Grand Design Factory Tour – 8/16/2024
On Friday (8/16) Beth and I picked Dad up at home and took him with us for a factory tour of Grand Design RV’s new motorhome manufacturing facility just 21 miles away in Middlebury, IN. The tour was excellent and their first “motorized” RV is a Class C design in which we have much interest due to its king size bed. After the tour, Mom met us in Shipshewana at Ben’s Soft Pretzels for a snack. Beth and I actually upgraded from snack to lunch by splitting a delicious pizza pocket.
Cade Lake County Park – 8/13/2024
On Monday (8/13/2024) we headed 21 miles Northeast to Cade Lake County Park and Campground in Sturgis, MI. We checked in around 1PM EDT. This campground has full hookups and we are parked in a back-in site beside a small canal giving us a clear view of the southwestern sky for easy access to all three Dish Network satellites. We were unable to pickup any channels via antenna. Our Verizon signal is LTE and not very strong at times. We are getting 133/15 Mbps download/upload speeds with our AT&T 5G+ hot spot.
The campground is fairly nice and our site is on a corner and very large. The camp host told us it’s the best site in the campground. For the first four days we had a couple of groups in tents that were of questionable character. The family next to us returned to their tents in the evening long after we had setup and the “Karen” leading the pack (with died blue hair) immediately registered a complaint with the campground about odors allegedly emanating from our sewer connection. When the camp host investigated I told him we had only attached the hose and hadn’t opened any valves eliminating any chance of an odor. We both agreed that there was no odor, but he asked me to dump a gray tank just so it looked like we did something to address the issue. Then he sprayed around our hoses with something from a tank (looked like water) to add to the illusion. Throughout the event he complained under his breath to us about the inordinate number of complaints the blue haired “Karen” had registered and how they all couldn’t wait for her and her tribe to leave Friday. The folks in tents across from us seemed to be living out of them while working full time jobs. We kept everything locked up at all times. Once both of those groups departed, the campground felt “normal”.
