Wednesday, June 24, 2015 – Travel Day to Alleghany State Park, Water Mystery

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After considering our options, we finally decided to go to Alleghany State Park, primarily because I was told, on several phone calls, that they had several water spigots throughout the campground, and at one point, was told they even had electric, though I had serious doubts about that. The drive was uneventful, with a single stop at Walmart in Ohio to top off the gas tank of the van and to pick up a couple of last minute groceries before we arrived at the park. Very nicely landscaped, and very full of people around the beach and main campground area, we had high hopes for the horse camp. After stopping at the rental office, I learned that my suspicions about electric were correct, there was none. I was told we should get water at the dump, which we did, but I was still under the impression there were multiple spigots at the horse camp, which had prompted our decision to come here, as I have a bunch of laundry to do. Unfortunately, when we arrived at the horse camp, we couldn't find any water at all, except an algae infested water trough that was evidently spring-fed. No spigots, nothing. In addition, most of the sites were grass, and very soggy, so we had to opt for one site that had some gravel, but that had a pretty serious grade up in the back, so we ended up not being level, again! After several debates, Hubby and I decided that it would be a very uncomfortable and work-heavy weekend if we stayed, so we came to the conclusion, for a variety of reasons, to leave tomorrow morning and get to Sugar Hill near Watkins Glen, which is our ultimate goal for the 4th of July weekend. Having decided that, I started the washing machine, as I didn't want to carry a full tank to Watkins Glen. Then something very strange happened... We ran out of water! We were both sure we had filled the tank, and also sure that there was no way we could have lost 85 gallons of water without noticing it, but sure enough, we ran out of water! The only conclusion had to be that despite believing we heard water going into the tank, and I saw water coming out of the overflow under the RV, we must not have put water in. Don't ask me how, I have no explanation, because everything seemed to go as it normally did, but the water just didn't get into the tank, period. So we ended up having to put water from the horse water tank in a bucket and use that to finish washing dishes and bottled water for brushing teeth and other personal ablutions, making it even more imperative we leave tomorrow. We didn't even bother putting up the satellite dish, so we watched some things that were recorded and went to bed, ready to move out tomorrow.

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