It's only been a month, and here's my first blog post! Having lots of fun, but also nagging trailer problems. I'll try to compress a month's worth of travel into just one post.
We're currently camped at Oliver Lee State Park, near Alamagordo, NM. Arrived Thursday, the 21st...
But first...here are photos of the inside of our trailer--lived-in, not prettied up--that Levi asked to see. Here you go, Levi:
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| Looking forward from rear of trailer, in front of TV |
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| Looking rearward from bathroom door |
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| From kitchen looking toward the driver's side slide. Leah's note: Although I am fat, I am not as fat as I look in this picture. |
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| From driver's side slide looking at passenger's side slide and kitchen |
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| Taken standing in front of dresser, looking at bed in bedroom slide |
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| Bathroom from door to kitchen |
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| Bathroom from door to bedroom |
Now to catch up...
We left home on Oct. 29, bound for Alfred Station, NY, where The Bicycleman had a bike rack waiting for us that would accommodate both an upright and a recumbent. Didn't have time to pick it up, though, as we arrived near dusk. Guided by
RV Parky (new android app), we found Kanakadea Park, run by the Hornell County. It was one of the few parks that hadn't closed for the winter (all the state parks had), and it was open and empty, save for us. The problem was that the ground was soggy and unlevel, so we tried three times to set up (in the dark), and three times we were thwarted. After that, we gave up and drove to the Hornell Walmart, which RV Parky labelled as allowing overnighting. Next morning, we drove back to Kanakadea, thinking that, in the daylight, we might have better luck. And the daylight did make a difference: the Park was quite beautiful, something we couldn't appreciate in the pitch black the night before. As for the leveling, though, no dice: either we couldn't level, or the leveling blocks sank into the mud under the trailer's weight, or, in the last try, we actually got stuck: tires would just spin us deeper into the mud. Sorely regretted not getting 4-wheel drive...until I tried using the leveling blocks under the drive wheels. That did the trick--and my regret instantly disappeared, replaced by a self-satisfied smugness at not having wasted $$ on 4-wheel drive. Now we realized we'd have to leave, since all the sites were soggy ground, but then I saw that one of the campsite access loops was gravelled, and since we were likely the only ones using the campground, we figured we wouldn't be in anyone's way if we parked on the gravelled loop. Bingo! We were level, on firm ground, and with our extension cord, could plug into electricity.
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| Kanakadea Reservoir (?) |
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| Set up |
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| Bike rack installed (a useful addition, since it cleared lots of space in the truck bed, to say nothing of keeping the bikes accessible and undamaged) |
In the morning, we had a coffee-walk through the campground and along the lake shore, then left the trailer to visit the Bicylceman. Got the rack installed, tranferred the bikes from the truck bed to the rack, freeing up lots of room in the truck.
