Now let me tell you, we are getting to know “The Rake” pretty good…Each weekend, the campground is full so on Monday we have our work cut out for us. By 10am we are in the golf cart and heading towards our first camping site to put the rake marks deep into the gravel and clean out the fire pits. All this to give the next camper the best looking campsite they have ever seen. As always, there are those that live close enough to Farragut that they could care less that check-out time is 1pm. That makes it a little difficult because in some cases there is someone that wants to move into their site at 2 and we haven’t had a chance to clean it. Well now that school has started, we don’t see this happening so much anymore, camping the week days is getting pretty quiet. This does give us enough free time to go for long walks. For the last couple of weeks, our week days have shown us about a dozen campers each night. Now we’re back into the weekend, and we are FULL (over 40 sites)… Another thing that has changed, Farragut is no longer taking reservations for their camping sites…a little more confusion and work for all of us. We’ve had to make a few phone calls to the visitor’s center and negotiate a new site for those finding someone already in “their” location. Oh well, I must say, we are really enjoying ourselves here in our first role of “Host’s”. We’ve taken a couple of days off each week. Last Tuesday we went into Coeur d’Alene and had the tires cross-switched, checked our email, and did some grocery shopping. On Wednesday I went again to CDA and had breakfast with Larry and Pauline. Later we drove over to Spirit Lake (about 12 miles away). It’s been over 25 years since the last time we were there, and I really didn’t recognize it. If this little village was just outside of a larger city than Spokane, it would be a tourist “Mecca”. The quaint little stores sitting at the edge of a beautiful lake…nothing but a storybook that is ready to be read. There have also been a lot of things going on here at Farragut besides camping. Last weekend Farragut hosted 800 boys to a Boy Scout Jamboree. Today Farragut hosted the annual cross-country race. There were about 50 busses that carried over 800 junior and senior high runners from 4 states. Unfortunately, we were so busy here that we didn’t have a chance to watch any of the races. Later this afternoon we attended a memorial to Rick, the host that passed away a couple of weeks ago. It was a very nice gathering of his family, rangers of Farragut, other camp host’s, and friends.
23 September ‘06
Now let me tell you, we are getting to know “The Rake” pretty good…Each weekend, the campground is full so on Monday we have our work cut out for us. By 10am we are in the golf cart and heading towards our first camping site to put the rake marks deep into the gravel and clean out the fire pits. All this to give the next camper the best looking campsite they have ever seen. As always, there are those that live close enough to Farragut that they could care less that check-out time is 1pm. That makes it a little difficult because in some cases there is someone that wants to move into their site at 2 and we haven’t had a chance to clean it. Well now that school has started, we don’t see this happening so much anymore, camping the week days is getting pretty quiet. This does give us enough free time to go for long walks. For the last couple of weeks, our week days have shown us about a dozen campers each night. Now we’re back into the weekend, and we are FULL (over 40 sites)… Another thing that has changed, Farragut is no longer taking reservations for their camping sites…a little more confusion and work for all of us. We’ve had to make a few phone calls to the visitor’s center and negotiate a new site for those finding someone already in “their” location. Oh well, I must say, we are really enjoying ourselves here in our first role of “Host’s”. We’ve taken a couple of days off each week. Last Tuesday we went into Coeur d’Alene and had the tires cross-switched, checked our email, and did some grocery shopping. On Wednesday I went again to CDA and had breakfast with Larry and Pauline. Later we drove over to Spirit Lake (about 12 miles away). It’s been over 25 years since the last time we were there, and I really didn’t recognize it. If this little village was just outside of a larger city than Spokane, it would be a tourist “Mecca”. The quaint little stores sitting at the edge of a beautiful lake…nothing but a storybook that is ready to be read. There have also been a lot of things going on here at Farragut besides camping. Last weekend Farragut hosted 800 boys to a Boy Scout Jamboree. Today Farragut hosted the annual cross-country race. There were about 50 busses that carried over 800 junior and senior high runners from 4 states. Unfortunately, we were so busy here that we didn’t have a chance to watch any of the races. Later this afternoon we attended a memorial to Rick, the host that passed away a couple of weeks ago. It was a very nice gathering of his family, rangers of Farragut, other camp host’s, and friends.
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