There were several things I wanted to do in Louisville, so we stayed five nights at Deam Lake State Recreation Area, which was in Indiana about 30 minutes away. I wanted to stay closer, but all the nearer campgrounds had poor reviews and some were if’fy for big rigs. Turns Read more…
We weren’t sure how late we would be picking up the RV on Sunday, so we reserved a nearby Boondockers Welcome place, Paradise in Chesterville, in Arthur, IL. A very nice couple greeted us and even gave us a bag of popcorn, since they had just popped some. They didn’t Read more…
We left Branson, MO around around 7pm and stopped overnight near St. Louis, MO in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. We woke up early the next morning to finish the trip and arrive at Indian Point RV Roofing in Athens, IL around 8am. We dropped the RV off to get Read more…
I can’t believe we had another major issue when we tried to set up in Branson, plus a couple of other stupid mistakes I made. I don’t even want to talk about it yet, so I’ll wait til the end of this post to document what happened and just try Read more…
Oh… My… Gosh! I wanted to cry when I saw the wrinkled up rubber membrane on the roof that we just spent an extra few weeks in CO to get replaced. Unbelievable! The wrinkles went further back this time and blew out in two different places, ripping apart the new Read more…
Our third and final one night stop while traveling across Kansas was at Hillsdale State Park. Unfortunately, our Garmin GPS had trouble finding this park. Randy noticed something was wrong when he saw a Dead End sign in a residential area. Luckily, there was a gravel turn-around spot near the Read more…
We stayed one night at Milford Lake State Park for our second stop across Kansas. It was a gorgeous evening, so we walked around the campground enjoying it. Since our view of the sunset from the area near our RV had trees in the way, we decided to drive over Read more…
Our first one night stay while driving across Kansas was Lake Scott State Park. Since I hadn’t been sure when we’d be leaving Monument, I had not made a reservation here; but I saw online that there were plenty of spaces available for walk-ins, so we decide to give it Read more…
The RV roof repair finally started going our way! The Progressive guy communicated with the service guy and the RV was ready to look at when he arrived. The damage was obvious, so a new roof was approved and ordered, and the service department started ripping off the old one Read more…
Instead of going through Kansas after leaving Jackson Lake State Park as planned, we went back to Monument and stayed at the CO Heights RV Resort while dealing with the hail damaged roof repair stuff. The RV shop kept stringing me along, trying to find a time when a bay Read more…