The difference between staying at a private resort and either a state park or if you are lucky enough to find a Corp of Engineer Park is the people.  There are probably a lot of other differences that I could name like the sites are normally larger and spaced farther apart, they usually have fewer sites, and they don’t have all the amenities that snowbirds are looking for at the resorts  but the one thing that always sticks out to us is the people.  When you stay at a “snowbird” resort the people are in their clicks or groups that they have established over the years and they are there for at least the three winter months and are not very willing to welcome us transient RVers (people like us…

Brrrrrrr!  Going from 80 degrees for weeks in Florida to the cold of Minnesota was a shock but we could easily put up with the cold weather being able to spend time with all of our kids and their spouses (they are our kids also) and of course little Cate.  We left our 5th wheel and the truck at a RV resort in Fort Myers, Ivy, our dog, at a dog daycare in Naples and flew to Minneapolis a few days before Christmas.  We rented a car which was a new experience for us.  Of course the company we had rented from had the longest line at the airport so we had a long wait to get our car.  We had requested a compact car and when we got to…