Lessons from Our Fall Road Trip
/Our fall road trip was 5 days – 2 nights camping in southern Virginia and 2 nights at the Snowshoe Ski Resort. It was an enjoyable time away from home and, like most travels, a learning experience.
We had not camped for more than 20 years and the type of camping at the Staunton River Star Party was different than we’d ever done before. We learned that:
We can indeed both sleep in the car…but it is a pretty tight fit.- The food is reasonably priced and tasty. We’ll still take an ice chest next year…but buy more from the vendor.
- The facilities at the park (like hot showers) make it easy to imagine a camping for longer than 2 nights. We’ll probably stay for more than 2 nights next year.
- We need to figure out how to create our own shade for during the day on the field. It can still get warm in the afternoons in early October.
Several lessons from the West Virginia portion of the trip:
- Cell phone reception is not good in the mountains. In fact – don’t count on it at all.
- The Snowshoe Resort is empty in October…and almost everything is closed. It seemed eerie to not have more people about. I might stay at the base of the mountain next time although I did enjoy the sunsets from the window of our efficiency.
The efficiency had a queen sized Murphy bed. When it was folded up – a table folded down into the space where the bed would be later. It is very appealing to use space so efficiently. I tucked the idea away for application if I ever do extreme downsizing.
