We started our big road trip today by heading out for Albany, NY to visit Beth’s family. Now that we’re retired we are trying to limit our daily travel to 250 miles (or 5 hours) per day. So far, this is a nice comfortable pace. We pulled into Country Oaks Campground and RV Park just prior to 2PM. It’s located just across the Georgia state line from Jacksonville, FL (close to I-95, but not too close). There are a lot of oak trees providing great shade but obstructing the satellite reception. Fortunately, we were placed in Site #11 which has a clear view of the Dish Eastern Arc satellites from the back of the site. We had to break out our portable satellite receiver (R2D2), but we are now relaxing to the final round of this year’s US Open golf tournament.
The Verizon cell phone and data coverage is excellent and the Jacksonville TV channels are easily picked up on antenna. The campground WiFi is excellent. Not only are we able to connect to it (although we are fairly close to the office), but it has good bandwidth.
The owners of the campground must be animal lovers because they have a campground cat that greeted us at the office and a miniature horse named Flash that lives underneath the office building.
Site #11 
Site #11 
Kitty 
Flash 
Flash