Day 9, Monday, October 28, 2024 - Chester State Park, Chester, SC - 219.7 Miles, 936.3 Miles for the Trip

After my morning (and cold) walk and breakfast I finished packing up the trailer, getting it ready for travel, unhooked the utilities, said good bye to the Guidos, and headed south. Heavy traffic on I 77, stop & go a couple of places. I arrived at Chester State Park around 2:30, and found site 19. No tags on the site & no one in the ranger station, so I just backed into the site & set up. 

The site is on gravel with a tent pad, picnic table & fire ring as well as a lantern hanger. I needed a 3" side to side raise & a 3" drop for the tongue. The rates vary by day. I understand more for the weekends, but for some reason Tuesday is $3.00 more than Monday or Wednesday. If I average the daily rates, including state & local taxes, for the 6 nights I'm here it comes out to $36.52 per night. 

Site 19

After leveling the trailer, I walked down to the lake and around the camping loop (29 sites).

After finishing setting up the trailer I sat outside in the sun enjoying the 65°F afternoon. 

Dinner was a Beautiful Citrus Chicken with Broccoli & Carrots.

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 8

Day 8, October 27, 2024 - Camp Burson, Hungry Mother State Park, Marion, VA, Day 5 - 0 Miles, 716.6 Miles for the Trip

A cool morning; only 52°F at 12:30. After my walk & breakfast changed the sheets on the bed. For those that haven't done that in a fiberglass trailer you have not idea why so many of us wish for a walk around bed. While you don't have the "hop over" problem of night time visits to the bathroom with the north south bed in the 21C, it still has all the difficulties of making the bed that extends to the walls on three sides. You learn to pull up the sheets & blankets while hopping in the air while kneeling on the mattress. 

I started a load of laundry; there are 2 washers, but only one dryer. $1.50 per load for each; a 45 minute run for the dryer. Since someone was using one of the washers, I had to wait a bit for a turn at the dryer, but the people using the other washer were prompt getting their load switched so the wait was only a half hour of so. It only took one 45 minute run on high heat to dry my clothes. I've been in parks where you needed two or three runs to get things dry, so it was much appreciated.

About one third of the park emptied out during the day, but many are staying an extra day or two. The campground hosts are great at cleaning up the sites after people leave. They shut off the breakers, use a leaf blower to clear the leaves from the pad (although at this time of year the pad gets covered in one afternoon) and rakes the gravel smooth. 

I pulled the stakes on my mat & let it dry on the picnic table, Put the grill back in the truck along with the 5 pound propane bottle. By then the mat was dry so it went back in the truck. All I need to do in the morning is the normal stuff to reconnect the trailer, and unhook the utilities. I have a 217 mile drive tomorrow to Chester State Park in South Carolina. While there are a couple of non interstate routes, I am planning on I 81 to I 77 since it avoids the hurricane damaged areas.

Since it is still quite cool and cloudy, we decided to eat dinner in my trailer. Anne is making a shrimp dish. 

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 7

Day 7, October 26, 2024 - Camp Burson, Hungry Mother State Park, Marion, VA, Day 4 - 0 Miles, 716.6 Miles for the Trip

A bit of rain overnight, but only cloudy this morning. At 9:00 coffee & pastries supplied by Escape Trailer Industries gathered a bunch of campers. While most of the food was gone, the gathering was still going at 11:00.

By the way, yesterday around 4:00 I headed for the showers. Individual rooms with a large dressing area. Unfortunately, there is no lip between the shower & the dressing area floor, and although the showerhead is at right angles to the dressing area, the floor still gets wet - no shower curtain. There is a small electric heater on the wall of the dressing area, but pretty anemic. The good - plenty of hot water, a place for your stuff in the shower as well as 2 hooks & a bench in the drying area. Lots of hot water & a standard showerhead. Overall a B.

