Kenisee Lake TT Park & Good Friends

Monday afternoon we arrived at Kenisee Lake 1000 Trails park after about a 120 mile day - Dean's favorite kind!

We found a nice site right next to our friends Nancy and Jake and got set up and settled in.

It was so good seeing them again. It has been a very long time since our paths crossed as they have been going one direction while we were going another. We spent the rest of the day just catching up with each other's lives.

Yesterday we intended to drive to some covered bridges but plans are made to be changed - right? Instead, we drove to Ashtabula to Wal-Mart - what a outing! Really though, we all had stuff we needed and sometimes it is just a necessary thing to do - going to Wal-Mart I mean. We found Dean a barber shop so he could get his first of the month haircut, went to Lowes for Jake to look for a wrench set he wanted to replace and found a local restaurant for a lunch stop.

By the time we got back in the afternoon, it was to late to go in search of the bridges so we just relaxed at home and early evening sat around the bon fire. It's been getting into the 40's here at night and just gets to cold to fast for us southerners to stay out late into the evening and that is the reason for the early bon fire! Hopefully it will start warming just a little bit.

While in Ashtabula we drove over a one of a kind bridge or at least I think it's the last one standing and in use. It is a draw bridge over a inlet of Lake Erie that uses a huge chunk of concrete as a weight to raise the bridge. Interesting. I did get one picture, but I think Dean and I will go back as there was another odd looking bridge that was actually home to a conveyor belt that is used to send something from one side of the inlet to the other. I need to find out what and get a picture of it as well.

Today Nancy and Jake are driving back in the direction we came from and visiting a National Park. Dean and I are doing the covered bridge Tour A which takes us to 12 covered bridges. Nancy and Jake have done this already. Hopefully tomorrow the four of us will do Tour B which takes us to the other five bridges.

To those of you who have 1000 Trails memberships - this is a very nice park. Nice level sites, some in the shade and some in partial shade (that is what we have). Where we are parked there is no problem getting sat. reception for both TV and internet. If you are in this area, I recommend this park.

That's it for now. I'll post again after we do the covered bridge tour today. Until then - stay safe and God Bless....

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