Winter Excursion 10, Day 223

Jean and Chris made s super good breakfast of homemade hash and eggs. We were all stuffed when we finished breakfast.

After breakfast we all loaded up and drove to Oregon Hills Winery. We did a few tastings and picked up a couple of bottles.

Back a camp we enjoyed the afternoon weather. Bob and Marie made a nice dinner of sausage with onions, peppers, and all the trimmings. They even had pickled eggs!

I think we were all tired and the party broke up by 2000. Cath and I were in bed by 2100! 

 

Winter Excursion 10, Day 222

Cath and I were in charge of dinner for the group today. We are having Chicken Gyros and a Greek salad to go with them. Cath spent the day making tzatziki, marinating the chicken, preparing the salad, and just organizing everything. My job was to set up the Blackstone. This task turned into almost an all day affair. I got everything set up by noon and then started to hook up the propane. Problem was I could not find the adapter to hook the gas into the flattop! I know it was here somewhere as we had it hooked up the whole time we were hosting, but I could not find it (I still haven't)! I finally drove the 20 miles to Lowes and picked up a new hose and adapter. Back at camp I had to remove one of our propane bottles to be able to use my new hose. I finally got the flattop going by mid afternoon.

The meal turned out to be a big success! Later in the evening Cath and I spent time by the campfire again until almost dark. It's been a fun day!

Winter Excursion 10, Day 221

We all went to Rosie's, a local breakfast joint this morning. The food was good as usual.

After breakfast Chis and Jean and Cath and I headed to the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum about 45 minutes from camp.

We spent a few hours there. It was really interesting. It is all about the lumber industry in north central Pennsylvania from the 1700s to present day.

It was well worth the drive and we all had a good time.

Back at camp we decided to all go out to dinner as there was a severe thunderstorm watch in effect.

The storms never happened, but the restaurant/bar we went to had some of the best bar food we've ever had! I had brisket quesadillas and Cath had a brisket BLT.

Back at camp we all sat by the campfire till almost dark. It's been a good day! 

Winter Excursion 10, Day 220

Once again the weather is staying really nice.

This morning I finished setting everything up outside. We have a really nice site and if we come back here we will want Site #28!

Cath and I did some shopping later this morning and picked up the stuff we will need for our two meals. We are having Sloppy Joe's for 7 this evening.

We played a little trick on Bob & Marie. They left to do some errands and Chris, Jean, and I took all their firewood and put it on Chris and Jean's site which is right next to Bob and Marie. When they got back they didn't even notice! The six of us spent the afternoon at our camp and around 1700 I finally asked Bob if we should build a campfire. He said sure and went to his site to get some wood. We had left one piece and he realized right away what we had done. We all got a good laugh that it took him all afternoon to realize he had only one piece of firewood! 

Winter Excursion 10, Day 219

We didn't leave Caledonia State Park until almost 1000. We made the short 200 mile drive to our new campground, Ives Run near Wellsboro, PA. This will be our last campground for this years trip. We will be here for 6 nights.

One of our camping friends, Bob & Marie, were already here. We did a quick setup and then spent the afternoon trading stories and lies.

Our other camping friends arrived around 1530. We helped them set up as they have a brand new camper and were having a few issues with the new leveling system.

We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening catching up with everyone's news.  

Winter Excursion 10, Day 218

This morning I was sitting outside enjoying the weather and watching a neighbor two sites down pack up. After a while they got into the truck and started to leave. I heard a very loud noise (bang) and looked their way and saw the camper nose down and half out of the site. I walked over and saw that they had forgotten to put the large pin into the receiver to hold the hitch. When they started moving forward the hitch came out of the receiver, but the safety chains still held the camper to the truck! The jack head crashed into the tailgate and was destroyed. They were both very upset, wanted to cancel their plans for today, and call a mobile repairman. I told them that was not necessary and then helped them use the trailer jack manually (they didn’t know this was possible). In about 20 minutes I had them all hooked up again and they hit the road. They will need a new jack and will have to get the tailgate repaired or replaced.

The rest of the day was uneventful! We played some cards and packed up what little we had gotten out at this campground. We will be leaving here tomorrow for our last campground of this year’s trip and to meet some camping friends for a week.

Winter Excursion 10, Day 217

We slept in a little and then sat outside with the neighbors and yakked until almost 1300. Our neighbors are retired Air Force and we had a lot in common with them.

They have a Ford F250 very similar to our new one. He and I spent time going over some of the controls in the new Sync system. It made me anxious to get home to our new one.

We ran to the store in the afternoon for a few things and visited one of the local Country Stores.

Back at camp we played some cards, had a nice dinner, and hit the rack.