We moved to Pennsylvania last week for a couple of months until we get ready to head to Texas for the winter. We are in Shady Grove in Lancaster County which is a nice campground rebuilding with a new owner. The last owner let it run down a little, now there are about 20 full timers here with another 80 filling in on weekends. It is open ALL year.
Our big adventure last week was to make the Hershey RV Show. Having lived in Hershey we knew it was a great event. Last year there were about 650 units on display, down from the high number of 900+ a few years ago. This year they had around 1200 on display. Now most of the units were smaller TT's, more toy haulers, but still the big class A's, high end 5th and other units we have come to expect. And every dealer I talked to said they were selling units. Who says this is a down economy for the RV industry? At least for the units that are selling - mostly lower cost ones. We did buy some items for our 5th wheel: a folding step, a patio rug for outside and some other small items. See we did our part for the economy.
We got the folding step because our site rolled off drastically on the door side. Our new neighbors, Tim and Cindy loaned us there step so we didn't have a 15" first step. Whew! I get a nose bleed going up and down those steps. Also the hydraulic lifts were at their extreme which caused the RV to sway every time someone walked or the washing machine runs. Also no playing, if you get my meaning. Wife doesn't like the rocking!
When we pulled into the site I tried to get the satellite pulled in but couldn't peak any of them. Looked outside and there were two trees in the way! So off I went to the office as there were three other sites around me that were free, wanted to see if I could move. The owner Don talked with me and told me he had planned to get them down this fall but hadn't done it yet. Could we move for a couple of days and he would get them down? Very accommodating in my book! So on Monday of this week we moved two sites over. That afternoon the crew came in with a tree digger to take down 5 of the trees along the fence. Ours were the first out and today they finished up with number 5. In addition they are going to be putting more stone down and leveling the site to help eliminate the drop off it had before.
This is a video of what the unit looked like taking out the first tree. All gone in about 30 minutes.
Tomorrow we have friends coming in from Chicago who haven't seen our RV yet. Added bonus - they will get to see us pack it up and move two spaces - JUST SO WE COULD GET SATELLITE TV!!!
We'll be back here next year for sure. Until later....
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