Beaver Creek Resort in Gaylord, Michigan

We really like this park, so I grabbed a few pictures to help us remember it in case we are back this way again sometime.  The staff is top notch and the facilities are great.  The internet in the lodge is the best we've encountered so far.

Water Slide Fun

Today we hit the water slide here at the park.  There is just not much that is better for summer fun than this!

Big Water Santee

Obviously, we've stayed at a campground or two over the past eighteen months.  They tend to blur together after a bit.  The one we are at now is one I think will continue to stand out in our minds.  The sites are pull through and level and big enough to park our rig and truck on.  We have full hook ups with 50 amps.  The campground is pretty and on a lake.  All good stuff.

What had my heart singing with glee though was the pool area.  There is a fish shaped pool.  There is a pool that has the baby pool built into one end so you can watch your little one play while being in the deeper end yourself.  There is a splash zone.  And there is my all time favorite water park feature: a lazy river.  I think I spent three or four heavenly hours in this part of the campground.  With an hour or so of that time including me reading a book while floating on the lazy river.  I may want to stay here forever.

Living the life in South Carolina!

Clermont FL to Summerton SC

Today was Aric's first official travel day.  I think I was more excited than he was about that.  We drove from Clermont to Summerton, South Carolina.  We are staying at a very nice ROD park.  Since we had a somewhat long driving day, we ate dinner at Cracker Barrel.

It is so nice to be back on the road again! 

Gloucester VA to Gasburg VA

Yesterday we left the Chesapeake Thousand Trails resort to head a short distance to Gasburg, VA.  We didn't want a long driving day because of going to DC the day before and we wanted to see what the resort here was like.  We stayed at Lake Gaston Resort which is a ROD resort.  This was one of the nicest resorts we've stayed at so far.

It was similar to Chesapeake in that it had water and the gorgeous fall colors.  It was very different in one special to Austin way-it had an incredible family center.  He was able to bowl and play racquetball

with Dad right at the resort.  Ask him about the big goose egg on his forehead and he'll happily tell you his sports injury story.  Then he'll tell you how he hurt his Dad too.  Great male bonding times!

Actually, he'll probably tell you about the prime rib dinner he ate here that so impressed him, he is counting down the days until his birthday dinner where he wants prime rib again.  Speaking of impressive, I have to brag on Nathan for a few minutes.  He took the shots in this post and I think they are fabulous!  I used to say we took entirely different shots when we had a camera in our hand but I've noticed our styles are beginning to merge a bit.  Guess that is what happens when you live this.close.together.

He still does zero photo editing, so I grab all of his shots and do with them what I want.  Pretty generous of him, huh?  We really had a great time at this resort, even though we were only there for two nights/one day.  We will come back in the spring and spend a longer time here then.

Coco loves to walk so much that it's a treat to watch her.  She just wants to be outside all the time, most likely because she was used to having a doggie door and a backyard before.  Since we just joined the rest of the world and watched the movie "Up", we find this particular move hysterical:

She is so obsessed with...Squirrel!  Living the life in lovely Virginia.

El Paso, Texas to St. David, Arizona

We finished the second half of this leg of the journey today and landed in St. David, Arizona. We are beginning to forget what civilization looks like after the last three places! We are crossing our fingers that the next stop has at least a Wal-Mart nearby.

The drive went well and we are tickled pink to be in Arizona. We've had a few people tell us that Arizona is one of their favorite places so we've been excited about coming here.

We've already checked out the pool and hot tub and enjoyed both of those!Living the life in Arizona.