About 2 hours today to get to our campground north of Richmond. I made reservations here last fall, as soon as we decided to make the trip. We'll be here for 2 weeks, so I was hoping the place would turn out to be at least clean and comfortable. Well, it is that and more. When registering, I told the manager we'd be away for four days next week, leaving the trailer here. I hoped they'd have somewhere we could park it, at a reduced cost. But she said we should just leave it in our site and wouldn't be charged at all for those four days. And while she was at it, she gave us a discount for the other days we'll be here, even though I thought their $30 rate was pretty reasonable. Our campsite is adjacent to the office/community room, which is good because they have free waffles there every morning, except Thursdays (like today) when they have free hot dogs and such stuff. The showers and laundry room are also in that HQ building. This is all true. We've been in over 70 campgrounds this summer, and none approach this for comfort, amenities, and freebies. Only negative is that the campground is right beside I-95, so we get traffic noise, but it isn't loud and I don't expect it will bother us.
Soon after we set up camp, we were surprised when old cycling friends from Florida, Ron and Cheryl Adams, pulled into the next site with their big new RV rig. If these bike races are anything like the Olympics in '96, we may see other people we know as well.
Don't know if I'll have anything of general interest to add to this blog for the next few days. Tomorrow night is the opening ceremony and the Adamses have extra tickets for us. Saturday is a practice day for time trial teams and individual racers. Sunday through Wednesday are time trials, and Thursday through next Sunday are road races over a mostly-downtown circuit. Should be fun to watch. Our general plan is to park where we can and then get around by bike. The weather forecast for the next ten days is for no rain and temperatures of 60-80.
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