We decided to take a short, local trip. Joyce found the Panther Lake Campground on the Internet. It is located out I-80 and north on US Route 206 in Andover, just 38 miles from home.
We had a leisurely trip out to the campsite, checked in, and went to set up the RV on our assigned site with water, electric, and sewer To level to rig on this site, the front tires were 6 to 8 inches off the ground. This is not the way you want to spend four days. We tried another site which was marginally better, the tires were only two inches off the ground. I was unable to lock on the satellite dish for TV. We moved, again, to a site with only water and electric. Leveling the rig was a snap as the site was almost level to begin with. The satellite dish locked onto the three satillites quickly. Joyce had to see "Dancing with the Stars".
The campground was well kept, but very empty. In the area where we finally ended up, The Cloverfield, was set up for both RV's and tent camping. The campground catered mostly to seasonal campers rather than transiants, those of us that don't spend the Memorial Day to Labor Day season in one place. There were a lot of the "two story" trailers there. The second story is only 4 feet or so high. Not a place to sit up in bed and read.
The only excitement during this trip was that we lost two sets of keys, Joyce's house keys and the second set of RV keys. We made sure that we had the RV keys in our hand before we locked the door of the rig. We searched the rig from top to bottom, front to back a couple of times. As it turned out, we found the RV keys between the front doors of the house when we got home and the house/car keys in the kitchen. It would have been a pain replacing one or both of the sets.
We took a number of trips around the area. We found a antique shop or two, a small outlet center, and a really nice gift shop in Andover.
Panther Lake is a campground that we would go back to.
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