SITTING, WATCHING & ENJOYING ON THE MISSISSIPPI CAMP#58

  Being that we're camped for a week at Buffalo Shores CG (a county run CG), we've got time to meet neighbors and do a lot of people watching. It's fun to see other folk's style of camping, especially the folks that only get a few days per year to get away. Most of 'em have kids with them and most have their pets.Totally different crowd than we meet in the "off" season. Most of the pets, dogs, are not socialized to the RV lifestyle, so we listen to a lot of barking. Oh, Joy, what fun!! Of course they all have their "toys" with them or they run home and make 4 trips to get them all here. Jet skis, boats, surfboards, tubes, bikes, etc..WOW...a lot of effort! We've been watching all the manuvers to guarentee a spot for the holidays weekend. Get set up and planted by Thursday afternoon and stake your claim. Of course they all arrive with "tribe" in tow on Friday and it's an immediate Happy Hour and by 7PM the fun is done. They get the kids in bed by 8PM and finally the park is quieting down. PHEWWW!!
 Of course, the working crowd will be up by 0700 and will be starting their diesel trucks, radios blaring, so they can go out to breakfast. Real Camping, ehh?
  Since we're only 50' from the Mississippi River

we've been able to watch a lot of barge traffic traversing upbound and downbound. It's amazing how slowly they move. Gotta be a good job to have. Our CG has a nice beach and from what we hear, it'll be packed this weekend.
   We've decided to replace our AC with a new one but we'll wait til we settle down in Mississippi at Magic River CG about a month from now. The temps are supposed to go down next week and so far it's been tollerable with the fans on full speed. Of course we have other means of putting up with the heat. Cold showers and standing under a spray from the hose and dunking in the river is actually rather fun. Remember when we were kids?? Noticed the neighbors laughing while watching us. I keep inviteing them to join us but they're too old for such nonsense---AWWW!!
Hope ya'll have as great a weekend as we will.

REMEMBER, LIVE YOUR DREAMS AS TIME GOES BY QUICKLY !!
Charlie & Heather