This morning at roughly 9AM EDT we left Mom & Dad’s house in LaGrange, IN and started heading East to visit Beth’s family in Albany, NY. We headed East on US-20 until we picked up I-475 North in Toledo, OH. We followed I-475 to I-75 North and then picked up I-280 South to get to SR-51 which then takes you to SR-579. SR-579 eventually dumps into SR-2 which runs parallel to Lake Erie and eventually dumps into I-90 just East of Cleveland (avoiding the Ohio Turnpike tolls). We stopped at the Sam’s Club along SR-2 in Sandusky, OH and purchased fuel for $3.17/gallon (the best price we saw all day).
We pulled into Camp Eriez on Lake Erie in Lake City, PA at 3:20PM EDT. We stayed here last year on our trek East as well. We are in the same site as last year and were able to eventually pickup the DISH Eastern Arc satellites on our portable satellite antenna (R2D2) after several tries. I don’t think we would have any luck if we were in any of the sites beside us. We would probably have to get a site in one of the rows behind us (Sites 1 – 10). We would definitely stay here again.
On our second day in the campground a new neighbor arrived around 2:30PM just two sites to the East and we had a temporary loss of power shortly after he connected his camper to power. Our power came back, but only at about 107 Volts so we shut our air conditioners off. I talked to one of the campground employees and they recommended moving to another site because they didn’t know much about power. He recommended Site #5 because it’s on another circuit. The beauty of Site #5 is that we were able to access the DISH Western Arc satellites from our roof antenna, but our voltage from the power source was only slightly better. We got both air conditioners running with our voltage barely reading 110 Volts. In order to eliminate any risk we switched the water heater to gas and avoided any excess use of power. It was a very hot day (91 degrees) for a campground on Lake Erie so they were probably at their power limit even though the transient area of the campground had minimal occupants.
Camp Eriez – Site #11 
Camp Eriez – Lake Erie
