Today we started our summer trip up North. We left home at 8:30AM when our lawn service arrived. We left in a bit of a hurry to try and keep the cats from getting too agitated by the lawn service equipment (they were already uptight about being in the truck). At the last second I asked Beth if she was sure we had locked the front door. She went back and checked which accidentally triggered our alarm system. We were just getting out of the neighborhood when the alarm monitoring company called us (so glad we answered). Once we confirmed to them that we were the culprits, we called our neighbor Terry and he graciously went over and reset our alarm system.
We drove up to Beth’s allergy doctor’s office where I dropped her off and then went and parked the camper at the nearby Dollar General. I was able to successfully park at the loading dock where I sat with my cats and hoped a Dollar General truck didn’t arrive. We left there at 9:33AM EDT and arrived at Reed Bingham State Park at 2:40PM EDT. We stopped for lunch and fuel at the Loves Travel Stop just south of Lake City.
Last year we stayed in Site #35. This year we tried Site #14 to see if there might be fewer gnats in the less wooded area. The answer is “No”. However, this is a really nice site that is still quite shaded, but has a huge open area right outside our door (with no other campers in site). Unfortunately, there are still enough trees to prevent us from using our Dish Satellite. We knew that was a possibility and are relying on the campground cable. The campground cable is “OK” at best. The three local channels (ABC, NBC, and FOX) come full screen, but all of the regular cable channels come in very small and a number of them are not clear. The campground cable uses Dish Network (satellite) which completely lost reception during a heavy downpour that lasted a good chunk of the evening. We originally tried the antenna and picked up a number of channels, but only two locals. We are getting over 178Mbps download speeds with our AT&T 5G+ hot spot.
