Shelter for Voyager

This is how we spent our last two weekends. 🙄 I am so glad we are finished. 😬 This is a look at what we had to do. They made it look so easy on the brochure. Well it was not to hard just a lot of parts.
Well enjoy.

Day trip

While waiting for the Airstream to have the warranty work done Mike and I went to the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen Ohio.  The cost was $3 per person and the place was full of vintage and a few new bikes. There was three floors full of bikes. We were shown a 15 min video about the company and people doing tricks on the vintage bikes. If you are in OH this is a nice place to visit.
I hope you enjoy this short video.

Trying to Vote

Today was quite the adventure, it all started on Monday. Mike and I left after work to take the camper to Jackson Center Ohio for some small warranty work. We arrived in Ohio around midnight. We ate dinner while we were on the road.
We parked the camper at the Airstream camp site. They have sites that have full hook-up so that their customers can arrive at anytime of the night and be right at home (in their campers) until the morning.
Well back to the story. We woke up around 7 am and waited for the shop to open. When it was open we drove over to have them began the work on the camper. Once we did a walk through with the technician to inform of our issues we left and went to breakfast at Bob Evans. After breakfast we went to two thrift stores I found some curtains for the back porch. Then we went to the bicycle museum that was nice.  I digress, we pick up the camper and headed back to MI at 4 pm. We still had to vote. The drive is only 2 hours so we knew we had plenty of time. Well that's when all hell broke loose. It started raining  cats and dogs on our way home so we had to go a little slow to be safe, but again we have 4  hours right. Then as we were going along we heard on the radio that a semi jacked knife and 75 was closed up ahead, so we got off and took another route. At this point we have only one option to not drop off the camper first, and just go straight to the poles with the camper. Well that is what we did driving 75 miles per hour to make it with 10 minutes to spare. We made it I voted did you?
Well despite all that occurred we did have a great day in Ohio.

The want for summer.

Well we took Voyager to be winterize, that symbolized the end of our camping season. I began to think of next year and all the adventures we will have. Mike and I will try new places to camp and explore. We welcome any suggestions or ideas.
There are a few things that I will do differently next year like make a better list so I do not forget anything. I will Relax more and take one day at a time.
Well as the days grow shorter and the cold slowly creeps up on us, I know that soon we will be back singing camps songs and roasting marshmallows.

Halloween

This was our first time Halloween camping. We had a ball I will definitely go again next year. My friend Beatrice invited us. She stated that she had a few decorations for her site. Well when we pulled up she had every inch of her camp site decorated. 😄  She had so much stuff  that she had no room for her boyfriend to park his car, so he had to park on our site.  We on the other hand had few decoration and I do mean a few.  Next year we will be better prepared. My nieces and nephews came to trick or treat with us. They got a lot of candy and enjoyed themselves.  The camp sites were impressive and everyone was nice. One site passed out Jell-O shots for the adults. Who said camping is just for the kids.

Final thoughts for the season.

As we return from a two week camping  Road Trip ( our idea of a road trip). I find myself getting sad,  because I live in Michigan and the end of the camping season is drawing near.
I am just not ready to step back into the modern day trappings of work and deadlines.
At the end of the two weeks I found myself closing my eyes more and breathing deeper my attempt to stop time. I wanted to capture every moment as if it was a post card.  I love loosing myself to nature, it has a profound effect on my spirit.
When I camp it is my hope that with each experience I will leave with a sense of peace,calmness and the stillness I need to deal with the day to day of life stresses.
I Love This Saying:
The mountains are my bones, the rivers my veins.
The forests are my thoughts,and the stars are my dreams.
The ocean is my heart it's pounding is my pulse.
The song of the earth write the music of my soul.

Well as the saying goes I Live to Camp another day.

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The end of the Road Trip.

Well we are at Sleepy Hollow State Park. We will be staying here for a week. This is the last leg of the road trip.
The blog will contain the entire week of events.

Mike has to work so we decided to stay at a park close to his job.
Well for me I will take this time to rest,read and sleep.
We arrived around 3pm to a barking dog from our neighbor, he finally got used to us and stopped barking. I was relieved.
Our neighbor seems nice he told us his whole life story in about 20 minutes. He and his wife are staying the week also. This is their first vacation in 4 years. They have a cute pop up camper. I believe his wife is working like Mike, because I never see her doing the day and I hear her leaving in the morning.
Any way this camp site reminds me of Pontiac Lake because they both have the hidden sites. The only thing I do not like about this park is that 4 sites share the electrical box. It's in a central location, so you have a path leading from each site to the box. Some of the paths are wide leading from your spot. There is a wide opening between our spot and the neighbor spot because of the electrical box. We were able to back the camper back enough to hide the neighbors.
The park is empty now but it was full when the weekend came.
This site is electric only, I was able to make it the entire week. I was careful with my water use and took a shower twice at the campground shower.

I woke up one morning to a thumping sound when I went to see what it was it stopped. About one hour later it started again and I saw what it was. A small very green frog fell in between my windo and the rock guard and was stuck. I did free him he was so cute.

Later in the week we went to Eaton Rapids to the Urban Air. There were about 100 Airstreams lining the downtown and the side streets.  There was old campers and new, small and large Airstreams. We spoke to a lot of the owners and we were able to go inside them. I saw a camper with a slide out that was my first. I saw a Motor home airstream my first.  It had a very interesting decor. It had a fish theme with any and everything that delt with fishing glued all over the inside of that camper.
We stayed for the spaghetti dinner it was for charity.  Next year we will bring our camper.
That pay phone in the video works for local calls only. So if you or your child needs to call home you an and it free. I made a call.