Got up early again, just to get on the road before the head got too bad, managed to get out before 8:00. We had a pretty straight-forward trip, with a stop for fuel at a Centex gas station, which, oddly, charge 10 cents more a gallon for regular than it did for Super! Another stop at Blain’s Farm and Fleet in Eau Galle, a great farm supply store where we FINALLY found a heavy-duty tarp, far superior to those cheap and nasty ones that don’t last for five minutes once they start flapping in the wind. We also got some more fly spray, a heavier duty brand we want to try. We like the Bronco, but we wanted to try one that claims to be longer lasting, so we picked up some Zonk It! 35, to see if that works better. Last stop at Walmart in Menominee before heading out to the campground. Missed one sign, and my GPS (naturally), died from overheating just before we reached out destination, so we had to turn around once, although it was easy to find once we made the turn. Took a quick trip to the dump before coming back to the equestrian campground, which is the first campground you see when you turn into the park. A wide open space with almost no shade, though there were trees around the outer edge. The grass was manicured, surprising for a Corps of Engineers location, and all the sites had a pretty good long gravel pad, though the horse containment was a silly pipe rail “hitching post” with a cable stretched across the top of it. I surely don’t understand the rational behind using a hitching post rather than a highline. It might be more convenient for the rider, but it certainly isn’t a comfortable alternative for the horse! I managed to put up a highline (against the rules, but I’m going to do what’s right for my horses, regardless of what some urban bureaucrat says about it!), stretching it between one of the hitching post rails and a nearby tree (using a tree-saver strap, of course!). We put the horses on anchors for awhile, though we wrapped them around another hitching post so they couldn’t wander off (the main road runs right along the campground). There was a pump house with a couple of spigots on the outside, so we filled up the RV, the newly repaired tank in the horse trailer, and the portable barrel, which should get us through the weekend. Another incredibly hot day, we tried to survive with just fans, but it was too uncomfortable, so we eventually got out both generators and ran the AC for awhile. Hubby had no problem getting a good satellite signal (no trees), and we settled down for the hot evening.
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