Summers beginning June 21, 2007

What better way to celebrate the first day of summer than to begin a 6 night camping trip to two of Virginia's state parks? Today we drove to Pocahontas State Park south of Richmond. This park was built by the CCC as Swift Creek Demonstration Camp and later named Swift Creek Recreation Area. The National Park Service donated the park to the state of Virginia in 1946 and was renamed Pocahontas State Park. The name was selected from entries in a contest to rename the park.

We arrived about noon and checked in at the ranger station. We selected site 102 because it was close to the shower house and other facilities and there were near by empty sites where some friends from our motorcycling group could join us. We got backed in, disconnected and were in the process of leveling the camper when we noticed that we were to close to the number post. So we hooked up and moved forward about 2 feet and continued with setting up the camper.

After lunch we headed off to the pool complex. Man what a complex. There were 4 circular pools, 3 were mostly kiddie pools, one with a water park palyground type area. There were also 2 water slides so since I am "growing older but not up..." (Jimmy Buffet song) I had to take a plunge on the longer one. Cool.

Kissy and Mark arrived about 7PM and we quickly got our dinner of speidies, potato and bracoli salad. Desert was a peach cobbler prepared in a dutch oven. It was a big hit. Since Kissy would be 50 tomorrow we re-gifted a 50 T-shirt and coffee mug. We had a very nice visit with Mark and Kissy.

I cleaned the dutch oven at the bath house slop sink while Suzette did the other dishes in the camper. Since it was a cool evening we were able to turn off the A/C and open the windows for sleeping.