I didn't do much else for the day other than sitting around reading or listening to my latest Audio book. The audio book is Terry Goodkind's The Girl In The Moon, and the book is Nick Russell's Big Lake Sinner.

At 4:0 I gathered together my pies, table & chairs (and of course, the camera) and headed across the road for the pot luck supper. As usual, far too much food, and all of it good. All three pies went fast.

Dinner was, of course, the pot luck.

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 6

Day 6, October 25, 2024 - Camp Burson, Hungry Mother State Park, Marion, VA, Day 3 - 0 Miles, 716.6 Miles for the Trip

A cold night & morning, 37°F for my morning walk. A couple of folks out & around, but most either still sleeping or bundled up in their trailers. 

I started a Hungry Mother Fiberglass Rally page with lots of photos. A few are here, more at the rally page.

A bunch of us went to the Mi Puerto Mexican restaurant for lunch. I had a Shrimp Chimichanga that was excellent. Filling enough that dinner will be simple.

I stopped at the Food Lion for a few items, then headed back to the campground. Back at the campground, Guido worked on fixing the hole in his Scamp:

Since lunch was dinner, I just had a ham & cheese sandwich & some chips.

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 5

Day 5, October 24, 2024 - Camp Burson, Hungry Mother State Park, Marion, VA, Day 2 - 0 Miles, 716.6 Miles for the Trip

So, we are together again. The Guidos set up; Guido did not enjoy a back in site at night, although he doesn't like them all that much during the day. They didn't hook up anything other than electric since they will need to dump their tanks today.

I did my morning walk around the campground. Doing all the loops is about a mile. They had a culvert collapse going to the first row so they are rerouting trailers into the back way in.

Not a lot of early arrivals. I saw a few Casitas, Escapes, & Guido's Scamp; maybe 10 trailers. Quite a few stick built trailers throughout the park.

I did a speed test on both AT&T & Verizon. Speed doesn't mean all that much here. While AT&T came out at 28.2Mbps down & 6Mbps down, and Verizon showed 29Mbps down & 8.2Mbps up, both are quite variable. Verizon seems to be more reliable, but at times AT&T is faster. I'm running both modems and can switch when necessary. I have lots of data time on Verizon; have not used any before this trip and it rolls over on November 2nd.

After breakfast I started making blueberry pies. Since there were 60 folks planning to attend, I'm making 3 pies. With the cancellations, there may be fewer folks attending, but somehow it all gets eaten.

Well, it is 3:00 and the pies are done. As usual, at least one is messy (but still tastes the same). A little cooler than the last couple of days, but still 64°F outside (71°F in the trailer with the oven hopping between 350°F & 450°F).

Guido is attempting to cover the hole the AAA put in the bottom of his trailer. At Creekside they jacked the trailer on the body, not the frame, and punched a hole in the bottom. They didn't say anything, and it is likely a piece of plywood from the hole was rubbing against the new spare causing the blow out on I 81.

Here is a 2 year old never used until yesterday spare:

The Blown Out Spare

That was about it for the day.  More folks arrived; there are many Casitas, fewer, but many Escapes, a Trillium (pulled by a Tesla) a couple of Olivers, and 3 Scamps.

Dinner was a pork loin, German potato salad & applesauce.

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 4

Day 4, October 23, 2024 - Camp Burson, Hungry Mother State Park, Marion, VA 245.3 Miles, 716.6 Miles for the Trip

When it rains, it pours. On the way down I 81 about 100 miles from Marion, VA the 2 year old never used spare tire on the Guido's Scamp blew. Chunks of rubber going everywhere, but the trailer was stable & Guido pulled well off the road. Since this was the spare, they didn't have anything to replace it. Called AAA & eventually they sent a "Tow Truck" to pick up the trailer. Evidently, there is some damage to the fiberglass; maybe more. 

On The Truck

The Damage

They followed the truck and hope the previous tire can be repaired. As of 6:00 I'm waiting to hear from them.

