June 8, 2012

We drove a total of 59 miles today and some of that was when we were looking for geocaches.  Yesterday we drove 264 miles.  The weekend was upon us and we needed to find a place to stay before everyone else got off work and into the parks.  Jim drove about 5 miles out of Burlington to John Redman Reservoir and we went into three different campgrounds.  He really didn’t like any of the sites.  I liked them because there was hardly anyone there.  The first one we went through had one RV and the second one had none.  The third had about ten.  We continued on to Melvern Lake Corps of Engineers campground and they only had one space left. All sites were reserved for the weekend. The one that was not reserved was a handicap site and they let us have it.

We got set up and sat outside and saw a gorgeous bright yellow/orange Baltimore Oriole.  It was in the tree beside us.  Afterward we played a round of dominos.  Then we decided to go geocaching.  We found three.  The first was really easy.  The second, Jim had to climb a tree.  The third, we had to wade through underbrush and poison ivy.  We went back to camp and had a bunch of leftovers. We took pictures of the sunset and watched the Astros game on TV.