May 14, 2013

Acorn Campground

New Hogan Lake,

Valley Springs, CA

The WiFi connection here with our MiFi is so slooooooow!

It took me three hours to research possible places to go when we leave here.  It appears that there is no shortage of beautiful places within 100 miles but the problem is that many of them do not open until Memorial Day weekend.  The ones that are already open and can be reserved are already booked up so it looks like we will take our chances that there will be a spot for us on the ones that are first come first served.

I did something I haven’t done in a long time-just sat and read for hours. 

I felt kind of guilty about it because while I was reading Monte was cleaning and treating the seal on our big slide.

  It was a very tight squeeze and it was extremely hot.

I brought a portable battery operated fan up to him and he said it helped a little.

After dinner we took advantage of the showers at the rest rooms.  It cost 50 cents for 5 minutes.  Normally we don’t use public showers but we want to conserve our fresh water and not fill up our gray tank.  By using the public showers we are also saving on propane by not heating the water.

 Luckily both the men’s and women’s showers were available at the same time.  When the water first came on it was ice cold but within a few seconds it became scalding hot and there was no way to regulate the temperature. 

After our showers we walked approximately a mile around the campground and then sat outside until the annoying flies chased us inside.