decided instantly to go for it. We paid the initial payment so we are set for next year.

Technically we can store it here for the winter but if it snows I’ll lose access to driving it because of the steepness of the hill. We’ll see, we’re going to discuss storage with them this weekend.

Here is a picture we took tonight which I think shows how big it is, what we found though is behind the American flag is another area that 5 or 6 people could easily sit around in. We’ll take more pictures of the site this weekend.

Leasing A Site For Next Year

We had decided to go for it if either site # 86 or site # 145 was available for next year. If not we would go back to storing the rig and taking it out for new trips a few times a month like we did the first 2 years. Site # 85 wasn’t worth it we figure, too much work to make it nice.

Here is site # 86 during the heat wave, it’s HUGE, has a large fire pit, a deck and only one neighbor which right now happens to be us in site # 85. I don’t have a picture of site # 145 and I need to go back there to make sure it’s still a site we’d be interested in. I’m told we have first dibs until this Friday.

Here are the pros and cons to leasing at Blackhawk.

PROS:

Very nice campground, friendly people, very large lots and lots of room for visitors. Their pricing is the best in the area for the entire summer and with our usage the electricity has been cheap. We can get a large amount of wood (a tractor loader bucket full) for $45.00 which lasts a long time. The campground is secluded and has a far away feel when we go there, it’s about an hour and 20 minutes to get there.

CONS:

There is virtually no cell phone coverage because the campground is located in a valley. Their internet connection is a 50/50 crapshoot. It seems to be up only when I don’t really need it.    The owners are nice enough but they don’t come off as particularly friendly, it doesn’t seem like they remember you. The *#&$^% walnut trees make the top of the RV black pretty quickly.

I was able to make it work for working remotely this year but it made it stressful at times. Site # 145  is on the side of the park that supposedly doesn’t work off of a repeater but I have no proof of that since the owners don’t seem to know (somebody else works on it). Site # 86 is darn near perfect for having people over and being able to spread out and have fun, it’s also pretty private and the same price as out plain jane site we have now.

Ronda really likes site # 86 and so do I so we think it’s worth it to make a go of it. We may have an issue with our door being lower than the deck but that’s something I can take care of.

Here is a map of the campground with the sites we’re looking at circled in red. Site # 145 has better shade but the site is a bit smaller, I’ll post a picture of it when I go there this Thursday.

Hard to believe another season has almost gone, this is our third season as Class A owners and we have gone out almost every single weekend, does that mean we’re no longer newbs?

9/11/2001 - 11 Years Later – Never Forget

 

The main Government site for 9/11 had a theme “Never Forget!”, that site was removed February of 2009. Why is anybody's guess but in my view the Government has lost sight of what we learned that fateful day… I just hope some how some way the parties in control learn to work together, they aren’t exactly showing us how to work together though, are they. I digress…

Since 2009 new sites have sprung up and gone and new ones take their place. A few years ago http://www.911memorial.org/ was put up and hopefully will remain.

Here is a picture from the memorial website, pretty much sums it up. We are once again in an election year so we hope and pray they are ready.

Today we will watch the memorial/documentary programs, cry a little and pray something like that never happens again.

You See Something Strange Every Trip

On the way home yesterday we pulled onto I88 East and within a mile had to swerve to miss what was left of somebodies AC unit cover. I knew right away it was from an RV. I was averaging 59mph but managed to catch up to the rig, a fifth wheel, minus an AC cover, well, actually some parts were still there because they were still flying off.

I pulled up next to him and honked and he gave me the thumbs up but I managed to signal him to pull over. I walked back to the passenger window and he told me others had told him this as well, so I responded well maybe you should remove the parts that are still lose so people don’t have to swerve around them as I had to.

He replied there's nothing I can do so I’m going to continue on…   I said ok, have a safe trip and left. I agree there is nothing he could do to repair it, but he could have removed the loose plastic parts that were flapping in the wind waiting to tear off and hit a windshield at least!!

Vacation Comes To An End

The campground is emptying out pretty quickly now, I am doing my duties with tanks and cleaning the windshields and checking the engine etc…

Maybe somebody can explain to me why people with diesels feel the need to fire the engines up at 5:30am, rev them up and idle them for 20 minutes only to shut them off until they leave several hours later? There was a Holiday Rambler club here this weekend and most of them only left around 11am this morning yet most of them cranked up their engines at sun up, I believe I understand diesels well enough to know that they don’t need an early morning warm up for leaving 5 hours later.

I finally had gotten some sleep when these guys fired up, let me tell you, 12 diesels running at the same time will wake the dead, or wake a guy who doesn’t sleep well making him one cranky SOB.

I finished writing up the instructions for the lady next door so hopefully now that the campground is almost empty she’ll be able to handle most of the  RV chores alone.

Well, time to flush the tanks and begin heading out, we wanted to wait for the mad dash for the exit to taper off. We’re heading back to Blackhawk and pretty soon we have to commit to one more year there or go back to how we camped before leasing a spot… we aren’t sure yet, what do you guys think?

Ghosts EVERYWHERE!!!!

Ok, so only the power posts are haunted….    or more specifically have high EMF readings. It was fun though even if nothing happened. Ghost Hunters use a KII which seems to have activity everywhere they go, they ask a question and the KII responds… the red light flash light it has was cool though!

So, there appears to be no ghosts in the Geneseo campground, not that we tried very hard to find them. We watched White Noise last week so didn’t try EVP but I’m going to try that tonight, who knows maybe we’ll get something…

Stop laughing!!

 

 

 

You know you secretly hope we find something!