4th of July 2014

We are finally moving west.  We are on highway 90 in Minnesota and it turns west in Wisconsin.  We had been moving north since we left Charleston.

I must tell you that I really, really do not like holidays.  Memorial Day wasn’t too bad but 4^th of July this year was the worst.  Everyone everywhere gets their camper out of mothballs or goes to Walmart and buys a tent and they head out for a long weekend at the campground with all the family.  First it makes it hard for me to find a campground to stay because I have to know where we will be staying and that is NOT easy.  The good ones fill up weeks and weeks in advance.  THEY know where they will be staying – they have been planning it for months.  It seems that these northern people do this more than southerners or westerners.  Maybe because of their long winters.

By the time we knew when we would be leaving Kentucky all the government campgrounds were filled up.  Our route was to take us right by the Wisconsin Dells and I sure didn’t want to go there!  It is all about kids and waterslides.  You should see that place – amazing!  Huge indoor water parks!

We ended up at a place in Wisconsin that even Jake didn’t like.  He got all worked up the first day and had an upset stomach for the next two days.  Poor Jake.  I don’t know what it was that set him off but something did.  Kirby had found this place because I was getting so frustrated trying to find something that I liked.  Well, we didn’t realize until we got there that we would have no sewer.  Now there is nothing wrong with not having a sewer.  We do it all the time, but not when we are paying $44/night!

Sky High Camping Resort has over 350 camping sites, not lots, but sites.  Sites which are really close together.  Each site was full for the holiday.  Each site had an average of five to six people on it, most children.  Do the math.  That is TOO many people and dogs in a small space.

Children running and screaming. Dogs barking. Golf carts going by all the time and radios blaring.  This place made me crazy!  It made ME crazy.  It didn’t seem to bother the folks that just do this once or twice a year.  They took tracker rides, played basketball and volleyball, swam in the pool, played miniature golf and drove the golf carts which were for rent, all over the campground.  It was pretty scary to me to be walking Jake and see a golf cart racing towards me with an eight year old driving it!

Actually it gave me a feeling of what a refugee camp would feel like.  Just way too crowded.  And we PAID to get to be there!  Are we dumb or what?  Next year we will plan our whole trip around where we will be for 4^th of July!

The only picture I took the whole time we were there is of our rig on our site.  It was a nice site and we enjoyed the day playing cards at the picnic table and we had dinner outdoors….watching all the people!

Here is the link to our holiday last year.  It was much better.