Since there wasn't anything I could do to help, I continued on to Hungry Mother. Even that had problems. My GPS wanted me to go to Exit 45 but I usually get off at Exit 47. I got off at 47 & once on Rt 11, found a sign saying it was closed at the railroad tracks. Since I didn't remember how far down Rt 11 the railroad tracks were, I turned around, got back on I 81, followed the GPS directions, and drove down to Exit 45. I made it to Rt 11 north, and found it closed well before the entrance to the park. So, back on I 81, exit at 47, and hope I reached the campground road before Ry 11 was closed. It was open to the park road.

I'm in site 38, a water & electric site on gravel with a picnic table and fire ring. While they give you an envelope stuffed with stuff about the park, no receipt. I looked up my reservation, and it looks like I'm paying $43.12 per night.

Me in Site 38

The Guidos Setting Up in the Dark

So, after setting up I made an Impossible Teriyaki Chicken Bowl since it was the first meal to fall out of the freezer when I opened the door. The Guidos arrived at 8:30 and set up in the dark for the first time. I've only done it once, so I can feel for them.

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 3

Day 3, October 22, 2024 - Creekside Campground, Edinburg, VA 183.2 Miles, 471.3 Miles for the Trip

I went out last night an hour after sunset & while the background lights from the campground lighting fixtures made it impossible to see the comet by eye, you could see it on the view screen of the Nikon Z8. Another plus for the electronic viewfinder & monitor on mirrorless cameras.  I still can't get used to the electronic viewfinder, but under night time lighting I would not have been able to see anything using my SLR. I did manage to get a couple of photos, although nothing I'd consider quality. I dragged Anne & Guido out. Guido got a few images as well. Anne got one with her iPhone (she took a photo of the Nikon Z8 monitor).

C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Comet 

An uneventful drive down I 81, although heavy traffic. I tried my Loves's App and got $.10 off per gallon; paid $3.05.

As we were doing the back roads to the campground I noticed that Guido's passenger side trailer tire looked soft. We got to the campground & as he was filling the tire with his compressor the valve stem fell apart. A call to AAA, and after lots of dropped calls & long holds, they said they would be here in 45 minutes. 45 minutes later no sign of them.

Only Flat on the Bottom

AAA did show up, changed the tire to the spare which is a 175 and the current tires are a 185. The difference is small enough that he should be OK till we get to Marion, the home of Hungry Mother.

The Guidos are in site 29 & I'm in site 30. Both are on grass, water & electric, and along side a small creek for $37.86 per site. 

The Guidos in Site 29

Me in Site 30

Dinner was burgers; Bubba burgers for Anne & Guido & a Butterball turkey burger for me. Some Kraft Deluxe White Cheddar & Garlic & Herbs mac & cheese as a side dish along with some canned pears.

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 2

Day 2, October 21, 2024 - Twin Grove RV Resort, Pine Grove, PA 159.5 Miles, 288.1 Miles for the Trip

We were off at the crack of 11:30, heading down I 81 into Pennsylvania and the Twin Grove RV Resort. We have stayed there a number of times, often in the same sites, 8 & 10. The Guidos are in 8 & I'm in 10. Gravel full hookup sites that are fairly level side to side, but require a tongue jack lift of 4.5". I managed to do that while still attached to the trailer. Not cheap at $66.15 per night including a $15.00 reservation fee.

Me in Site 10

The Guidos in Site 8

After setting up we sat around reading and munching on grapes & potato sticks (the good & the bad).

While I was hoping for a sighting of the A3 comet, even with the clear skies we have trees to the west of us. I'll give it a try anyway since is is suppose to be higher in the sky at this time.

Dinner was grilled brats & Bush beans.

