Our initial journey will be a two-day trip back to Lost River campground (WV), near our son, Kip and his family in Mathias, WV. We'll stay there through the weekend and help our eldest granddaughter, Skye, celebrate her big 13th birthday. Then we leave on Monday to head over to Maryland where we'll once again be staying at Camp Meade RV Park on Ft. Meade -- only a few minutes away from our youngest son, Jamie and his family in Pasadena. We're hoping we'll be able to watch our two grandsons, Ben and Luke, play some soccer. This will be Luke's first year playing and we're anxious to see this sturdy 5-year old in action on the soccer field.
The primary reason we're leaving the wonderful weather here in Longs this early in the year is because I have some minor knee surgery scheduled in early April. Just a scope job and to clean out some of the arthritis on my left knee. I had arthroscopic surgery performed on both knees previously and the surgeons told me I'd most likely have to readdress the whole thing again in 10-12 years -- and it's been 17 years for my left knee so I guess that's pretty good. About 3-4 weeks of rehab will follow the surgery before we can "hit the road" again and continue our journey with LynDen Haus.
We tentatively plan on heading first to Michigan's Upper Peninsula (or UP, as the locals call it) and spend a couple week in the region; we've heard great things about the UP and are anxious to see it for ourselves. After that we'll head pretty much due west, crossing Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, the Panhandle of Idaho, and on into Washington State. We'll stay in the Evergreen State for several weeks, visiting my Mom and sister, Carolyn, in Yakima, and also Lynette's folks and sister, Lori, in Wenatchee. Lynette's parents are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary this summer and we're gonna help them party in style! But more on that in a future blog.
Before leaving Willow Tree, we wanted to leave our readers with a few more pictures of this very picturesque campground. I took my camera with me on a couple walks and came away with a few photos that give a different perspective of the campground. Hope you enjoy them.
View looking back across the lake toward the main part of the campground.
Taken from the other side of the lake, looking back toward the campground's cottages.
Looking down one of the side streets in the campground.
Main part of campground. Lynette (blue coat) is walking back to our
motorhome after picking up our mail at the office.
The lake here at Willow Tree can turn to "glass" when there's no wind blowing. I'd seen it numerous times while we've been here, but never had a camera handy to catch the reflections of the trees on the far side of the lake. While the foliage isn't that great this time of year, the reflections are almost perfect. Thought I'd share a couple of the better shots.
That's a golf cart on the far right of this pic. No golf course here, but lots of people use the carts to go from one part of the campground to another. Some, like this guy, seem to get a kick out of riding around the bike path the circles the lake. For exercise? Think I'd use my bike.
Our two resident geese. They've been here since we arrived, and come and go from time to time. We've seen other geese flying overhead but none ever landed on the lake.
As I mentioned earlier in this blog, we are sad to be leaving Willow Tree. This has been the very best campground we've stayed at since we started our travels. In fact, we've been so impressed that we've already signed up to come back next winter. As of right now, we'll be staying here from December through end-March or early April. We'll probably close up the motorhome for a couple weeks in December, hop in the car and head north to WV and MD to spend the holidays with our two sons and their families. But other than that, we'll be "wintering" once again in Longs, SC.
Will close this blog entry with a photo of our last campfire here at Willow Tree. A huge "white man's" fire, just how Lynette like them! Cheers to all -- catch up with everyone again soon!
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