Stop 16: Geneva on the Lake, OH

Today, we had a longer trip to make up for that short one yesterday.

It's getting interesting dealing with our 2 GPS devices. Both are RV GPS's which means that you can program them with all of the specifics about your RV and they know to avoid the places that might get you into trouble. They also have almost every RV Park in existence pre-programed into their points of interest directory.

We have 2 because our older one, Madge (a Magellan with a female voice - she replaced our non-RV Magellan Maggie) gives excellent advice but has a history of going insane at critical moments. Our newer GPS, Mack (a Rand McNally with a male voice) is supposedly top of the line but seems to consistently come up with longer routes (probably something to do with our routing preferences but we haven't figured out any preference that works). Mack also gets very excited when we're anywhere near a Camping World (guess where we bought Mack) and keeps us advised of approaching rest areas (frequently on the other side of the highway).

We've been using both. We follow Madge's shorter route and, as we ignore Mack's instructions, he tends to come into alignment with Madge. When she goes insane he's poised to take over. Combine all that with some good maps and the written directions from the different RV parks and we almost always arrive at our destination (there was Memphis).

But I digress. Geneva on the Water is a beautiful spot on the shore of Lake Erie midway between Cleveland, OH and Erie, PA (Madge pronounces it Eriepa?). The little town looks like it's all arcades, mini-golf courses and pizza places but nothing is open yet. That's a good sign that we're getting more Northerly. In the South, the kids were all out of school already. What with snow days and all, Summer has yet to start up here.

Our park is right across the street from the lake. There's a spot where we can walk out to view the lake but the actual lakefront is all private property. This park seems to be completely filled with full timers, most of whom don't seem to be in residence right now. Of the maybe 12 overnight spots,only one seems to be occupied - by us. The park does have a restaurant on site and that's where we'll be having dinner.

That's it for today. Here are our pictures of the lake.We thought that we could see Canada across the water but it might just be a fog bank.

Looking West.

Looking East.

-JC-