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2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 1

Day 1, October 20, 2024 - The Guidos, Binghamton, NY 128.6 Miles, 128.6 Miles for the Trip

I finished packing, hooked up the trailer, said goodbye to Kyle, then headed out around 12:00. First stop as usual was the nearest CAT scale. The combined weight of the truck & trailer was 11020, and the trailer axle 4480. A second weighing with the truck alone showed 6000. Subtract the truck weight from the combined weight to get the trailer weight - 5020. Tongue weight is the trailer weight minus the axle weight or 560. So, the trailer is 10 pounds heavier than my last cross country trip & the tongue weight is 40 pounds heavier. The truck is exactly the same.

An uneventful drive down I 81 to Binghamton. I arrived at 3:30, just as Guido was heading out to wash the trailer. I parked, gathered the clothes & stuff for tonight and headed into the house. 

Parked at the Guidos

I started my trip spreadsheet that I use to keep track of campground costs, fuel costs & propane expenses. No good reason, other than it also gives me a quick list of the campgrounds I've strayed at. I also started Day 1 (this page) of the Southeast trip journal.

Dinner was a chicken Speedie salad.

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Early Days, Part 3

October 19, 2024:

The truck & trailer are three quarters packed. Tomorrow morning I'll add the last minute things that I'm still using, then head to Binghamton & the Guidos. Today the projects include cutting down the asparagus fonds, and the butterfly bush. Both are a bit early, but I won't be here after the first frost. 

Yesterday I changed the taillights on the trailer. Some of the driver's side individual LEDs in the taillight failed. I purchased an adapter that lets me use the screw holes from the original lamps with the new, different sized replacements. The original fixtures are no longer available. The only difficult part was the short wires left coming out of the trailer. Tough to strip the old insulation, but it is done. 

I also did one last mowing of the leaves. Most are still on the trees but I managed to grind up what was on the ground. 

While Hungry Mother State Park is open, they still don't have phone or internet service. Some rally attendees needed to cancel their reservations because they are from the areas that got hit hardest by the hurricanes, and still can't get to their trailers or are too busy taking care of the damage to their homes. Canceling has been a problem because the reservations were made through the campground itself (as a favor to the rally). They can't be canceled by the Reserve America site, and because the phones are out at the park, can't be canceled at the office. Hopefully things will settle down next week.

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Early Days, Part 2

October 13, 2024:

Not too much to update - Hungry Mother State Park is now open so the rally is on, and Aiken State Park is also open. At this point only the General Coffee State Park in Georgia is still closed. I have reservations for December 16 - 22 and hope it will be open by then.

Too early for packing, but I did fire up the refrigerator and will start moving stuff into the trailer during the week. It has cooled off this week - 47°F at noon today. I am running the mini split AC in the living room on heat set for 70°F, keeping the bedroom at the other end of the house at a comfortable sleeping temperature of 65°F. Dinner tonight will be Kyle's favorite - spaghetti and meatballs, all from scratch. We will also have chocolate cake to celebrate his birthday; still a week away, but I'll be leaving the day before his actual birthday.

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Early Days - Trip to the Southeast

October 6, 2024:

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I've decided to skip a trip to the southwest and stay here in the east. I still want to avoid freezing cold days, so I'm heading to the southeast. The current plan (and reservations) are for a 178 day trip bouncing around northern Florida, Georgia, South Carolina & Alabama state parks.

While today is 2 weeks before I plan to leave for the winter, it appears I may have picked the wrong year for staying in the east.  

Hurricane Helene has done quite a bit of damage all over the area I planned to stay.  The usual start to my winter snowbirding is a trip to the Hungry Mother State Park in Virginia for a fiberglass rally.  The Guidos usually make it the last trip of the season.  We are not sure it will happen - Hungry Mother suffered enough storm damage to close, and will wait until October 14th to decide whether to open.  My schedule (and reservations) has me leaving Oswego on the 20th, so not a lot of time to make changes.  If the rally is canceled, the Guidos will head to Michigan to see great grandkids, but I plan to do my winter trip anyway.  I don't have anything scheduled for the eastern part of North Carolina or southwestern Tennessee, the most heavily damaged areas.

