Day 80, Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Little Ocmulgee State Park, McRae, GA, Day 2 - 0 Miles, 2,996.7 Miles for the Trip
The polar vortex has reached McRae. 30°F last night, and only 37°F at noon. I did my morning walk with a knit hat, winter coat & gloves. There are only 5 RVs in the campground, of which at least 3 are hosts. Lots of sun, but it isn't doing much to warm things up. My little electric heater is working hard, but so far the propane furnace, which is set 2°F lower than the electric heater hasn't come on. The high for the day was 48°F.
All the faucets in the campground are dripping. The hosts did that to keep them from freezing. While I didn't hook up my water and am running on the on board water tank, my faucet is one of the few that are true frost proof - no need to drip it. I still didn't hook up because my hose would freeze overnight.
I finished Mike Lawson's The Inside Ring, and downloaded the second in the series, The Second Perimeter. This one allowed downloading to Kindle. No idea how long I'll stick with the series - there are 14 of them. Still listening to Boy's Life by Robert McCammon. I only have 8 days left on the loan, but there are only 2 hours left so I should finish it tomorrow between my morning walk and the drive to Skidway Island State Park.
Around 2:45 a large Class A towing a jeep from Pennsylvania pulled into the campground, so now there are 6 of us in a campground with 60 sites. Around 3:30 I took a bag of trash to the dumpsters and discovered a tent camper pulling a trailer filled with his stuff in one of the sites I couldn't see from mine, so now there are 7 of us here.
The tent camper reminds me of my first camping trip - in 1950 my parents gathered my brother & sister & 5 year old me into a 1938 Plymouth pulling a homemade trailer filled with camping gear, and headed off on a summer long round trip to California and back from NY. That was when route 66 was RT 66. I only remember parts of it such as a miniature swamp cooler attached to the window of the car to help get us across the desert, the firefall in Yosemite, the waves of the Pacific Ocean, having my photo taken with an Indian, and playing with a bobcat kitten. Some of my dad's photos here. While the tent camper here has a much newer car & trailer, it brought back memories.
I called one of the Savannah Walgreens to have a prescription filled. A long time on hold (20 minutes) but I believe it will be ready on Friday. I wish I could re sync my prescriptions so all of them come due on the same day. My home Walgreens will do that, but not when I'm traveling. At one time I had them all together, but with changes & additions, I now have a bunch of different renewal dates.
Dinner was a Marie Callender's Orange Chicken Bowl.
Until Tomorrow -
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