We stayed at the RV park today to relax and work on “at home” things. Linda worked on her counted cross-stitch and did a load of laundry. I dumped our waste tanks and filled our fresh water tank and then worked on our blog, and checked e-mail, and RVillage. We are now getting about 70 spam comments on our blog every 24 hours and so far the Akismet plug-in/service has been 100% accurate in trapping them while allowing legitimate comments through for moderation or posting if previously approved. We learned about this plug-in from Chris and Cherie of Technomadia when we stopped to visit them in Billings, Montana in late July, 2013.
Linda reading in the shade of our rig at CCRVCG.
We decided to extend our stay at CCRVCG another day and Linda took care of that with the office. We are definitely leaving on Saturday morning. Our current plan is to continue on I-65 into Indiana and spend the night somewhere near Columbus. We researched places to stay but did not make any decisions. We will move to an RV park near Coldwater, Michigan for Sunday evening, and arrive home on Monday with empty holding tanks.
Sometimes staying in the RV park leads to interesting things. When we got back to Cave Country RV Campground yesterday we noticed several Airstream trailers parked together near the activities building at the end of our row. Linda commented at the time that it looked like they might be early arrivals for an Airstream rally. That turned out to almost be correct. As the day progressed a steady flow of Airstream trailers came into the park, along with three Airstream motorhomes; two class A’s and a Sprinter-based class B. By dinner time there were 26 Airstream RV’s in the campground. Other RV’s had also arrived and the campground was almost full. Linda learned (while doing laundry) that 25 of the Airstreams, including the three motorhomes, were participating in a 21-day caravan of Kentucky organized by the Wally Byam Caravan Club International (WBCCI).
We watched as the participants walked down to the activities building for what we presumed was a kickoff dinner meeting and I took that as an opportunity to photograph their rigs in the late afternoon light. I have put a selection of photos in a separate gallery post. We learned in conversation that the caravan was a highly planned, all inclusive, and pre-paid experience. All RV park registrations and fees, all entrance fees, and all meals were included in the price. Participating rigs each received a 3-ring binder containing all of the information they needed for the duration of the caravan. Just follow the Airstream in front of you and park where you are assigned and everything else is handled. We also figured out on our own that each caravan appears to have a special decal. I saw a woman putting a bright yellow cutout of the profile of a running horse on the back of her trailer shortly after it was parked and set up. While walking the campground after dinner we noticed that most of the Airstreams had added this same decal to their collection, which was different for each rig.
Our female cat, Juniper, in the sunlight.
There is a Fleetwood Discovery motorhome parked opposite our site and the owner came over to chat for a while. He turned out to be a recently semi-retired tugboat captain who had spent many years working ships in and out of the Crystal River, Florida powerplant. If you hang around the campground and stay outside where folks can see you, they will stop and say “hi” and you will likely meet someone interesting. Yesterday we had someone knock on the door. He was a fellow ham (amateur radio operator) who saw the Amateur Radio vanity license plate on our car while walking the campground and stopped to chat.
At 8:30 PM CDT we connected to a live video chat on blogging for RVers that Technomadia (Chris Dunphy and Cherie Ve Ard) was doing with assistance from the Snowmads (Jason and Kristin Snow). Our WiFi connection was sufficient to connect to their low-resolution video with good audio transmission.
