Georgia on my…Magnus? Day 2

Thursday, February 12

 I woke a half hour before sunrise at 7 am with the alarm set for 7:10. I was just about to get up when Ed got up first. Oh well—I didn’t get the longer version of the morning dog walk, but at least I didn’t have to make the coffee.

Funny sign at the campground:

Outside there was a very noisy pileated woodpecker drumming. Otherwise it was so very wonderfully quiet. Pine warblers dueling. Distant airplane. Sweet.

During our after breakfast dog walk, I saw a Pileated Woodpecker, a Red-bellied Woodpecker I think, a White-breasted Nuthatch, Pine Warbler, Chipping Sparrow; robins, bluejays, chickadees, titmice, and of course, yellow-rumped warblers.

Today we’ll be passing (and skipping) the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum. Where Bonnie and Clyde had their last meal. The ambush site is down the road. I wonder if my family went there when we took our trip to see Ma Etta in Marietta Oklahoma? I remember seeing a car with bullet holes and that was really cool.

LATER NOTES:
Horrible long day today. First, dumping took a while. We turned the wrong way getting out of the campground and it took a while to circle back. Then a long backup on Interstate 20. Then a slow pump at Love's.

But eventually we got there, to a private campground called Askew Landing.  I liked it pretty well. The dog park was great. All the big pine trees were soothing. But I didn’t spend any time sitting outside or walking around to  enjoy it. There were a lot of RVs in the back, lined up in front of the trees and I kept assuming they were owned by long-term residents who at any minute would arrive back from work and then let their dogs out for their evening poop. It never happened, though.

I would consider staying there again for an overnight stop-over. The office people were nice.

Mississippi River pics

 Review: Askew Landing RV Campgound

Nice family-oriented campground with a fishing pond

I could imagine this being a great place to have a small family reunion or a few days get-together. There is a pavilion or two, a communal fire pit, a tiny playground and a very tiny swimming pool. Plus fishing in the pond, I guess. I assume they’d let  kids fish there; didn’t ask. The only thing I didn’t see that you might want is cabins for the non-campers. Possibly they had some or else RVs you could rent. They had a laundry and a little store in the office, too.

The pair of dog parks were wonderful. One for small  dogs; one for large. The large one was huge--my dog loved it.

 For me, though, it wasn’t ideal because the sites were close together (although no closer than usual) and the whole place was lit up at night like an amusement park. There were lights on the lake and street lights and a lot of outside lighting on the other campers, too. There was so much light that it was hard to take my dog for an evening stroll—too much glare to see where I was going. But we went down the entrance road and alongside the lake, which was dark and comfortable.

 We had originally reserved a back-in site but the nice people in the office moved us to “the field” so that we could keep our toad hooked up without sticking out into the drive. They were exceptionally friendly and helpful. Our site was FHU and all of it worked fine.  The site surface was grass and the entrance road was gravel. The road was a little narrow coming in—if RVs were both coming and going at the same time and one of them wasn’t looking ahead, someone would get stuck having to back up. That probably doesn’t happen very often, though.

It wasn’t very far off the interstate, but still very rustic and extremely quiet. We’d stay there again.