Trip home to get grand daughter

We got up early and got on the road by 6.30 am. We are on another road trip to get our grand daughter Hailey!! Yes, grandma and Papa are so excited she will be spending several weeks with us before she starts school.

We ran some errands and then picked her up and stopped to see our youngest son Gabe and then it was back on the road. We were stuck in traffic for over an hour in St. Louis at the West Florissant exit .. there was a wreck.

After finally getting through all the traffic we finally arrived home around 9 pm. It’s been a long day but worth it.

A busy day

Today has been a busy day. We got around and then loaded the green 4 wheeler as it’s getting new tires. After we got the tires on we then headed to the local arctic cat dealer. We ended up leaving the bike there as it’s not wanting to start.

Then it was a trip to Wal-mart to pick up a few things which ended up costing $95! Ughh it sure doesn’t take long. 3 bags is all we had .. grrr

Then hubby went fishing and i just relaxed a bit and played online. Later hubby came back and then we went to do our laundry .. yes that dreaded task needed to be done.

At least we did get spend a few hours sitting outside relaxing and visiting with friends.

Moved back to Lonesome Pines

We got up early and headed to Lonesome Pines campground to get our new spot secured. Then it was back to Wilder to finish putting the slides in and unhooking hookups and hooking up to roll.

Here is where our home will sit for around 30 days before we move again.

I have a large backyard! The dogs will have lots of room to explore and potty area. Plus we have a fire pit for when the grand daughter comes to visit. We do get some afternoon sun where the 4 wheelers and truck are parked but i have shade under my awning .. I have several blinds up so i can see outside which i love. When my blinds are down the walls seem to cave in on me even though i am living in much living space with our new home. We have a nice breeze and i the wifi is working!! Wifi is a big thing for me … i love having internet access inside of my home. We get 13 TV channels on our antenna so that makes hubby happy.

Getting ready to move

Here is our campsite in Wilder. We are moving in the morning.

Here is a view of the stream in front of where we are parked.

Here is hubby doing what he loves to do here .. yes .. fishing!!

As you can see from the picture in the evening it gets foggy from the cool stream.

It’s still Hot!!

I haven’t posted in a week because once again not really much to post about. It’s been hot here. Too hot! Although looking at the national weather map it’s been hot most places.

We had been told the spot we are on here in Wilder was a prime spot. Well it’s not my type of prime spot!!

As you can see in this picture i took a few days ago It is a pretty view early in the morning and just before dark but once the sun hits and you have to close the blinds. I'm ready to move. We do have morning shade until around 9 am, but once the sun hits it’s very hot here until late in the evening! It is down by the stream but you can’t really see the water from our view. It has that small ground rock that comes inside and gets into everything.

The humidity is worse near the spring as well and in the morning when you get up everything is dripping wet from the dew.

The rules state that you can stay 30 or 60 days (depending on your pad) and then you have to move out of that campground for 4 days before you move back. Tomorrow our 4 days are up and I'm going to insist that we look for a new spot. I prefer Lonesome Pines as 50 amps are available anywhere you park and when the wifi is working that is a added plus. Lonesome Pines is the only campground that offers wifi. Plus at least in Lonesome Pines we got about 6 channels and here we get 1, not much to chose from with it being so hot you can not really stand to be outside.

Let’s just say I'm ready to spend the money and order satellite TV and get a air card! Hope your all staying cool and having a great week.

A Friend Passes

Today is a bit of sad day. We got a call from friends in Mississippi that the camp host there passed away this morning. His wife passed away last spring before we left. We saw him this spring and he looked bad and could barely talk because he gasped for air.

They found out a few weeks ago he was in stage 4 of lung cancer. He hadn’t seen his son in over 12 yrs and he was on his way to see him. When he arrived our friend Bill and his son found him on the bathroom floor dead.

We are sad for his family but we know that he missed his wife very much. He is in a better place now but our hearts are sad. We are thankful we were able to see him in May.

Later in the afternoon we took the red bike into get new tires. We were tired of having to put air in them everyday. Next week the green bike will get a new set as well (they had to be ordered).

Later that night we got another call from our friends in Mississippi and they wanted to let us know they were safely in a motel room hiding out while tropical storm Bonnie decided what she was going to do. Were praying for all of our friends in Mississippi that Bonnie takes it easy on them.

Moved to Wilder

Here at the ranch they have 2 types of campsites for members to park on. 30 day and 60 day pads. The 60 day pads are hard to get as the full-timers that live here year round like to trade places with other full-times. We don’t mind the 30 day pads because by 30 days I'm ready to move to a new spot anyway.

Since we have our new rig we have found a bit of difficulty in finding spots large enough and finding 50 amps is the most difficult. Lonesome pine campground is all 30/50 amps but Wilder, Hill Country, Foggy, Melody, and Powder Mill only have a limited amount of 50 amps. Powder Mill only has 2 true 50 amps and the camp host is on 1 of them. The other is next to the camp host and our campers would be almost touching side to side. I do not like that!!

We had been riding around and looking at the 50 amp sites and Hill Country had several but we were not due to move until July 26th. Well Tuesday night we decided to go out riding again and thought well since the weekend was coming up it might be best to move before then. The 50 amps in Hill Country were all taken, Powder Mill was out as i don’t enjoying be that close to my neighbor. Melody Lane campsites are so small there is no way we’d even try to take our new rig there. We found 2 nice spots in Wilder and so we agreed the next morning we’d get up and take a 4 wheeler down and save our spot.

Well when we got there can you believe both spots were taken! So I decided to drive by one of the prime spots in Wilder to see if by chance it was open and it was! I had wanted to park on this site all last year and could never get it.

Just my luck so we parked the 4 wheeler and went to hook up the camper and moved to our new spot.