This was one of the prettiest drives -- we are in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. So the Interstate runs along a ridge, and has beautiful vistas, as well as green mountain pastures, dotted with cows. And the trees are in their fall height of colors. I realize again that English doesn't really have a word for small mountains or big hills, so I have decided to create one -- mounthills. We drove through, over and around lots of them. Very pretty, and very pastoral.
We arrived at our next campground - Stoney Creek Resort, in the middle of nowhere, only to be very surprised to see hundreds of people/kids wandering around the check-in office area. All in Halloween costume. It turns out this is the area's annual event. Halloween weekend at the campgrounds. People come every year for it. There are over 400 campsites here -- some annual, some seasonal, and some daily. There is a small lake (I call it pond) with a beach and lots of water activities during the summer. However, we arrived right after the pumpkin carving contest and the costume contest, and right before the trick or treating started. All of the RV's were already set up, and most were decorated for Halloween. Some quite elaborately. As we drove to our RV site to set up, we needed to drive through all of the kids out trick or treating, up and down the various RV campsite roads. I realize that if you live out in the boonies, having a concentrated area to walk around and trick or treat would be very attractive.
We set up and decided to walk around the campgrounds, checking out the decorations, the lake, and the event center where the internet is located. Useful, as there is minimal cell coverage and no internet coverage elsewhere. This park is big. It's like a little town. But it is not a place I would like to be in an RV seasonally or permanently.
Halloween at Stoney Creek Resort photos:
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