This was a fun and successful day. Goals - get a forest map from the ranger station, find a good campground, and hook up with AA. Plus, have some fun.
Emo Dog doesn't understand that we are now on Central Time, so we were up early. I found the Ranger station in Vienna, but it wasn't open yet, so I went to a local restaurant and had a good breakfast. After that, the Ranger station was open, and as usual, I had a nice conversation with the ladies there and got a good forest map. There has been a lot of storm damage here, even more in the Western part of the Forest.
We spent a couple hours on gravel forest roads checking out some primitive campgrounds and just having a good time, then I checked out a couple commercial campgrounds. The second one had a cancellation, and I will be able to move tomorrow and get a good site with everything we want, full hook-ups and a clear view of the satellite. Details tomorrow.
The campground here with the Forest Service is OK, I guess, but it is run by a private concessionaire, and the price is now $18/day. That's for electric only, and I have no DirecTV. But it looks like this forest has enough stuff to keep us busy for a month, so I am taking the monthly rate at the commercial campground.
What remained here was, since we were leaving Lake Glendale tomorrow, we might as well spend the afternoon hiking its trail! That's what we did, it is a little over 3 miles around the lake. I have some pictures, but the internet is intermittent here (a good signal at the commercial campground) so I'll post some of them tomorrow.
It took a couple phone calls, but I did find a meeting place tonight, and attended a meeting with 5 of us, but it was a good meeting, we went over an hour. Now I have a meeting schedule, so I can go when I want. And the meetings in Harrisville, along with full service shopping, is only about 20 minutes from tomorrow's new campground.
So, a great day. I might not blog every day of the trip, but I will try to get some more pictures up soon.
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