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Monday, October 19, 2015

A Place to Call Home

Realizing that the park we had planned to spend the summer in was not going to be up and running when we got home left us in quite a predicament as there are not many RV parks near Rochester.  After much correspondence back and forth with Mike and Sue Curran at Southwoods RV Resort in Byron, NY we were able to secure a site for the summer but at the monthly rate.  They had no seasonal sites available, and have a waiting list which we had been on for five years.  We were willing to take whatever they had just to get our foot in the door so to speak.

We left Florida around April 10th stopping the first night at Barnyard RV Park in Lexington, SC.  It was not a bad little park for a night, not far off the beaten path with good size pull-thrus.

Our second night we stopped at Flatwoods KOA in Sutton, WV.  I absolutely loved this park for some reason, but unfortunately deleted the pictures of it off my camera by mistake.  It is run by a Days Inn Hotel and right off of I-79. The campground is behind the hotel and down a small hill.  There were several pull thrus to accommodate larger rigs.   It was probably the nicest KOA we have seen, with impeccable restrooms and showers, as well as an amphitheater, large outdoor group fire pit and cabins.  

Our next stop was at Camping World in Hamburg, NY.  We needed to drop the 5th wheel off for some warranty work.  We spent a month at the kids house (spoiling our granddaughter) only to find that after that month they had not touched the RV.  We picked it up and continued on to Southwoods RV Resort with the decision to have the work done somewhere else.

We arrived at Southwoods the second week in May and were given site W23.  It was a nice site in the older section of the park.  It was rather difficult to maneuver as it was a pull-in site (not pull thru), made for a motor home.  We had to pull in at an angle in order to disconnect and get the truck out but it worked out better in the long run as it gave us so much space between us and the neighbors.  The only downsize to this site was that it was all gravel which was not to Mickey's liking as he loved to lie in the grass.

We settled in and became friends with the neighbors and I was glad to finally have a garden to tinker with.






Half way through the summer we were informed we had secured a seasonal site for the rest of the summer and for every summer after that for as long as we want it.  We had the option of keeping the site we were on or choosing from three other ones.  We chose Site W2, same section but more sun and a lot of grass for Mickey.  It feels great to finally have a park to call home when we are in NY for the summer.




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