A quick bowl of cereal, final payment of the bill, stowing of hay, and we were off before 8:30, hoping against hope that we could avoid rain today. It’s been so rainy almost everyday, and while it is thankfully much cooler up here than it was at Deam Lake, the rain has made everything damp, and lots of fields around here have standing water in them. Though it was misty and cloudy, we managed to stay dry most of the day. Rather than taking the expensive and crowded toll road east, we decided to take a southern route, a bit longer but much more pleasant, breaking at regular intervals to eat, get fuel and propane, walk the dogs and so on, until we arrived in the area of the state park around 3:00. My GPS took me to the wrong place, and there was terrible signage, so we had to park and call to find out directions, which we finally got. Then I missed a turn and had to go a couple of miles out of my way to find a place to turn around. We finally made it to the office, where a new girl had no clue how to register me without a reservation, so she had to get help. The older woman wasn’t a lot better, in the end having to call the park manager on instructions of what to do! Then we discovered that despite what their website says, there is no water, heavily ironed or otherwise at the horse camp, which was going to make things a bit more dicey. We went down to the dump station area and filled up with fresh water, including some in the horse tank so we would have enough for at least a day or two. Then we took the long, narrow road down to the horse camp, discovering that very few sites offered a good shot at a satellite signal, and those were on a slope that would require us to unhook if we had a hope of getting level, which was also necessary because the sites were so short we couldn’t stay hooked up anyway without blocking the road. There were a few sites that were level, but with all the rain, they were super-soggy, plus didn’t have a shot at a satellite signal, so we did the best we could. Unfortunately, we were so worried about being level front to back, we didn’t really take notice of side-to-side until we hooked up, then we realized we were at a definite list to the left. By this time, it was nearly 6:00, so we decided not to mess with it anymore tonight, as Hubby wanted to get the satellite dish up. While this usually doesn’t take much time, for some reason we could never get power from the receiver to the satellite dish, something that usually only takes hooking up the coaxial cable, but for some reason, the power wasn’t getting through. We messed around with THAT for more than an hour, until a thunderstorm came in and we gave up for the time being. I fixed dinner for us and the dogs (who had spent several hours exploring), and afterwards got the horses put away on the cable high lines they have here (they were on their anchors, happily munching nice green grass and clover), before we finally settled down for a movie on DVR. As it was raining pretty steadily, I put some buckets under several of the RV’s gutters, figuring that might solve the horse water problem, at least! Considering there’s rain in the forecast every day while we’re here, it may be all we need. Bed by ten!
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