Destin, FL - Camp Gulf - Aug. 6, 2013 until Sept. 1, 2014

Hard to know where to begin so let me start at the beginning...

We arrived 8/6/13 to Camp Gulf in Destin, FL. We were greeted at the gate by a man on a golf cart "just sit down young lady and we'll get you to your site...Hmmm, you aren't on my arrival sheet...oh, you are new workcampers...pull through the gate and someone will be with you" Later, we found out this was Herb Owen.

Then another man, Patrick, pulled up on a segway. "let's get your tow unhooked and get you into your site"
We were given site 508 but only temporarily until some of the other camp workers moved out. 

Site 508

Site 508

After a couple of weeks, we were moved to site 208, which has the cabin row behind it. Not too thrilled with that but it turned out ok.

site 208

Site 208

Working at Camp Gulf was quite an experience! Very, very busy but the management was great about doing extra things for the work campers. Several dinners that they cooked and cleaned up afterwards. Gift certificates for things to do in the area. They were very appreciative of our hard work!

Bruce's Office

Kathy working at Leona's Gift Shop

Bruce had at work power washing the wall.

More of Bruce's handy work!

One of Bruce's favorite jobs...pump-out wagon

Headed to a beach grill

A few of the things were enjoyed on our days off...

Bubba the alligator!

A day at the beach. Water is usually a beautiful blue but it was a bit stirred up this day.

Rocky Bayou State Park on a week-end off.

Kayaking with Harvey and Carmen at Rocky Bayou State Park.

Klein family reunion at St. George Island

Friends stopping by to visit

An evening dinner cruise on the Solaris

Camping at Twin Lakes Campground

Enjoying time together at Twin Lakes Campground

The flood of April, 2014 - this was our site and the water had receded some!

Owen working with his Papa

To summarize our year in Destin - a great time, family and friends came by for a visit and vacation, met a lot of new friends, all in all a great year!

Indiana Dunes State Park

Site #9

Chicago, Sunday morning traffic jam

Kathy at Dunes State Park

Bruce with rig at Dunes State Park

Thought we would have a short drive today - well the drive was short - 219 miles but it took us 8 hours to do it! Got into a terrible traffic jam in Chicago, 4 lanes of traffic going no where!! Didn't know what was going on or how far the traffic was jammed.  Got out the laptop (we don't have smart phones yet) and had enough battery to see that the problem wasn't far ahead so decided to stick with our route. Wrong plan!! When we finally got to the south side of Chicago found the problem - a semi had overturned and blocked 3 of the 4 lanes! NO traffic controls to help either! Everyone was just on their own to mash 4 lanes down to 1 lane. Surprised that Chicago was so lacking in speeding up the cleanup and also at re-routing traffic!! Oh well, no schedule, just a loss of time and money on gas just idling for 6 hours. We'd planned on going to a state park just north of Lafayette but due to the jam changed our stop to Indiana Dunes State Park, near Chesterton, Indiana on Lake Michigan. Indiana Dunes State Park
The RV park was pretty much the usual state park - with gravel sites, lots of trees and plenty of room between sites. They charge a $10 park entry fee then when you get to the campground they charge another $17.34 to camp. Would have been nice to have been told that the sites were electric only so we'd known to fill our water reserve. We made due and the bathhouse was clean enough, showers could have used some cleaning though. Monday morning we were going to walk over to the Dunes but the path was closed and saw a cement truck so figured we better not to try to sneak by. Decided to go ahead and hook up, drive over to the beach then head on south. The beach area was beautiful!! Lots of soft, white sand and the water was surprisingly pretty too! If the path had been open so that we could have seen the beach before we hooked up we may have stayed a few days. Oh well, on with our adventure!