Magnus to Mass., with Jamestown Jaunt, Day 16

Thursday, August 21

We had a really bad start to the day.  The trucker app couldn’t connect and when it finally did, I didn’t trust its directions and we had to pull over and let me think. And then it started working, but pulling out of the parking lot scraped something underneath the motorhome. Ouch.

Note at the time: Ed is really making the trip harder on himself by going so slowly.  It turns 3 hour drives into 4 hour drives. It may be conserving fuel but not much, and for no good reason.

We ended up at Spacious Skies Campgrounds, Country Oaks. It’s a really pretty, really expensive, family oriented campground in New Jersey. The location isn’t convenient to our normal route to/from Massachusetts, but it was sort of on the way to where we were going. And reasonably close to the Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge—see tomorrow for details.

So after meandering through lots of little roads and towns, we ended up on a road that paralleled the railroad tracks, and then we crossed the tracks and there was our campground. The place seemed huge, but I have to admit I never went over to some of the parts of it. Our site was over by the kid’s bounce cushion and not too far from the dog park. Which was large and shady and completely empty of other dogs the whole two days we were there. Never once did I have to wait for other dogs to leave.

Our site was out in the sun, and we had good reception and all. But the campground was very full—not completely full, but full enough that walking the dog was always hazardous. We mainly walked to and from the dog park or went out onto the street and walked back and forth between our street and the railroad tracks. No trains, though.

And that’s about all I remember for the day…except the dog park had at least six tennis balls in it. Someone must have dumped a whole bag!  Molly loved it.

  

REVIEW: Spacious Skies Country Oaks

Nice, family friendly destination…if you can afford it

I can’t think of a single thing wrong with this campground except that as retired people on a fixed income, we can’t afford $90 a night very often.  The sites could have been a tiny bit farther apart. But otherwise, lovely.

Full hookup, pull-thru sites, and back-in too if you prefer them. Gravel surfaces with lots of green grass in and around. Some sites are in deep woods but ours was in full sun, so we could have satellite service. Also ours was a patio site which had both a picnic table and  a couple of adirondack chairs around a tiny firepit.

For dogs they have a big, fenced park with trash cans, scoopers for cleanup and also pick-up bags. It’s a little dusty and could be muddy in rainy weather because it’s in deep shade.  Which I like, because it’s cooler in the daytime. I  didn’t see anyone else using it in the two days we were there, which is odd.

For kids they have a bounce pad, playground, gameroom with pool table and air hockey, and several other fun things. And for the rest of us, a swimming pool and basketball court. And laundry.

The showers were by the pool and there were about six of them but the water was not hot at all.  Tepid was the best we could say. Normally that wouldn’t be an issue for RVers, but our motorhome shower was broken. They were a little dated but clean and serviceable.