Day 22 Friday May 20, 2022 Busy morning as we have 63 reservations coming in today. If everyone comes we will have a full house tonight. No Vacancy at the Inn. There is no rain in the forecast and warm weather so a good looking weekend ahead. We got all the sites ready by 12:30PM before it got hot. We had to turn the air conditioner on in the motorhome.
Day 23 Saturday May 21, 2022 Hot again today but our host site is very shady so was not so hot there. We only have 20 reservations tonight. We saw the third deer today. She walked across through the trees a few yards from our site which was odd with as many campers as we have in the campground. Normally they stay away when the campground is busy.
We were supposed to have a couple singing this evening in the small amphitheater in the campground but it rained kind of hard from about 5 to 8PM.
Day 24 Sunday May 22, 2022 Typical Sunday, with lots of campers leaving but not so many checking in today as normally on Sunday. We cleaned about 40 sites and called it a day. Rained again in the afternoon.
Day 25 Monday May 23, 2022 We woke up and checked the weather and lots of rain is on the way so we hurried and put out the reservation signs out about 7:15AM, much earlier than normal. The gator does not have a roof or windshield so not much fun in the rain using it. At least the golf cart has a roof and windshield. Either some raccoon or bears got in one of the dumpsters again last night.
Rained most of the day so we didn't put out the reservation signs for Tuesday and Wednesday like we normally do before our days off.
Day 26 Tuesday May 24, 2022 We put out the reservation signs for Tuesday and Wednesday before we went to town this morning. We also had to replace most of the site cards that goes on the site post that shows the camper has checked in and what day they are leaving. When the cards get wet they almost dissolve.
Then we went to Jonesville to the Breakfast Time Cafe for breakfast. Ranger Hicks told us we needed to try it. I got the Sampler Platter and it was Most tasty. Then we went to the Amish community to Shiloh General Store and Naturally Wholesome Products for fresh baked dinner roles, chips, milk and bacon.
We returned to Elkin and stopped at Combs meat store. We have driven by it but never stopped. They process a lot of the meat they sell. A lady shopper had two hand carts full of their sausage and told us we needed to try it as it was very good, very meaty. We bought one pack to try. Then Dirty Joe's Coffee shop was calling us. We got caught up on some Internet stuff.
Day 27 Wednesday May 25, 2022 When we leave here on the 31st the GPS wants us to go down some country roads to get to I77 so we decided to drive them in the car first and stop at the Surry Diner near Dobson for breakfast. The Shelton Vineyards and Winery is just down the road from there.
We drove onto Dobson, then took some backroads through the country and ended up in Galax VA at the Briarpatch Marketplace & Cafe for a Latte and their great cinnamon rolls. We came back to the park via the Blueridge Parkway. It was very foggy on the parkway for several miles.
The man that deliveries the firewood to the campground had brought a new supply of firewood when we got back to the park so I helped unload it and put it in the storage building. Then we did a few things around our site in preparation for leaving here on the 31st.
Day 28 Thursday May 26, 2022 Two rangers and one of the admin men came and put a new belt on the golf cart while we were putting out the reservation signs this morning. So I cleaned up the Gator and put it back in the storage building. We are glad to get the golf cart running again. It works much better for doing our work than the Gator.
We had breakfast and then cleaned all the sites that were recently vacated. It is a cool drizzly rainy day. One of the campers left their site to explore the park and left their trash bag lying on the ground on their site and the crows had a picnic and scattered trash all over the site and out in the street. This park has the most crows we have ever seen in one area. I picked up trash twice around the perimeter of their site but didn't get the trash bag as we are not supposed to bother anything on the campers site unless there is a danger or the camper ask us to.
About 6:30PM we got heavy rain for a few hours. We are tired of all the rain.
Day 29 Friday May 27, 2022 We had to get Dakota from the maintenance crew to tighten the belt on the golf cart as it was slipping and making it hard to start. It rained again this afternoon and part of the night. And we have “No Vacancy” at the Inn.
Day 30 Saturday May 28, 2022 Finally nice weather today and the kids are out having a blast in the campground. We began drying out our mats today since we are leaving Tuesday morning. Lots of park visitors today so they had to close the gate for awhile before noon because all the parking lots were full.
Day 31 Sunday May 29, 2022 Only 9 reservations tonight and no rain so we cleaned up our Clam, patio mats, windshield cover, etc. in preparation for leaving Tuesday. Not much work today and perfect weather. But we will make up for it tomorrow.
Had to close the park gate again this morning for awhile due to the number of visitors.
Day 32 Monday May 30, 2022 Lots of work today because the campers stayed until today since it was a holiday weekend. We started to work at 8AM and quit at 2:30PM with two 15 minute breaks. We wanted to get all the sites clean before we leave tomorrow because the lady host that follows us, husband can't help her due to his health and we didn't want her to think we left them for her to clean.
Great weather again today. Our site is totally shady and with the gentle breeze rustling the leaves it was nice today after we finally got all the sites clean. We did 62 today and were pooped when we quite for lunch.
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