July 25: Cumberland Lake Camping

It was very tight getting into this camp site. It took us probably 20 minutes to get backed in. Now we have to step over the picnic table to get to the back of the camper where we have a fire pit and our lawn chairs. I'm not sure how we're going to get out. The turn at the bottom of the hill wasn't even negotiable with the truck this afternoon when we decided to come to laundry.

And the boat ramp is about 400 to 500 feet long (the lake is down 50' while they do dam repairs) and it looks like the first hill on any roller coaster.






Reception is so low here - how low is it? I'm not even going to bother to blog while in camp. We're in Somerset, KY now doing laundry. I'm sitting in the parking lot blogging. We probably won't get out of camp again until we leave here Wednesday. We've already been on the lake and Cumberland Lake is huge. Fifty miles long with a lot of river added to that. We're at the far north end of the lake. They say that people come from all over the country to vacation at this lake. The water is pretty and about 84 deg. We were going to go out today but it started raining. Here's a picture of Larry sitting outside out camper under an umbrella in the rain. I was inside finishing up a murder mystery.




We also don't have any satellite reception and only one TV channel - the CW channel. Larry watched a show last night that would have never watched normally. Couple of guys prancing thru peoples' dreams. Kinda confusing. So we sit and watch Mother Nature and I'm getting a lot of reading done. Larry's bird feeder is feeding several Tufted Titmice, a couple of black and white warblers and I saw one Carolina Wren. The humming bird feeder is active and we saw a chipmunk this morning. Not suppose to be an active area for bears.

We stopped on the way in today at a local corner produce market and got some corn, green beans and peaches. We'll be shucking corn and snapping beans tonight. We will eat here somewhere for dinner today but we'll be at camp for the rest of the meals. The entire campground is built on the side of a hill, so you're either walking uphill or downhill. Great exercise. Not to mention the walk back up the boat ramp to get the truck to back down to pick up the jet ski. Great practice in backing up that short tongued trailer.

Gotta go finish up laundry. If you don't hear from me until next week - you now know why.