Ives Run COE Park in Tioga, PA and meeting our first Blogger!!!

Saturday we were pretty much rained on most of the night and most of the morning and temperature settled down to 69 degrees. This is a far cry from what is happening back where we use to live as it was 103 for the high and never got below 77… scorching back home in Texas! So with the rain we caught up on few of our favorite tv shows using the internet and readied the place for leaving on Sunday.

The rain broke for a bit in the afternoon and allowed us to sneak in a short walk in the nearby town of Lewisburg, PA. This is another PA town that has a really good vibe to it. Some towns you can walk into and they are nice but others like the historic downtown of Lewisburg have an energetic feel. We really pay attention to these towns as they may be future homes for us… But the winters up here are way too cold for our liking...

Sunday we woke up later than normal for a travel day since we only had to go around 100 miles to our next destination at Ives Run Park. This Corp of Engineer park is located in the Adirondack Mountains of northeastern PA. We chose this park due to the many accolades espoused by Jill and her blog Two Tools and a Dream. The drive through the Adirondacks on state highway 15 was a wonderfully scenic drive and the road from Williamsport to Tioga PA was in exceptional condition.

We checked in at the gate that Steve-0 was manning and then set up camp by about 2:40pm. After a bike around the park to get our feel of it we went back to the RV for dinner. This park is fabulous, rolling hills, forested mountain tops, blue lake and is well maintained. The sites are all on concrete pads, many with full hook ups like ours, and the sites are very wide and very scenic. The price is a bit steep at $32 per night but even on a Sunday there are not many sites vacant in this park.

After dinner we took a walk to see if we could meet with Jill and Steve but we were not sure which one was their motorhome so we went back to the camp. We sat outside enjoying the cool evening air when I looked up and could see Jill and Steve walking their dog. After greetings we sat at the picnic table and shared stories about what we had both learned in our short RV’ing lives. We compared our newbie experiences since we both have similar backgrounds in that we just jumped into RV’ing with both feet and no experience. We had never even camped much as a couple before buying our current RV we call home…

What a pleasure it was to meet Jill and Steve and we knew there would be a time that we would meet a fellow blogger. It couldn’t have been better because we had that sense that we’d known them for some time although this was our first encounter outside of virtual land… they were both exactly as I had envisioned… lively, energetic, and fun to be around!