In case you couldn't picture it

Trent got to tell you how wonderful the RV park was, but unless you see it, it's hard to 'appreciate'. So onto pictures!
The legendary All new bath house:

I found out that this is actually quite a magnet. You see with Dickens RV Park being out in the boonies, but close to a nuclear power plant, coupled with its low rates ($15 a night, what a bah-gain!), it truly is a flocking ground for the union guys that came to work on the outage at the plant. Funny, two nights before we arrived, the park was completely full, even to the point of them doubling up lots. I said all that to say that those folks were truly excited about getting a new bath house. And to its credit, it has nice laundry facilities, and even handicapped showers! Not to mention a bag of ice for a buck (honor system, same as paying for the lot, woah that was unexpected).

This was the site that welcomed us when we arrived:

Pretty house,  pretty field. Thought that might be where we check in, but nope. Kent, who was an extremely nice gentleman met us at the bath house when we arrived and we followed his golf cart to our spot amongst the herd. I should have zoomed in more because if you look closely down the gravel lane, you can see Trent chatting with Paul, who by the way, was like most of the folks there and he contracts with Siemens. Yeah, the same Siemens who sends Trent all over tarnation.

We're like five or six down on the left. Trent did mention there was gravel there, right? Whatever you can picture for gravel, it's not nearly enough. There was more than a plethora, immensely more.

So taking the dogs for a walk was...interesting. This...yes, this right here, doesn't it look like pretty grass???

Well do not be deceived, it's actually green mud. Those are the 30 amp sites, which I'm told was the original park, and the 50 amp sites where we were was an addition. Like Trent said, no bashing on the place, it's not a luxury park or anything, and honestly I don't think we'd go back just because gravel is not my idea of a lounging spot, but we learned a lot about the RV and that was the whole purpose of the trip.

But during the walk, I did get to lay my eyes on the local attraction, i.e. The Plywood Mill. You have to look close to see it beyond the last electric pole there, but the puffs of smoke give it away. It was actually kinda pretty at night all lit up, but I didn't get a picture because I was too busy trying to stay out of the mud, and keep the dogs from trolloping through as well.

The dogs hadn't been in the RV before, but they did really well - even did their regular play fighting to release some energy. They love playing tug of war:

I was going to take a picture of Linus all cuddled up on the couch, but JoJo decided to steal the limelight and jumped up as I snapped the picture. You can almost see Linus in the background.

And he was all about making himself at home. The bed quickly became his favorite place to relax.

Nice, huh?

Linus finally made it into the camera's view, but I think it's only because he thought I had a treat for him!

It's funny that in taking a trip to get away from work this weekend, two thirds of the people there were contracted by Siemens to work the outage at the plant, so work followed Trent. I almost took a picture of the hitching post that boasted a Siemens breaker, but Trent thought I was just being silly then, so I refrained, as far as you know.

All in all, it was a good trip. Like I said, we learned about our RV, we met some really nice people, and we are looking forward to our next trip already! Seeing a happy face when we put it back in storage means it was a good trip, no aggravation!