The Outdoor Recreation office closed on the weekends
Contacting the campground on Friday was smart as the office is closed on the weekend. Had we not contacted them, they said we were on the list that they would have contacted us. Nevertheless, we had the gate code and made our way past the entrance and right around the loop to our campsite. We scored there also. I made the reservations back in November and could have paid a deposit but not be guaranteed what site we would get, or pay in advance and lock in the site#. I went ahead and paid in advance and ended up saving significant money as they had a rate increase from $43 to $55/night X 18 nights. Do the math, plus our site is satellite friendly.
The campsite we chose back in November did not disappoint! We are in a very long, paved, full hookup, pull through site with a nice patio area, fire ring and picnic table and our neighbors on either side are a long ways away! 
The Class A in the distance is our neighbor to the left!
You can barely see our neighbor to the right!
A perspective from the rear. We even have our own fire plug! Liberty is happy!
Speaking of Liberty, thanks to everyone who shared their concerns and well-wishes about Liberty and her seizure. She is doing fine today. Hopefully this will continue to be a once or twice a year thing, but if not our vet has a plan of treatment involving some medication for her. 
So we arrived and got all set up. We had a late lunch and then Doreen walked a short distance to the laundry facility and did three loads. Later we took a walk through the campground and found an Iowa Bremer County (Waverly) license plate on a tow vehicle. We will try to hook up with them sometime while we are here to find out who they are. Waverly is the town basically north of Cedar Falls where Doreen was born and raised, and where we both went to high school. Because they are in this campground and they are apparently retired military, so we might even know them!
Liberty on her "perch" waiting for her "mom" to get back from the laundry!
One last task - a new state!! Maryland "bites the dust". The only state remaining besides Hawaii is Delaware! The vast majority have been completed since I retired militarily in 2015, so we have been busy! Almost 100k miles on the big ol' brown truck. Delaware will happen after we leave Washington DC.
Tomorrow we have to stop by the campground office and give them a copy of Liberty's immunization record and then we are going to head to the Odenton MARC train station to do a dry run for Wednesday when we meet with our Senator from Iowa, Joni Ernst in the morning. 
Doreen reaches high to place Maryland's decal!
That remaining little white speck is Delaware!
Sen Joni Ernst and Doreen at a Christmas dinner at Joint Forces Headquarters in Johnston Iowa where I served with our Adjutant General Major General Tim Orr. Sen Ernst is a retired Iowa National Guardsman and a combat veteran.
Trip Stats:
# States Traveled Through So Far This Trip: 12 (IA, MO, IL, KY, TN, GA, FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, MD)
Baseball Parks Visited So Far This Trip: 3 (Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Rays, Miami Marlins)
Lighthouses visited: 16 (not updated)
Lighthouses climbed: 5 (not updated)
Point to point travel miles: 3529 miles
- Avg point to point travel miles: 160 miles
Vicinity miles: 4041 miles
- Avg vicinity miles: 202 miles
Total miles driven: 7570 miles
Total point to point driving time: 78 hrs 50 minutes
Total fuel purchased: 617.945 gals
Total fuel cost: $1835.10
Average fuel cost/gal: $2.970
Max fuel cost: $3.289 (New Baden IL)
Min fuel cost: $2.799 (Townsend TN)
Avg MPG: 12.10 miles/gal
# Nights at end of this stay: 139 (Includes Griffs)
Lodging cost: $5826.09 (includes Griffs)
- Avg lodging cost/night: $41.91/night
Looks like better weather!
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