Stay Away from the Chez KOA

Narragansett RI to Pine Grove, PA 348 Miles
Day 50

Tuesday June 16, 2009

Cold and damp as we awoke on our last morning in RI…we’re so outta here! We were paid up until check out on Thursday morning, but the weather was not cooperating. Wednesday is reported to be fairly nice, but we didn’t want to suffer through today to enjoy it.

We were almost ready to leave when we hit a little snag in our plans. One of the last steps is to pull the slide-out room in and secure it with two stabilizer bars. Today one of those bars snapped as he tried to lock it in place. Stop, unhook the Jeep and find someone who can weld this thing before we hit the road. Luckily, this is an area with many large boats so we just traveled down the road until we spotted a welding shop. Luckily the man was able to weld it right away. We only lost about an hour of travel time. Plus a little bonus, while waiting for the welding I turned on the lap top to write the blog on Live Writer and discovered I had a WIFI signal. Yippee, I got to surf a little!

Traveling all day, we never saw the sun. Heavy clouds, but no rain. Apparently the entire northeast has had a very rainy, cool and damp spring. We thought that by the time we drove all this way to southern PA we’d hit the warm weather….not.

Campgrounds are few and far between on I81 in Pa. We found a KOA, six miles off the highway. Most KOA campgrounds are much closer to the highways, but there’s nothing else around.

Dreary afternoon at the KOA in Pine Grove, PA

It’s a nice place. They have a large restaurant by the office. We went to at 6:30 and no one was eating there. That should have been a clue…but noooooo, we ordered anyway. I mean…how bad can it be? Oh Lord.

I ordered 1/4 barbecued chicken, green beans and corn bread. I asked the girl for dark meat (thigh and leg) what I got was a wing with about 2 inches of breast meat attached and it was dried out and ice cold on the inside. I ate a piece of the wing and took the cold chicken home to the dogs. The dish of green beans was RAW(not just crisp -RAW, and the corn muffin weighed about half a pound… Never eat anything that is way heavier than it should be, the extra weight is usually grease.
Jim’s sandwich was just okay. Well, there’s a meal I won’t have to worry about gaining weight!

We walked around the campground, which is on a hill so we, at least, got some exercise. WIFI is only at the office….which is quite far down the hill. I don’t need the internet badly enough to make the effort tonight. We’re tired, long ride today.

Tomorrow, hopefully we can find some sunlight! By the look of the weather map we should. We would like to spend our last few days of this trip at the outer banks of North Carolina, or somewhere on the ocean. BUT, if the weather is not cooperative, we may just head on home.

Seems like we’ve been gone forever!