Camping Day 50

James River to Holliday Lake
Sunday August 5, 2007

Today is a travel day but since the parks are only about 25 miles apart we don't have any issues with time. So we had a cooked breakfast and got things ready for the move.

Holliday Lake is one of the CCC parks so it is somewhat dated. The sites are small and there are only 8 sites that are rated for our rig. After we checked in we found our way to site 19 which looked passable from inside the truck. We pulled into the site and played move the trailer attempting to find an area that resembled level. It is hard to believe that they paved the sites but didn't bother to grade them even close to level. So we gave up and moved to site 20 and spent about an hour in 91 degree heat getting the trailer positioned in what we thought was the levelest area. We used about 3" of wood to get the camper close to level side to side. Once unhitched from the truck the trailers tongue jack was almost all the way down to reach front to rear level. The rear stabilizers were almost fully extended while the front were lowered just a few inches.

Campsite as viewed from the shower house

Once we were done we rested a bit and then rode over, in the air conditioned truck, to the swim beach and boat launch area to check things out. We thought about taking a swim but the beach was crowded with weekenders, them working folks, so we decided we would swim Monday when it was less crowded.

The beach area on Monday

As we were waiting for our friends Doug and Athena to arrive another motor coach pulled in to site 19. So we watched that show. Actually that coach made a couple of passes looking for a suitable site before they took 19. They used a stack of 3 2x6's under the rear wheels to get front to rear level.

Since there was very weak cell service in the park we headed to Appomattox to look around, make a call to Doug and Athena and find some diesel. When we returned we found that Barth had arrived and was on site 21 so Doug and I toured the bus while the ladies toured our Flagstaff. Doug and Athena and the kids have done a lot of work to repair and update systems and correct mechanical problems. Nice job. Since it was dark, well overcast after the rain, we did not take any pictures.