Magnus to Mass., with Jamestown Jaunt, Day 15

Wednesday, August 20

We left Edward’s and headed on the long and scenic route to home. But the drive started off poorly, with rain, drizzle and showers, traffic, a route change due to the trucker app choosing a backroads route that I really didn’t want to go on, and me overriding it with a google route. All of those things stressed Ed out supremely and he didn’t have a good drive at all.

At the end, we took the KOA’s recommended route because “the google route was not good for RVs” and I can’t even begin to imagine what that might have been like because the route we were on was absolutely horrible for RVs. We went  through a tiny narrow town with a big truck parked on the side of the tiny narrow street, and the RV mirror hit the side of the truck (or something) and broke off the bottom piece. We were able to pull over shortly thereafter and snap it back into position, and with any luck it will stay put until we can accomplish a more permanent fix.

Finally got to the KOA and it didn’t even have a doggie playground!  I’ve never seen a KOA that didn’t. But they have all sorts of kiddie playgrounds, so what the heck?

 

LATER

I waited and waited for Molly’s walk,  but it wouldn’t stop raining. The forecast said it would stop at seven, so I took her for a quick walk, then came back and ate supper.

Norman called, and while talking to him I observed that it really had stopped. At about seven. Molly got about a 45-minute walk, in the rain because of course it started again before we got back, and that had to be all. It was getting dark, and while the campground is not at all full, in the dark and being unfamiliar with it I couldn’t see exactly where best areas were for walking.

It's an okay KOA, but way too expensive for what we need from it—full hookup and pull-thru for one night. Gravel surfaces, a little grass, lots of big trees but plenty of open sites for satellite internet users. If you had kids here, it would be great. There are all sorts of kids games and play areas. I’d recommend it if you didn’t have dogs or didn’t care for dog playgrounds.

But if I write a review, I have to point out that the roads to get here are atrocious. Narrow, curvy, and lots of low-hanging tree branches and limbs obscuring the lanes of the two-lane roads.