Winter Excursion 9, Day 291

We left camp this morning for our drive home, but first we stopped at the Welding Shop to get the battery deck repaired. It took about 1.5 hours, but the welder did a great job.

The 200 mile drive home went by fast with no issues. Here's the Lewis County line on RT 177. Welcome Home!

The house seems in good shape. There is plenty of dead bugs, but very little sign of mice. We will stay in the camper for a few days while we get everything cleaned up.

I'll type up and post the trip stats in a day or so.

It's good to be home!

Winter Excursion 9, Day 290

Woke up this morning to find a lake outside the camper at the water pedestal. Seems the underground line (pipe) was broken. We called the Rangers and maintenance was able to turn it off. Later in the day a crew came to repair the line. They had to turn off water to the entire camping loop. Luckily we had filled our fresh water tank yesterday. 

Our friends left this morning. We will see them when we leave for our winter trip this year.

We took a drive to the Shoe Trees and to get some gas for the drive home tomorrow.

Winter Excursion 9, Day 289

Today was a hot one. Temps were in the 90s by late morning. These temps are forecast to break tomorrow. We should get some cooler weather.

We just hung out a camp today. I did get a short bike ride in.

We had dinner with our friends and once again sat and yakked for awhile. It's been a fun few days with them. They leave in the morning. We will see them again when we start our winter trip in October.

Late evening we put everything away as rain is forecast for tomorrow morning.  

Winter Excursion 9, Day 288

We spent most of the day in camp. The weather moderated a little as the humidity is not so bad.

We did head out to a cider mill that we'd visited six yeas ago. The cider is still cold and delicious. We sat out back in the shade and enjoyed the breeze coming of Lake Ontario. 

We got a pic of this crazy thing on the way back to camp. I'm not sure what it is, but I'll bet the neighbors love it! 

We had a nice dinner with our camping friends and sat outside yakking until almost dark. It's been a nice day.

Winter Excursion 9, Day 287

This morning I called a welding shop in the area and explained what had happened with the battery box. He asked if I could get some pics so he could see the damage. After he saw the pics we made an appointment for Monday morning (the day we leave here). I won't even have to unhook the camper for him to do some welding repair. His shop is large enough for me to pull the truck and camper into it!

We spent the day in camp yakking with our friends. 

We keep moving around where we are sitting to keep in the shade. The sites we are in have no trees so we are using the campers for shade depending on where the sun is!

We smoked a small brisket for dinner. It took 12 hours, but the wait was worth it. It came out great.

Winter Excursion 9, Day 286

 It's moving day and it started out just fine.

This little guy was in the dumpster when I threw the trash out.

I put that stick in so he could climb out which he did after finishing his breakfast.

We left camp around 1000 enroute to our new campground. While we were on I-90 heading east a car pulled up beside us and motioned that something was wrong with the camper. I rolled down my window and he shouted that our battery box was dragging on the ground! I immediately pulled over to the shoulder, put on the four ways and found this.

Two of the factory weld weld joints on the driver side had failed and the whole thing was dragging on the highway. I called 911 and got a policeman to sit behind us on the shoulder with his lights flashing. With traffic whizzing by at 70 mph I disconnected and removed the batteries and strapped the the broken battery box frame to the camper "A" frame. I was able to drive to the next exit, but there was no repairmen in the area. We ended up driving to our new campground with no further issues. All said and done, We were lucky!

Here's the new campsite at Lakeside State Park, PA.

We are meeting camping friends here. We will be here for five days and then head for home.

Winter Excursion 9, Day 285

After breakfast we did one more load of laundry. That should be it until we get home next week! Hooray! 

There is rain and thunderstorms forecast for tonight and tomorrow morning so we started packing up all the outside stuff. We leave here in the morning and we hate packing up in the rain. Maybe the "Weather Guessers" will be wrong as usual.

We ordered pizza for our last night here. Zeppe's has a very interesting crust. The call it "Zig-Zag Crust".

It's actually really good pizza.