Broken bracket

Last weekend I broke a bracket on one of the flip up tables. Ordered a new one Tuesday and it was here Friday. It's all taken care of. Ready for our next trip. But it looks like that will be next Spring before the next outing. Too much going on.

Carlyle Lake, Boulder Illinois

We just returned from a trip to Carlyle Lake. The weather forecast was beautiful. Sunshine and blue skies all weekend.

Thursday, when we got there we had a spot right on the lake. Awesome!

The wind was blowing about 25-30 MPH. Not unusual for Carlyle Lake. We set up and waited for the wind to die down. It never did. Too windy to do much. No campfire, no relaxing looking at the lake. But we did have a beautiful sunset.

Friday was a little better. We made the usual trip to Walmart. It seems every time we going camping we have to make a trip to Walmart.

We were able to get a bike ride in, sat in the sun, and even had a campfire at night.

Saturday we had rain and windy weather. Not exactly the weekend forecast.

Saturday was just a nasty, cold, windy day. The wind blew all night. But we managed to have a good time.

And we had more sunsets.

Today we packed up and came home. Carol still says she loves going to Carlyle.

Kevin's back home - Can you tell?

Family get together

Always a good time.

Sunshine, cool, blue skies. A nice day for a bike ride

A 60th Birthday Party

Tonight we went to a 60th birthday party for Randy. It was fun, good food too!

Carlyle Lake, Boulder Campground, Boulder Illinois

Carol wanted to go camping this weekend at Carlyle Lake. We did not have reservations, we just left Thursday morning to see what we could find. The spot we took was ok but not along the lake like Carol wanted. They were all taken.

We had a good time and we did a lot of bike riding. It was a little warm in the afternoons. It's the middle of August, what did we expect.

It was good to just relax and take it easy. I ate good too, Carol made some awesome food.

Yesterday the weather looked like it could be a problem, big storms. Carol said maybe we should pack up and go home. I told her we couldn't run everytime the weather looked bad. We are both a little concerned after our previous experiences.

This morning at 12:30 AM we woke to big thunder storms and heavy rain. It lasted an hour but the Aliner did ok. We woke up again at 5:00 to heavy rain.

After breakfast I told Carol I was ready to head for home. I don't think she was ready yet but it was going to be another hot day.

The GMC Terrain did good, 18.8 MPG towing and only used a half tank going to Carlyle and back.

We are not sure when our next trip will be, too many things going on.

Another birthday celebration