June 25
drive to the next park
bridge over the Illinois River
This is the first park that had different hours of check in
and check out times. We couldn’t check in until 3:00 so we got a later start
this morning. We drove forever on small roads in between corn & soy bean
fields and I was beginning to wonder if we were staying in a corn field.
Finally, we came to the park which is pretty big and spread out. There are a
lot of people that must keep their RVs here full time and visit on the weekends
or for vacations. Some may live here year-round. It is heavily geared to
families with large play grounds and lots of activities only on the weekends
for kids.
the office & general store
Actually, we feel like we are the only people here right now. When we
walked around the grounds we saw the Green River and the pool and recreation
areas, we did see a couple of other occupied RVs.
The park is on Sleepy Hollow Road. How cute is that?
The office closed right after we arrived. (which is also the
general store) We have no cell phone coverage at all here. Since we use our
phones as hot spots that sucks. I thought I could catch up on the blog, but
that will need to wait until we reach Wisconsin, unless we can find a spot in
town tomorrow.
Oddly, this is the 3rd most expensive park we have stayed in and we aren't sure what the appeal is. Since it's summer and people do go on vacation with their kids, no other short term people are here. It was a nice enough park, just a bit weird to feel like you are the only ones there.
They also gave us wrist bands to wear while we are here. We never put them on, not sure who would have checked them. No social life at all going on here. Maybe for the pool had there been other people here. We don't mind the solitude, but not have phone service was a big negative.
It’s supposed to rain tomorrow, so we may just need to chill
out tomorrow. There are some great birding areas that we hope to investigate.
