Winter Excursion 4, Day 168

We left Candy Hill in the morning at 0800 and drove the whole way home, 460 miles. We decided not to stay at Montrose Campground as the weather was perfect today, although a little cold. As in years past the snow greeted us going over Tug Hill. Welcome to Lewis County!

All is well at the house. We have some cleaning up to do as the ladybugs and mice had a party while we were gone.
So here are the stats for this years trip.
We stayed at 19 different campgrounds, but had 10 reservations canceled due to the Covid-19 virus.
We drove a total of 9272.2 miles.
The camper now has a total of 22045.8 miles on it (in three years)!
Average MPG was 10.3 for the whole trip (towing and when not). So we used 900.2 gals of gas, at $2.25/gal (estimate) we spent $2045 on gas! The lowest we saw for a gas price was $1.44/gal in Virginia, although in some states it is much lower.
Here's a pic of our route this year.

It was a good trip until March. Then Social Distancing came into being and everything was closed. We pretty much hung out at the camper during March and April.
We are already planning next year's trip and have half of our reservations already made.
Next blog entry will be on 13 Jul 20 as we are hoping to attend the Chenango Valley FROG Fest (FROG = Forest River Owners Group), but we worry that this event will be canceled.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 167

This is our goodbye pic from Candy Hill Campground.

We spent the day getting ready to leave in the morning.
Take out pizza for dinner, a little TV, then early to bed.
All is still well in the Boss camp.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 166

It rained most of the night and was really heavy early this morning. Got a free car wash! We spent the afternoon under a tornado watch. Had some very heavy thundershowers, but no tornados or strong winds.
Pic of the day is the office and store here at the campground.

We just hung out all day practising our social distancing skills. We are getting to be pros!

Winter Excursion 4, Day 165

Happy Easter to all!
The bunny showed up this morning and this is what I found on the table!

After breakfast Cath made a really nice mini Apple Pie! Here it is without it's top.

And here it is ready for the oven.

And the finished product! I can't wait until desert tonight and coffee in the morning!

I had to add this shot of Kaylee I took. She looks like she's winking, but really she's just waking up from a nap.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 164

We stayed in camp and watched TV most of the day.
Took Kaylee for her afternoon walk and got the pic of the day. This is her favorite place in the field where we let her run. It's just a vegetation trash pile, tree roots and such, but it has a few groundhogs and some mice. She thinks she's hunting...LOL!
You can see more of the stored trailers in the back ground and the golf course behind that.

Dinner, some shows, then off to bed.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 163

I got up early this morning and went to the local Walmart to stock up on groceries. I was back at the camper by 0830. Shopping is a new adventure now, lines, masks, and distancing. Hope it all ends in the near future.
Later we had to take a short ride to TSC for dog food. We drove through Old Town Winchester. It is very interesting and one day we will come back to explore it when everything is open. On the way home we ran into some snow!
Pic of the day is the field at the campground where we let Kaylee run. She loves her daily run and lets us know when it's time to go. The wind is still howling, but forecast to calm down this evening.

They store lots of campers here also. The golf course is behind the campers in the right of the pic.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 162

We had thunderstorms again early this morning. Afterward the wind started. We had gusts up to 55 mph! It was enough to shake the camper and the slideout even lifted up once! The wind blew some dead limbs off the tree where the truck is parked. These limbs could not have missed the truck by more than an inch.
We are running out of things to use for the pic of the day, but here's one at the campground pavilion.

More thunderstorms in the late afternoon and then temps took a nosedive. We will be home next week so we better get used to cold temps again.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 161

We woke this morning around 0330 to some fairly intense thunderstorms. The phones sounded the warnings. The wind was enough to shake the camper. Kaylee hated the thunder. Cath and I fell back to sleep afterward and didn't get up until 0830!
The day turned out really nice and we got our walk in the afternoon. Temps were in the low 70s.
We got the pic of the day on our walk. The campground owner lives at the campground in a really nice house. This garden is in his front yard!

Everything is fine with us. We will have to go to a grocery store soon and a TSC as Kaylee is also running low on food and God Forbid she runs out of bones!

Winter Excursion 4, Day 160

Here is a PVC sculpture/play toy. You are supposed to put the golf balls in the top and see where they come out at the bottom. It kept me entertained for most of the afternoon until the rain started! 

Kaylee got her walk, we got our TV fix. Staying at home is really exciting!

Winter Excursion 4, Day 159

Once again we behaved and hung at camp all day. Took Kaylee for her obligatory walk/run and snapped the pic of the day. This campground also sells golf carts as there is a course right next to it. Cath picked out this red one. You can see our camper just over her shoulder if you zoom in.

From the highway you can see all these carts for sale.

Same routine: cards, TV, and dinner. All is well in the Boss camp.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 158

Pic of the day is from the mining sluice again. This time I've got a stick of dynamite!

As you can see Kaylee is fine. We hung at camp all day and we had a little rain this evening.
We had a great video chat with the Kiddos. Glad everyone is OK.
Stay home, take care!

Winter Excursion 4, Day 157

We haven't shown a pic of Spike lately, so here he is! He's getting big. We will probably have to replant him when we get home on 17 April.

We took a drive west into West Virginia today. Found a Walmart with some Kleenex and a few other things. We felt sort of funny with our NY tags, so we stayed in the truck all the time except for the quick trip into Walmart.
Back at camp, here's the pic of the day. This CG has a nice sluice for the kids. They sell the median in the little camp store.

All is well, weather has been good. Social Distancing is in full effect!

Winter Excursion 4, Day 156

Another day at the campground. We did not leave today.
I talked to the owners and asked if there was anything I could do to help. He said "split some wood". Here's the result! Kaylee helped also. Cath slept in.

Cath made a super dinner: Creamy Garlic Bacon Pork Chops. It's from the Southern Cast Iron Cookbook, April 2020 Vol 6 Issue 2.
We are having steak for dinner tomorrow and need to do a survey. I say salad and french fries with steak. Cath says Wild Mushroom and Herb rice, no french fries! I say un-American! LOL...STAY SAFE!

Winter Excursion 4, Day 155

We left camp this morning to do some grocery shopping. Got everything we wanted except paper products. The shelves for that are still empty.
Pic of the day stars the Crazy Granddad! I always wanted to be an engineer!

That's our camper to the back left of the train.

Other campers continue to come in everyday and most only stay overnight. Cards, people watching, and TV watching, is our new normal routine!

Winter Excursion 4, Day 154

Here's that Crazy Grandma again kissing a forsythia bush! Even the look on Kaylee's face says "What are you doing!"

We hung out at the camper all day. Got in a few walks for Kaylee, watched TV and cooked. Such is our life for the next few weeks....LOL.

Winter Excursion 4, Day 153

Today's pic is of a Crazy Grandma! She said she was going to slide down (she even had some wax paper), but she chickened out!

We only left the camper once today to take the pic and get a short walk in. There is hardly anyone at the campground, but we do get a few overnighters each evening.
All is still well in the Boss camp. Be safe!