I planned the trip with RV Life's Trip Wizard, and a couple of days after the hurricane checked and the next 5 parks after Hungry Mother were all closed.  I rechecked this weekend and it is down to 2 closed parks before Christmas, and one after, the first of which, Lake Wateree, has already canceled my reservation & credited my credit card with the full amount of reservation.   

I assume that if they opened the park they want visitors - I don't want to be any kind of a burden on the folks that had so much devastation. 

I found another state park within my normal driving distance (under 250 miles) that was open & made new reservations for the first stop after Hungry Mother. If Hungry Mother stays closed, I'll need to find something between Creekside Campground in Virginia & Chester State Park in South Carolina.  

 So, as of today, only one of the early parks is still closed; Aiken State Park in South Carolina.  I have a reservation for 3 days, November 3-5 so I hope it opens before then. 

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A Short Trip To Letchworth State Park, Day 4 (Last Day)

 Check out was 11:00 so we were not in a hurry.  After fighting the bees that seemed to be in love with the front storage box cover, I finished hooking up and headed out.  I bypassed the dump station since 5 RVs were waiting, and I only peed in the toilet a couple of times (I know, way too much information!)  I'll dump into a pail and add it to my septic tank through a vent.

An easy drive other than getting stuck behind a large stick built trailer that was stuck behind a small SUV that insisted on driving 50MPH on NY 104, a mostly 2 lane road with lots of curves but a 55MPH limit where almost everyone does 60MPH.  They finally turned off 9 miles from home.

I shut down the refrigerator & unpacked the trailer since it will be 3 weeks before I head out for the Hungry Mother Rally & on to my winter snowbirding.

Dinner will be a shrimp dinner at Rudy's.  Since it is Sunday, even on their Fall schedule, they should be open.

Until mid October...

A Short Trip To Letchworth State Park, Day 3

 Much warmer last night, only down to 60°F and the electric heater didn't run. Richard (Telescopist on the Escape forum) never showed up.  He is either in a different part of the campground or our schedules are mixed up.

A quiet morning.  I walked around the 500 loop for my morning walk  Didn't see Richard's Escape 21, but there was a Casita parked in the loop.  

After breakfast & coffee I spent the rest of the morning sitting at the Guido trailer reading.  Eventually, I decided to head to the park visitor center for a new hat.  My previous Letchworth had mildewed, and nothing I did could get rid of the spots.  As long as I was getting a new hat, I also bought a new "T" shirt.

After that I stopped at Inspiration Point, one of the stops that lets you see the Middle & part of the Upper Falls.  It is a great location to watch the hot air balloons that often fly over the park, but none this afternoon.

Middle Falls

Middle & Upper Falls & the Railroad Bridge

After that it was back to my chair and more reading.  I finished listening to Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes, but because the internet is so slow here was unable to download a new book.  Looks like I'll be listening to either the radio or Sirius XM radio on the drive home tomorrow.

Around 5:00 it started light rain.  Strong thunderstorms were predicted, but so far only distant thunder.  We are planning chicken tacos for dinner, an outside meal, so I hope the rain either holds off or stops before 6:00 or so.

Well, the rain held off so it was chicken tacos for dinner.

A Short Trip To Letchworth State Park, Day 2

 A cool night at 54°F by 6:00AM.  Even ran the electric heater a bit.  Went for my morning walk wearing shorts & a sweatshirt.

Spent the morning sitting around reading.  Current book it Terry Goodkind's Temple of the Winds, #4 in his 11 part "Truth" series.  Each book runs a little under 1000 pages so it will take a long time to get through all of them.  I'm also listening to Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes.  I think I may have read it when it first came out, but that was in 2014, long enough ago to have forgotten enough to make it listenable.

