Memorial Day was coming up quick, and we just hadn’t thought about reserving a site too far ahead of time…oops. Within 8 days before during and including Memorial Day, we ended up staying in 4 campgrounds. It wasn’t ideal, but we made it work. We like not planning far ahead but, around holidays (especially 3 day weekends) we have learned that planning ahead is the smarter thing.
Our first reservation was at an Army Corps of Engineers campground, Acorn. We were there for 2 nights, and our Ring doorbell caught the best picture we have had this entire journey. Aaron and were snoring away while a visitor wandered past our door. Luckily, our Ring doorbell never sleeps. We had two nights there and then we were moving on to Orland Buttes for one night before we got to our home for the Labor Day weekend at Sycamore Grove. All of these spots were no electricity and no water hookups. But the parks did have places we could access water to refill our tanks.
My sunrise shot wasn’t as good as Ring’s. This piece of driftwood was a bit creepy, and my pocket turtle a very dear friend of mine made had a beautiful view.
We moved from Acorn to Orland Buttes for just one night. We really liked that campground and plan on going back again when we can spend more than one night. One night stays with no hookups make it easy to move on the next day. We usually don’t even unhook the Airstream from the truck unless it is necessary to level out the camper.
We enjoyed a peaceful night and hit the road first thing in the morning.
We arrived at Sycamore Grove on the Friday before Memorial Day and spent the whole weekend there. This campground has a mix of sites, some with water and electric and some without. Because we made our reservation so late, only the sites without were available. We needed to refill our water tank and there was a spicket next to our site, but even though it had potable water the spout was intentionally made so that no water hose can be hooked up. Our neighbor across the street noticed us trying to fill our tank and kindly offered us his water hookup to fill our tank. So, we ran our hose across the street, and filled her up. We were very thankful for such a friendly neighbor. This campground had more people in tents camping than any other we had stayed at so far. It brought back a lot of memories for both of us. As a kid, my family camped for vacation quite a lot. Aaron and I also tent camped with our kids quite a bit when they were younger. Great memories that I wouldn’t trade for anything. But now I wouldn’t trade my mattress for a sleeping on the ground for anything either.
We enjoyed the biking/walking trails, good weather and some downtime (for Aaron). Then, it was time to move on again. Our next stop was a 2 week stay at Buckhorn campground on Black Butte Lake. It was Memorial Day and moving day and our 4th campground in 7 days. This was another Army Corps of Engineers campground and another campground without any hookups. We packed up, picked up, hooked up, and headed out. This one was going to be the longest stay without hookups or moving or emptying our holding tanks.
Black Butte Lake
Wandering Cindi 