Snowbirding Magnus Style, Day 15

Tuesday, November 18

Bye, Rockhound! 

Molly saw a mule deer in the morning. It was coldish outside but I didn’t really need the heavy jacket that I put on. But it was cloudy, and I only saw the sun for a bit as it came up over the big hill behind the campground. 

We had a very mild and uneventful drive to Southern Star RV Park in Van Horn. We knew we were going to lose an hour, and so we did—shortly before arriving. And then we were having to adjust to eating our supper an hour earlier earlier. Bummer.

Of course, getting up earlier won’t be so easy to swallow.

Luckily I had gotten up a little earlier in the morning because I wanted to give Molly a nice long walk at the state park before she was stuck in a RV park for the night.  Which was good; I wish I could keep it up.

 

REVIEW: Southern Star RV Park Van Horn      $42 site 11

Decent little parking lot by the interstate

There’s not a whole of the town of Van Horn, but they try. The RV park was more than adequate for an overnight or even a few days if you were working from your RV and needed a quiet place to park.  The guy at the office was very nice and walked over to make sure we fit in our site.

We had a pull-thru with 50-amp electricity, water and sewer. The connections were all the way in the back of the site but our Class A has the sewer outlet a little past midline, so if we hadn’t had two extra sewer hoses we could add on, we’d have had to unhook the toad and park it in front. I’d guess it at about 30’ of hose we used.  Also note that the sewer hookup is right next to the water spigot, which could be unsanitary if the last user was careless about his cleanup.

We had a picnic table but no fire pit. The park has a few pine trees around but is mostly bare gravel and would be dusty in a high wind and a little on the hot side in summer. In November, it was fine. Being close to the highway, there’s traffic noise of course but not too bad.

There’s a laundry, bathrooms (didn’t use), a clubhouse with a pool table, a basketball goal and little play area for kids, plus a fenced dog park, with poop bags and a trash can for the litter. It’s smallish and has bare ground—plus one big tree for shade—but it’s more than adequate. I don’t think there was a bench or any chairs.

Just down and across the street (Broadway) is a little park beside the railroad tracks. No playground or anything, but at least a place to let kids run around.  There’s a Lowe’s market and a McDonalds all within a half mile.