Around 2:30 I started the baby back ribs.  The Napoleon TravelQ 285 grill has 2 burners so you can do indirect heating for ribs, roasts, etc.  A big advantage over the Weber Q grill.  It is heavier, and a bit larger, but the advantage of 2 separate burners makes it well worth it.  The ribs came out a bit dry, but it could be the supplier - I prefer the ribs I get from a real butcher at Bosco's in Oswego, but they were out so I had to get them from Price Chopper.

Anyhow, dinner was baby back ribs, corn on the cob and a fruit salad made by Anne.

Until tomorrow - 

A Short Trip To Letchworth State Park, Day 1

 We had a free weekend so both the Guidos & I decided to spend a couple of days at Letchworth State Park.  Richard (Telescopist on the forum) member of the Escape Trailer Owners forum is going to meet us here tomorrow.

Letchworth is about a 115 mile drive from Oswego, mostly on NY 104 & I390.  A very large park that centers around the Genesee River.  It has 3 large waterfalls, Morris Dam, and a very large campground with 8 camping loops.  The sites are electric only or dry, with one bathroom per loop with water & showers.

I'm in site 312, the Guidos in 314.  Both are somewhat sloped front to back, not too bad side to side.  Sites are gravel with a picnic table & fire pit.  $30.08 per night including a $7.25 reservation fee. The numbering system requires getting used to.  They are all one way loops, and the numbering is even sites on the left & odd sites on the right.  It isn't unusual for site 306 to be across the street from 313 so if you are trying to get sites together you really need to look at the map.

Me in Site 312

The Guidos in Site 314

It was 6:00 by the time we were both set up, so we had dinner - The Guidos went to lunch at the Olive Garden & they had a deal that you could get an additional meal for $6.00.  The meal came with a huge salad that was a meal in itself.  I asked for Shrimp Alfredo which I discovered wasn't one of the $6.00 meals, but was very good.  Lots of left overs.

Trip to the Algonac (Lockport) Rally & the Niagara Wine Escape Rally, Day 14

Monday, September 16, 2024, Home, Oswego, NY - 159.7 Miles, 750.7 Miles for the trip.

Even though there were few of us left, we did have a campfire last night. Since the official fire tender, Alf's daughter Elizabeth had left, I pulled out the "Super Starter", my propane weed burner to start the fire. We sat around & talked for a bit, then I headed in to post the pages & do my 2nd batch of eye drops.

I did end up with a "rare" photo - the photographer! Thanks to Lorraine.

A good trip home. A fairly long wait at the border, including them closing the line we were in, but someone came out and moved posts around so that we ended up in the slot next to the one we started in. Very short questioning at the booth. I parted with the Guidos at the border since I was heading northeast and they were going southeast. Evidently the scheduled-by-Garmin route from I90 to home up NY 34 to NY 104 was closed so it routed me up I390 to NY 104 just east of Rochester. More time on 2 lane roads, but a steady 60MPH most of the way home. I arrived around 3:00. 

Parked the trailer and only took the daily essentials since I'm heading to Letchworth State Park on Thursday. Overall mileage a bit less than last year since Lakeport is closer to the border than Algonac. Adding this trip makes the trailer mileage 56,456.9 since purchasing in 2017, and 1201 nights in the trailer.

Dinner was my usual "home from a trip" meal at Rudy's - this time a Red Plate - fried shrimp, fries & Macaroni salad.

Until the Next Trip - 

Trip to the Algonac (Lockport) Rally & the Niagara Wine Escape Rally, Day 13

Sunday, September 15, 2024, Riverside Park Motel & Campground, Niagara Falls, Canada, Day 5 - 0 Miles, 591 Miles for the trip.

A quiet day with most of the rally folks heading out. There are still about 5 trailers here, most leaving tomorrow.

Some statistics:

A total of 28 sites with 3 Trilliums, 3 Bolers, 1 Egg Camper, 2 BigFoot 5th wheels, 2 Bigfoot pull behind, 15 Escapes (1-17, 7-5.0, 2-19, 5-21), 1 tent & 1 other.

