Got up bright and early at what would have been 6:00 central time, started packing right away and managed to get on the road by 8:45 Central time. Of course, we were actually in Eastern time since we left Honey Creek, the time line is literally across the road from the camp. Except for 30 miles on I-75, we were on state and county byways the whole way, fortunately good enough for us, though Bryce at Honey Creek warned me against going east straight out of the camp, he said the gravel road would be a trial for us in our big rig, so we went west first, then cut across to pick up 52, then 27 north. Since it was only 180 miles, and I had topped off the tank last time we were out, we got here with no fuel stopping, or any stopping for that matter, so we arrived at the forest right around 2:00, then a slow 2.5 miles on gravel road to the horse camp had us backing into our spot and settling in around 2:30. No one else was here, not surprisingly, and it doesn't look like this camp gets a lot of activity, so it will be interesting to discover whether we get company on this upcoming 4th of July weekend. There are high-line posts here, so it only took me a few minutes to get my rope up and get the horses out of the trailer. I have to say that Flash was much better today. Though he did hesitate a little getting in, when Hubby came around to his rump side, it only took a tiny slap to get him to get into the trailer this morning, and he went much more quietly than previously, no panic whatsoever, so progress is made! Coming out he was pretty good, too, a lot less frantic, though he still nearly knocked me over. There's quite a bit of grass here, I may just get out the electric fence later and let them graze a bit. Pretty hot here, though, in the upper 80's to low 90's and quite humid, but once I got the screen room up and the fans going, it didn't feel too bad, at least I was able to cool off between jobs. Lola played with her GoDoGo fetching machine for a while, we enjoyed beer and wine, had a BLT for dinner, and fed the horses. Hubby managed to get a few local channels on the TV, but network TV is so pathetic we turned it off after half an hour, then sat outside in our lovely screen room, contemplating the idea of actually sleeping out here tonight. Surprisingly, I do, in fact have a cell phone signal, not a great one, not one good enough for Netflix, but good enough to check my email and hopefully update my blog. Really quiet, though we can occasionally hear traffic on the gravel road that brought us here, but I'm really looking forward to dark nights. One of the things about Honey Creek, since we were right across from the bathhouse, there was a bright light shining in on my side, and another on the other side that came in Hubby's bedroom window, too, but there doesn't seem to be any electric out here at all, so darkness is in store for us! I looked up if the International Space Station would be out tonight, and it is, but not until about 3:30 in the morning, so I'm going to miss it! It goes by again in the 6:00 hour, we'll have to see if I'm up by then, but I'm guessing not. Apollo usually whinnies a breakfast alarm, but usually not until much later, so we should be able to sleep in late tomorrow, fingers crossed! May or may not go riding, depends on how I feel in the morning. We have to dialyze tomorrow afternoon, so I may just rest tomorrow and ride Wednesday, depending on the weather. We'll just have to wait and see! So great to have so many options, including just being lazy! Whoo-hoo!!