Campground Host - Richardson Lake

Monday - June 26, 2017 – Richardson Lake National Forest Campground

Temps: High 61º, Low 46º

Today we begin a 5 week stay at Richardson Lake National Forest Campground as campground hosts. Dennis was here last year in July. I came up for weekend or week stays since I was still working. This year I plan on being here most of the time with occasional visits back home.

Sunday morning Dennis left our house around 9:30 with the camper. I followed with the car about a half hour later. It is about a 2 ½ hour drive so we were in no hurry. He stopped in Carter at the casino to fill with water. I stopped also. Once to buy some maple syrup and then at the grocery store in Lakewood to get a pizza. It is supposed to be chilly tonight so heating the oven for pizza will help to warm up the camper. He waited for me at the campground so I could help get the camper backed into the site. Large site but needed to do an S curve with the camper to get it in. Success! Dennis is getting pretty go at backing this thing! In the evening we ate pizza and played a couple of games of Yahtzee. I won two. Yahoo! Can only get two TV channels here so we will need to find alternate entertainment.

This is quite the departure from where we were two weeks ago where we had full hook ups. However in Goshen we could practically reach through our window and touch the neighboring units. Here the sites are spaced quite far apart and at the moment there is only one other camper.

Where we are parked: Richardson Lake National Forest Campground, Site 8, $12/night, no electric, water, sewer or dump station. Hand pumps and pit toilets. Potawatomi Casino is only 8 miles away and has water and electric sites and a dump station and is free for maximum of three nights. We can go there to dump and get water.