The Trip to Wisconsin Part 5 - Ten Days at Cliffside

The trip to Wisconsin concludes at Cliffside Park. We are here for the next ten days. After that, we drop the travel trailer off in Indiana at the factory for warranty repairs. Then we will drive home to Texas stopping at an Eva friendly hotel on the way. Then I will make a trip back up in October to retrieve it.

Eva has taken to camping just fine but presents certain issues that you would expect with most seven month old high drive puppies. She is fine inside the trailer and has adopted our home routine to camping. Every morning we go out while it’s still dark, she does her morning business, and then we return to the trailer. Next she has her breakfast and then I have my coffee. Once it’s light out, but before everyone is outside their campers, we go for a long walk.

Eva has been a bit of a struggle on the walks.a At home she does great, here she is stubborn and pulls on the leash a lot. In addition she always looking for some half rotted stick to chew on. The barking has gotten better for the most part, but it’s a Shepherd thing. Every rabbit, squirrel, dog, or fellow camper gives her an opportunity to either voice her disapproval or pull hard to go in that direction. She is wearing me down.

Our first full day at Cliffside was greeted with a lot of thunderstorms. Originally these storms were supposed to be from 1:00 to 2:00AM. However they came late and then lasted from about 5:00AM to Noon. This was a bad storm with high winds and a lot of lightening.

Eva and I went out of the camper at one point to try and sneak in a potty break. The trees were blowing around to the point where I just didn’t feel safe; so we retreated back into the camper. After the storm passed the hot muggy weather and misquitoes returned.

The campground is pretty much empty at this point and I spend a lot of time trying to get satellite reception for TV, but site 1 is just not a good site for that. Almost any other site would probably have a decent view of the southern sky. So unfortunately it will be air TV for us and that’s fine. A quick search netted 58 air tv channels, so that’s plenty.

We were lucky to have some really nice neighbors through Wednesday, Steve and Karen. They are a full-time RV couple, that are based out of South Dakota but originally from Illinois. They are Shepherd people so they understand Eva. We had a lot in common; Steve is as obsessive over his camper in the same way I am. I was hoping they’d be here longer but they were heading to another campground with a return to Cliffside after we are gone. It’s always great to meet nice folks.

Our Grandson Trent is visiting us during the week. My daughter has started teaching and Trent still has a few weeks before he goes back to school. We have a lot of games in the trailer and they have some decent playgrounds here at the park.

The temperatures are still predicted to be hot until Thursday afternoon. Then apparently some very strong winds, hail, and tornadoes are possible. There’s a tree over the travel trailer that looks almost dead so I’m not thrilled about any forecast that might predict damaging winds. When I get back to Texas I’m going to call the campground office and tell them that they should remove that tree.