Holiday Weekend at Talon Lake

We left Parry Sound KOA about 10:30 AM and had an easy 100 mile drive to Talon Lake Campground and Marina outside of Rutherglen, Ontario.  The campground is about 20 miles south of North Bay.  Our friends, Jeff and Tiffany should be arriving this evening.

The weather here in Canada the last couple of weeks has been great.  It continued into the weekend here and we enjoyed getting used to our new surroundings.

We are right near the lake and can hear boaters come and go.  If we walk a 100 yards we can get some pretty good views of the lake.

The big news after we got set up was that we have no TV reception.  Imagine that ~ camping and we have to dispense with our sports channels.  No TV or golf for a few days.  How will we make it?  

Actually, it is quite nice not to be watching so much TV.  We enjoyed the afternoon and evening which and all pulled out some good books to read.  It was warm and sunny and no bugs....  Pam and Kelly went for a walk over to the other campground nearby and I took a snooze in the sun.

We had dinner outside and watched other campers arrive in the campground.  Down where we are there six or of us.  

The upper part of the campground there are 20 or 30 seasonal campers.  To our surprise a couple from Virginia and another from Vermont parked near us.  Both didn't know each other but had recently spent time in Montana before crossing the border at Ste St Marie.

As you can see from the other RV's there are many ways to do this.  We have one trailer, two pop-ups,  2 class C motor homes and our coach at the campsite.  It is interesting to see the variety.

It was a perfect evening for a campfire and we had some more smorz!

Ed, ever the entertaining and lovable dog, spent a few minutes doing the jiggy wiggles and scratched his back on the grass.  Who doesn't like a good back scratch now and then?  aaahhhh

This looks like it will be a great place to stay for a few days and the weather is supposed to be good while we are here.  Hope you are having a great weekend and summer.

Thanks for joining us on the Roadrunner Chronicles!  

I wonder how many Followers will we pick up this weekend....?

Not so busy Friday

It rained all day yesterday so we didn't feel like doing much.  Mostly we read and read and read.
A little after 9:00 AM, Don came over and dumped our tanks.  What a great service!

Don is the owner of the KOA here in Parry Sound and he didn't think the 'free' service was a big deal.  He said, "We can't have campsites with full hookups, so just sign up when you need your tanks dumped and we will come around and do it."

I like the idea and especially like the fact that he doesn't charge extra for it.  The prices here are among he highest we have paid anywhere, so it is nice that dumping isn't an added charge.  Don has been the owner for seven years and he said it has been interesting.  Seems like a hard way to make a living.  It's one thing to be a workamper, quite another being the owner.  Right now he said he was dealing with kids plugging toilets with reems of toilet paper....

About mid afternoon, the drizzly rain let up and Pam and I drove over to the truck stop/fast food/information center.

It had Lick's Hamburgers, DQ and Tim Horton's.  

And we found our information center.

We were looking for some ideas on how to spend a few days in Toronto next month.  No luck on that one, but the lady said maybe we'd find something in Northbay.  We will be near there next weekend.

After dinner of chicken and dumplings, we went into town to check out the Canadian Tire store.  It is a little like a Wal-Mart.  This one had a lot of camping gear which we checked out.  Next it was over to McDonald's for some ice cream.  And then downtown to see what was happening at the harbor on a Friday nite.  Not much...

So we returned to the Roadrunner and prepared for tomorrow.  Saturday is 'Christmas in July' at the campground here.  We got our decorations out and will put them up on Saturday morning.

That was it for us on a slow Friday.  Hope your weekend is a great one.  And thanks for viewing ~ and thanks in advance to you future Followers!