Canopener 2015 - Topsail Hill Preserve State Park.We are already planning the next round of improvements for our next trip to Jackson Center, Ohio. In addition, we found the farm that Becky's father grew up on and that led us to many pleasant memories. We were able to make some improvements to Rosie, fix several nagging problems and learned many new things about camping in an Airstream trailer. We have to classify our trip to Ohio as a success. Once we were on the road that morning, we realized that we would be home in time to pick up our dog, who we boarded at her vet. We were glad we decided to start heading home when Rosie was released from Airstream's service center. By not parking in the middle of the trucks, we didn't hear their constant loud noises. The lessons we learned from our first camping experience at a truck stop paid off. The memory foam on the bed didn't have time to thaw out and continued to be stiff, but we were warm enough inside Rosie. The furnace was working hard and we doubt that it turned off during the night. Now that we are home and Rosie is in her inside storage space, we have been unable to replicate that problem.Īfter hanging out inside the store for a while, we ventured back out to Rosie.

The main cabin LED lights are on a dimmer while the bedroom lights are not. The LED lights in the bedroom area worked fine. We would turn them on and they would quickly dim. The cold may have been responsible for the LED lights in the main cabin area not working. We fired up the furnace and went inside the truck stop while the heater took the chill off inside Rosie. The temperature was in the teens and the memory foam on Rosie's bed (our 25 foot Airstream trailer) was hard as a rock. We found a place to park next to the curb in front of the Denny's restaurant and figured we found our spot for the night. That way you don't have to listen to their desel engines and air breaks all night. One of the things we learned from our first night boondocking at a truck stop was to get as far away from the trucks as possible. Since we were arriving late that night, it appeared that most of the truck parking spots were full. This turned out to be a huge truck stop with spaces for more than 170 trucks.

As we were heading south on I-65 in Kentucky, we were running out of options and decided to stop at the Flying J Travel Plaza at Exit 2. We use the AllStays app on our iPhones to find potential places to camp for the night. and to be back on the road early the following morning. Our goal was to find a place to camp before 10 p.m. (See the previous posting to learn about our adventures at Airstream's factory service center.) That meant we needed to be south of Cincinnati and Louisville before stopping for the night. We wanted to get a few hours down the road so that we could reach home before sunset the following day. After four days in the service center at Airstream's headquarters in Jackson Center, Ohio, our camper was ready and we got on the road around 5 p.m. Looking for the best dispersed camping near Duluth.

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