On The Road Again - Ives Run Campground - Ospreys

Finally, after what was planned to be a 6 to 7 week layover in New Hampshire that turned out to be a 13 week layover (see previous post), we are on the road again.  We left New Hampshire on August 9th and stayed at Saratoga Springs Casino in New York (see map below).  Most casinos allow free overnight parking for RV's.  The 10th we stayed at Tioga Downs Casino in Nichols, NY and from there we went to  Ives Run Campground and Recreation Area which is an Army Corps Of Engineers campground near Mansfield, PA.  We stayed there for 8 days.  From there we traveled  to Tionesta Recreation Area in Tionesta, PA (also a Corps Of Engineers campground) which is where we are now We will be here for a week and will post pictures of this place in a couple days. 

The following photos are from around the Ives Run Campground in Tioga, PA (Mansfield, PA area)

Our Campsite (Hammond Lake In Background) - no hookups but between the solar panels and the generator we were fine.

View Of The Campground

View Of The Campground

View Of The Campground From The Boat Landing

The Boat Landing

The Dam 

The Swimming Area

A mating pair of ospreys not far from our campsite - note the fish in the talons of the osprey on the right.  The osprey on the pole was vocalizing very loudly warning the incoming osprey of our presence.  The incoming osprey left with the fish and didn't return until we left the area.

The same osprey with the fish as she departed

Watching us like a hawk (maybe like an osprey)

Bumble Bees On A Thistle

Purple Loosestrife

Some kind of purple thistle - couldn't identify

Yellow Jewel Weed With Seed Pod

Update For Last Few Weeks

We have been in New Hampshire for the past three weeks taking care of some personal business and haven't done a blog post for a while - this will be a quick update of our travels to New Hampshire.

We left Red Bridge Campground in the Allegheny Forest in Western Pennsylvania on May 6th and traveled to Tioga Downs Racetrack and Casino  in Nichols, New York.   We didn't know that the 6th was their opening day for harness racing - the place was absolutely packed - we were very lucky to have found a place to park the camper - if we had arrived later in the day we would not have gotten in as all the parking lots were full and we couldn't have maneuvered the camper to a parking spot - as it was we got there early and were able to park on the edge and out of the way in one of their overflow parking lots.  It is a good thing we didn't have to leave as we were blocked in for several hours.  On the plus side they had an amazing fireworks display that evening that we were able to watch from the camper.  The next day we traveled to another casino and race track in Saratoga, New York that was much less crowded (casinos allow free overnight RV parking which is the reason we stopped at the two casinos).   On the 8th we drove to Mile Away Campground in  Henniker, New Hampshire.  We had a lot of problems getting from New York to Vermont as the first three routes we tried had low bridges crossing the Hudson river.  We ended up going about 50 miles out of our way but we finally made it into Vermont.  We didn't have any problems in Vermont or New Hampshire (other than a mini-snow storm on top of the mountains in Vermont).  We stayed at Mile Away Campground in Henniker, New Hampshire for a couple of days where we emptied all of our holding tanks and  spent a day cleaning the outside of the RV (we planned to look for a new RV in New Hampshire and needed the RV to be presentable if we ended up trading it in).  It was then a very short trip to the Manchester, NH area where we have been staying for the past few weeks.

Our Travels For the Past Few Weeks

All the states we have been in since September 9, 2016 when we sold the house.  We hit most of the East Coast and a few of the contiguous inland states, just missing Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Delaware.

We did buy a new RV - haven't taken delivery yet but we should have it by the 7th of June and are planning a shakedown cruise to Acadia National Park in Maine before we head West.

We will post info about the new RV in the next blog.