Campgrounds – On the Road with Dan & Amy

Community on the Road

Six couples, including us, made plans to hang out in Lubbock, TX following the Habitat for Humanity hangout in Hobbs, NM. These gatherings of several RVers, that are generally active in the Escapees hangout program, have become known as “not-a-hangout hangouts”. We’ve spent a lot of time with Rob & Laura and some time with Mike & Terri. Along with those four, Mark & Sandy and Peter & TJ were with us in Chiefland, FL for most of last winter. Chris and Jenny were at our very first hangout in Tucson, AZ and we got to know them a lot better during the hangout in Hobbs and will spend Christmas with them in a few weeks. We were looking forward to a week of great company and much needed R&R (especially for Rob & Laura – hosts of the Hobbs hangout).

Our Trip West

For the second year in a row, we spent the 2 weeks following Labor Day weekend camped at Southwoods RV Park in Byron, NY. This location is very close to where we lived before retiring and allows us to visit the grandkids, their parents, and our friends from our years in the Rochester, NY area. We spent three consecutive weekends with the grandkids and filled our weekdays visiting friends and recovering from the weekends.

Family Time

Once again, it has been over a month since our last RVing blog post. I specify “RVing” blog post because we’ve created a second blog to cover our backpacking adventures. That blog will become much more active next spring and summer when we attempt to through hike the Appalachian Trail. Until then, you may see one or two posts on it as we work out the kinks of backpacking and sharing our experiences.

COE vs KOA

It has been over a month since our last blog post. We haven’t done a lot of extra special stuff during this time, just meandering our way north to get new furniture in our house on wheels and eventually to Rochester to see our grandkids. We thought this would be a good time to write about different types of campgrounds and why we prefer one particular type over all the rest.

Ending 2020

As we all know, 2020 was quite a year. The pandemic put a monkey wrench in a lot of RVers’ plans and, even though it impacted us some, we were able to travel to most of the places we had planned for the year. This post will briefly cover the final month of the year followed by a summary of all the places we were able to visit with emphasis on National Parks.