Marathon Park, Wausau, Wisconsin

   I often use a website called rvparkreviews to find a nice campground.  This is especially handy when we are driving between two points and want to stop after four or five hours of driving.  I just search on towns near our proposed stop and look at the reviews on the available campgrounds.  I have found a lot of nice city and county campgrounds that would not be listed in a commercial directory.  Tonight we are staying in a city park in Wausau, Wisconsin.  There are 40 large sites with electricity in a stand of beautiful white pines.  On this hot weekend night there are 15 sites filled.

    We are a couple miles off the main route through town.  Near some nice restaurants and other services.  We can hear a little road noise, but we are further from the road than in a lot of KOA's.  The ground is covered with pine needles and no campfires are allowed.  Its so hot and humid though I don't miss a fire tonight.

    We certainly drove some back roads today (and several other times this trip).  We have a GPS that has a database which is aware of weight and height limitations on roads - used by truckers.  We put in the size of our camper and towed car and we shouldn't be routed anywhere we can't go.  We left that GPS at home and figured since it is a short trip we would use Google maps.  Well, we haven't had any disasters, but we have been routed on some very narrow back roads.  The driver has been patient with his navigator, but we have had some tense silences.  

     I am looking forward to  in all the nooks and crannies of the camper to pack up a summer's accumulation of snacks, toys, books, and clothes.  We almost always have to go to the storage lot and look through the winterized camper for something we are missing.  

    Then tomorrow we drive home, unload, and start thinking about where to go next summer.