Ups and Downs along the way

We were suppose to leave Ravenna this morning, but when I went to bring in the slider it wouldn't work. (Just another adventure!) We will need to spend another day here to get things fixed and the folks at the campground were wonderful and booked the site for another night. Ken worked on the hydraulics all morning with the tremendous help of the Coach House staff and the hydraulics vendor HWH. Every0ne was terrific. HWH helped Ken and we were able to bring the bedroom in. We slept with the room in so we could just leave in the morning. We took a walk and sat on the campground office deck and watched people come and go. Believe it or not we had a sort of sunset at 8:30 tonight!

Camping isn't just about the sunshine!

Another rainy day, but there is still plenty to keep us busy. We just hung out, took a walk in the rain (very romantic) and planned some more of the trip route. However, we could both use some sun! The rain let up a little and Ken through a line in an snagged 2 little fish, but they both jumped off...but we saw them "honest"!

Fold Cat Funnies

I can't believe it's June 1st already. Now that our sight seeing trips are over we will be around camp more. We have a really nice site right on the lake. The picnic area is really big as you can see in the picture. We can launch the boat just over the edge of the bank and tie it up to the tree.

We'll be here today and tommorrow hoping we can get some more fishing in. The sun finally came out and we launched the Fold Cat. Thank goodness we didn't have an audience. We had to remember how to put it together and got laughing so hard I didn't think we would ever get in the water, but we did. The lake was great and very scenic, I had a "nibble" but that was it. We had been out about half an hour and of course the wind came up and it started to rain. We got hooked up on a sandbar on the way in and that started us laughing again. It got worse from there, it is all clay here on the banks and clay gets slippery in the rain. Picture us scrambling up the bank trying to pull the boat in...we will definitely need the laundry to clean Ken's rain jacket and shorts!

We have been having problems with wifi access and we finally gave in today and got a Verizon card. Now we should be able to get on line most anywhere. (We have people now...)

I think tommorrow will be a house cleaning day.

West Branch State Park - Ravenna Ohio

Time to mosey out of PA. Left camp and crossed into Ohio about 10:30am. Today will be a short 2 hour drive on Rte 322 W to Rte 7 S and then onto Rte 5 W which took us right into Ravenna, Ohio. The routes took us through nice back country roads and it was pretty country. Lots of beautiful farms and the gardens are awesome. I had forgotten parts of Ohio were so pretty (I lived in Ohio for a short time years ago).

We will stay in West Branch State Park, Ravenna Ohio for the next few days as it is close to a lot of the places we want to visit. The park is beautiful and it is rated the #1 state park campground in the state. Finally the sun is out! Our site is nice and is on a cul-de-sac and across from the showers. It has some trees so it is nicely shaded. We took a ride around the park and found this other site that will be vacant tomorrow. It is right on the lake. We went back to the office and reserved it for Sun, Mon, Tues. The lake is huge and I think we can get access from our new campsite to launch our inflatable boat (Fold Cat).

We haven't seen much wildlife but we did see a deer as we pulled into the Ravenna area. The funny thing was it was standing behind the fence inside the Army Ammunitions Plant grounds. Hmmm..

Someone asked me what we are eating. We are eating just like we would at home. No it isn’t hamburgers and hot dogs every night. Tonight was pork chops with carrot salad. We do eat a lot healthier on the road than we do at home as the fridge is smaller and we can’t carry a lot of junk food.

Finally we can have our 1st campfire tonight. OK what were we thinking… the wood was wet (3 days of rain will do that) but we got it going finally. Sat down and just got comfortable and sure enough I looked up and the sky is pitch black. 5 minutes later we had a thunderstorm and a pretty good one too. The storm was so defined we could watch the front moving across the lake and we watched the lightening for a while.

Here's an interesting note: We drove through Newton Falls, Ohio today. Their zip code is 44444!