We landed this afternoon at Ely KOA Journey, pretty much right in the middle of Nevada, elevation, 6500 ft. This is just a stop-over for a night, but it really is a nice campground. We plan to drive around this after and check out the town.
From here we're heading north to Idaho. Our first stop is a place called Anderson Camp. We plan to spend a couple of days there so we can check out Shoshone Falls and what's left of Twin Falls
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The trip to Harbor View is another fun-filled nightmare of no-shouldered backroads, but very doable. The campground assigns you a site and escorts you to its location. It probably wasn't the site I would have chosen, but the next day really great people moved in across the way, which made the site perfect.
The trip to Harbor View is another fun-filled nightmare of no-shouldered backroads, but very doable. The campground assigns you a site and escorts you to its location. It probably wasn't the site I would have chosen, but the next day really great people moved in across the way, which made the site perfect. The campground is nice, but like a lot of the Thousand Trails parks, it could use some work. It looks like projects that got started years ago never got finished and things like the tennis courts were just let go. The very small game room was the only "Rec Center" available. There was a larger room that was locked up for special events. Repaving the main road and adding more gravel to the camping loops and sites would go a long way. Sometimes I get too critical of these membership campgrounds, but they are what they are. Overall the campground had a good camping feel, lots of trees, green grass, and friendly people. We would certainly return there in the future.
We chose Harbor View because it was the closest campground in our network of membership campgrounds to Washington DC. It was sixty-some miles to a Metro station and a quick train ride into the city. On our visit to the capital, we spent four and a half hours of our day traveling to and from the city. Once in the city we walked a little over six miles and took in as much of the city as we could during our short visit. To see the city, you really need to stay in the city and take a week or two. We did manage to visit several memorials, spend part of an hour in the American History Museum (Smithsonian), eat off a "roach-coach" with an albino squirrel (probably the most photographed squirrel in the city), and join the poor people's march. (Fight Poverty, Not the Poor) It's too bad the drive kept us from spending more than just one day.
Just five miles down the road from the campground is Popes Creek, Washington's birthplace. It's a 500 plus acre park with a nice visitor's center and offers an hour or so walking tour with a park ranger. It is well worth the visit. We learned quite a bit. The one thing that stuck with me was that King George would give colonial farmers three free acres for every slave that they owned in hopes of controlling more land than Spain or France in the Americas. We also visited Westmoreland State Park which has a nice campground, a beautiful pool, and a beach along the Potomac River that was great for hunting shark teeth fossils. Finally, on our last day, we checked out the town of Colonial Beach. Along the beach road, were osprey nests every other block and we got to see about a dozen osprey in about a half-mile strip.
Campground number one hundred six. June 21, 2018
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Here is a quick list of the state parks that we've visited
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