Campground Etiquette

Traveling
Give me a minute while I hop onto my soapbox.  Joe and I have been campers for over forty years and looking back over those forty years things have really changed.  Campgrounds are getting busier especially on weekends.  Families are enjoying the great outdoors with bigger and better campers, their kids, their bikes, their dogs, and their fun which is great.  What they are forgetting is that other people are also camping next to them who don’t care to have their kids, their dogs, their loud music or televisions blaring into their campsite.  I wish when we checked into Winton Woods they would hand a list of “Campground Etiquette” to campers, not that they would read it.  Some campgrounds actually do include etiquette with their rules. Winton Woods County Campground…
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Ohio- Visiting Family

Ohio- Visiting Family

County Parks
We just spent nineteen days in Winton Woods Campground in the Cincinnati area.  This is always our “home” in Zach and Lauren’s area when visiting them.  We always leave there saying the same thing, nice park, a little too busy, too expensive, but our only option in that area.  One of the things we love about the campground is the 2 mile paved walking trail around Winton Lake. It was great spending time with our son Zach and his wife Lauren.  They love to find a new place for us to try for dinner and this time it was Terry’s Turf.  Their specialty is gourmet burgers which were truly yummy.  But as wonderful as the food was the ambiance was even better.  The place was very tiny, seating about 25…
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The Beauty of Central Florida’s County Parks

The Beauty of Central Florida’s County Parks

Campgrounds, County Parks, Full-Time RVing
We are just wrapping up a five week stay in four of central Florida’s county parks.  Each one was different in size and beauty.  Each one was different in the people that were staying in them.  The first one was in Palm Beach County, John Prince Park, Lake Worth.  This was the largest of the four parks we stayed in.  It was 700 acres with 300 campsites and miles of paved biking & walking paths which we enjoyed daily that went around lakes and past huge oak trees full of birds.  The park was winter home to a couple of hundred snowbirds mostly French speaking Canadians.  We were put in the part of the park where people came and went.  First weekend we were there we were surrounded by families…
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