1/24/2011 Summer Plans are Firming Up

Bob and I have decided that we want to volunteer as camp hosts this summer but not in just one place. We want to spend a little time here and a little time there and really get to see some place new to us. We didn’t know how we were going to accomplish this because most campgrounds take on camp hosts for the entire season. We decided early on that we didn’t want to be in a privately owned campground but rather a state park or national park and let’s not forget the Corp of Engineer parks.

In December we started filling out online applications for the Dakota’s, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. We were upfront in the time period that we wanted and we got what we wanted!

So on May 17th we have to be at Lake Metagoshe State Park in North Dakota. It’s in the most northern part of N.D. as we’re only about 20 miles from the Canadian border. I’m sure we’ll have chilly weather. We’ll be here until June 21st as camp host and have to put in 15 hours each per week.

From there we’ll go to Icelandic State Park which is further south, thank heavens! This campground is situated on Lake Renwick. We won’t be camp hosts here we’ll be doing the landscaping for the Visitor’s Center. Planting the flowers, mulching, weeding, watering and deadheading the plants. This will run from June 22nd to July 14th and we’ll be required to give them 10 hours each in exchange for our full hook up site.

On the 15th of July we’ll be camp host at Cottonwood Campground near Theodore Roosevelt National Park. This is our longest gig which will take us to Labor Day.

We’ll have lots of free time and there is so much to see in the different areas.

We are going to try to get a short gig in Oklahoma on our way but if that doesn’t work then we’ll stay here in AZ as long as we can stand it and then start moving north. April is much too early to start traveling that far north,,,they could still get snow and we just don’t do the white stuff anymore.