Cedar
Point National Park
Day
1 – Thursday September 29, 2016 We departed for Cedar Point
National Park Campground at 9:11AM. We didn't go far before we ran
into some fairly heavy rain. We had checked the weather radar
forecast earlier and knew the rain was coming and we wanted to get to
the campground before the rain so we could get setup before the rain
got there. We arrived about 10:30AM and got setup quickly before the
rain started. It did not rain much at the campground.
We
will be participating in the 30th North Carolina Seafood
Festival as vendors selling my woodworking crafts and staying here at
night. In prior years we have parked the motorhome on a used car lot
across from the festival grounds but had not been able to get a good
nights sleep due to all the noise from a music band playing at a
restaurant behind us and one across the road at the festival and also
a refrigerated truck two parking spaces away that ran all day and
night.
Day
2 – Friday September 30, 2016 Happy 49th Anniversary to
us. We got up early, stopped at McDonald's for breakfast and drove to
Morehead City to set up for the festival. It began raining while
waiting inline to get to our site. The rain stopped for awhile by the
time we got to our site and got setup for the 12 noon opening of the
festival. During the day we had to lower the sides to our canopy and
shutdown 4 times due to heavy rain. The last time the water was
running over the street curbs on our side of the street and the water
running through our site from front to back about 2” deep at the
highest point and about 6” deep at the lowest point beside the
curb. What a mess! The sun finally came out for the remainder of the
day and we did fairly good sales until dark when we closed up.
Day
3 – Saturday October 1, 2016 The weather was much better today, no
rain and mostly overcast. We had fairly good sales but not as good as
prior years. I got lots of compliments on my woodworking but that
does not always translate to sales.
Day
4 – Sunday October 2, 2016 It rained heavy during the early morning
hours and water ran through our site again but we didn't have any
damaged merchandise so we feel fortunate. Normally sales are not good
on Sunday and today sales was less than normal. So we finished the
festival with about 30% less sales than normal for the festival. They
changed the route for bringing in our vehicles in to load up and of
course some people didn't follow instructions and came in the wrong
way and blocked those of us that followed instructions and delayed us
from loading up and leaving. And one of the food vendors took his
tent down and placed all the parts right in the middle of the street
and blocked everyone on one street for several minutes until the
festival crew made him move it out of the street. We were glad it was
over because we were really tired and ready to get back to the
campground and get a shower and rest.
Day
5 – Monday October 3, 2016 Today was a day of rest and reading and
a couple of walks around the campground.
Day
6 – Tuesday October 4, 2016 After breakfast I departed for home to
unload the truck and open up our canopy so it can dry out, mow the
grass, get the mail, feed the cats and then I had to go to
Kenansville to attend training for the upcoming election. I got back
to the campground about 9:30PM. Lena was notified while I was gone
that the campground was closing at Noon Thursday because of hurricane
Matthew that is working its way up the coast.
Day
7 – Wednesday October 5, 2016 We went to McDonald's for breakfast
and then to the local grocery store to stock up on a few groceries.
We decided rather than waiting until tomorrow morning to leave we are
going to leave this afternoon. There is over a dozen campers here and
they will all be leaving tomorrow morning so the line at the dump
station is probably going to be backed up.
We
packed up, dumped our holding tanks and departed about 2:45PM and got
home a little after 4PM.
