Focht Family Blog

My next installment of campgrounds… Twin Lakes RV Park. This is where we stay when the Corp of Engineer parks are closed. They are open year round. Although we have had one of their full hookup sites we prefer the sites right on the lake that are only electric and water. Since the sites directly in front of the lake do not have full hookups we pulled in backwards so that our windshield is facing the lake so we have a better view. This is a picture of sites 81 and 82 in front of the lake.

Here is the view from the front of the RV…

Things I like: The view! This is a quiet park in a nice setting. Still close to my brother when Sawnee is closed.

Things I don’t like: I would obviously prefer that the sites on the lake had a sewer hookup. Also… this park does not have any bathroom, shower, or laundry facilities. The bathroom and showers don’t bother me but I would rather do laundry at the campground than having to find a laundromat.

I have decided to start taking pictures of each campground and make little notes about them so that I can remember the different campgrounds and what we liked about them or didn’t like about them. So here is my first installment of campground pictures.

This is site 20 and 21 at James Island County Park.

Things I like: When you call to make reservations they know which sites are good for receiving satellite signals. When we were here for my surgery we had a pull through site which also had good signal for the satellite. They also have Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi signal was stronger at the pull-through site.

Things I don’t like: The spots are sandy so we are getting a lot of sand tracked in every time the kids go in and out. Pricier than most county/state parks.

We stayed at some pretty campgrounds on this part of the trip so I thought I would share a few pictures. The first two are of the campground in Minnesota, Dakotah Meadows. It is at an Indian Casino.

After leaving Minnesota we spent a week in Iowa at a nice campground on the river called Upper Iowa Resort and Rentals. They are directly on the Upper Iowa River and they are nestled in a valley so this was truly camping. We had no cell phones, no internet, very little satellite TV and no antennae TV. It was a very nice, quiet campground and we caught up on a lot of reading. We also finished school and started our book burnings. Here is a view of the river across from our site.

We found some interesting animal tracks by a fallen tree at the edge of the river. Not sure what made them, though.

Samantha decided it was very interesting that the flowers that grew by the river were much bigger then the flowers growing by the campsites. Here is Samantha showing the difference and then a picture of all three of the children with the flowers.