The dates for 2025 are September 12-14.

Dinner was cheese brats.

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Trip to the Algonac (Lockport) Rally & the Niagara Wine Escape Rally, Day 12

Saturday, September 14, 2024, Riverside Park Motel & Campground, Niagara Falls, Canada, Day 4 - 0 Miles, 591 Miles for the trip.

A little cooler than last night, down to 55°F by early morning. I walked north along the parkway until I reached the cormorant roost.

After breakfast I dropped a couple of things at the blue tarp, a give away location. Managed to lose one item, but I believe my MIMO antenna is going to travel with me forever.

After showing the trailer a couple of times, I walked around doing some morning photos:

While there were not many takers on my "blue tarp stuff, lost of stuff traded hands.

The pot luck was wonderful, as usual. The raffle of stuff made 3 rounds before everything was gone. After that folks gathered around the campfire.

Dinner was, of course, the pot luck. All three pies as well as a couple of peach pies went!

Until Tomorrow - 

Trip to the Algonac (Lockport) Rally & the Niagara Wine Escape Rally, Day 11

 Friday, September 13, 2024, Riverside Park Motel & Campground, Niagara Falls, Canada, Day 3 - 0 Miles, 591 Miles for the trip.

A warm night - the electric heater never came on although I spent the night switching between sheet only, blanket & comforter. 

I spent the morning & earlyv afternoon baking pies. I thought I had 3 disposable pie pans, but found only 2. Luckily, Loraine was heading out to do some shopping & bought me a 6 pack (of pie plates, not beer). As usual, each pie baked differently. The last was the neatest, while the middle pie is messy. They all taste the same.

I made a round of the campground for some photos. Lots of new arrivals - we have 2 Bolers, 2 Trilliums, an Egg Camper, 2 BigFoot 5th wheels as well as a couple of 25's, and many Escapes ranging from a 17, lots of 19's, 21, and many, many 5.0s.  More photos at the Niagara Wine Escape Rally page.

Dinner was left over Chicken Marsala with an Ontario Peach.

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Trip to the Algonac (Lockport) Rally & the Niagara Wine Escape Rally, Day 10

Thursday, September 12, 2024, Riverside Park Motel & Campground, Niagara Falls, Canada, Day 2 - 0 Miles, 591 Miles for the trip.

While warmer, it still cooled down to 55°F last night. At least the electricity stayed on. 

A quiet day. I did my mile walk heading south on the Niagara River Parkway walkway that parallels the road. After breakfast I read blogs & forums & enjoyed my morning coffee. After that it was sitting outside under the Guido's awning. Took a little break from sitting to have a pork loin sandwich using leftovers from yesterday's dinner. It got up to 82°F so the shade was welcome. Around 4:00 a cool(er) breeze started but it was still warm enough that I am tempted to fire up the AC before going to bed. It is still 81°F in the trailer.

I did a walk around the campground with the camera. Mostly Escapes & Bigfoots. Lorraine says she gets her best afternoon naps in the truck:

More at either today's LakeshoreImages page or the 2024 Niagara Wine Escape Rally page.

The AT&T cell service here is interesting, at least for the internet. I did a speed test using Safari & Speakeasy, my usual app for testing internet speed. 45Mbps down & 12Mbps up. When on a website owned by RV Life (such as the Escape forum of Fiberglass RV forum) they ask you to do a speed test, the results of which are posted in their reviews of campgrounds. The RV Life speed test showed .56Mbps up & 0Mbps down, both of which are wrong. On top of that, using my iPhone 13 and a speed test not using WiFi but directly connected to AT&T, I got 450Mbps down & 25Mbps up. My AT&T cell router is old and an older SIM card so I'm sure it is missing some frequencies that the cell phone covers, but that sure indicates that I should upgrade the modem.

Dinner was Chicken Marsala with Oreo cookies for dessert.

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