I need a new calendar... or memory

Evening, Campers! It's Silver Cliche' here with you again and still parked at Little Bennett Regional Park Campground in Clarksville, Maryland. No, we didn't suffer a breakdown that has disabled our planned progress. When I wrote the other night that I was taking a few days off and would rejoin you tonight from the next stop on our journey I was thinking that our plan was to shove off on Friday. I was wrong. Our plan has always been to leave tomorrow. However, a commitment made is on that must be honored, so here I am writing tonight.

While here in Maryland we've been visiting our daughter and three grands. I've had the honor of walking a princess to school any morning I want... a soon-to-be-eight-years-old princess who is wrapping up the second grade. We've also had the honor of doing chores and home improvement projects since our daughter is planning selling the house they are in. We'll be sad to leave and so will our daughter and granddaughter. The teenage boys will probably look up from their screens in a day or three and say "did Mimi and Grand Dad leave?".

This gives me a chance to talk a bit about trip prep. We've been off our usual travel schedule for 10 days now. Although we've repositioned twice, we spent 4 nights in Buffalo, 1 in Pennsylvania and 5 (including tonight) here in Maryland. In each case we were visiting people, not camping and sightseeing. When we visit we don't shop to fill the fridge, we don't use what we already have on board and after about four days our morning routine includes asking "what is it that's stinking up the fridge?". So by now after 10 days of socializing it's time to restock.

The morning routine will include an early trip to our daughter's house so she and Mrs. C' can hit the big annual volunteer firefighters flea market. I'll do the last of the Mr. Fix-it chores on the list then head to the grocery store for supplies. It's a full recharge on fruit, vegetables, cold cuts, bread, dairy... the works. I'll head back to the campground (it's about 10 or 15 minutes drive), load the supplies on, do a bit of cleaning up, secure everything for travel, top off the water tank, hitch the trailer to the truck, stop at "ye olde dump station" and return to our daughter's house. By lunch time we should be rolling. 

Tomorrow night's stop is Big Meadows Campground on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Forest near Stanley, Virginia. For the next several days we'll pick our way slowly southward along Skyline Drive then it's North Carolina cousin the Blue Ridge Parkway through the Blue Ridge Mountains and eventually into Cherokee, North Carolina.

Until tomorrow!

SC'