Lake Lavon is a Corps of Engineers lake reasonably close to where our son Pat and family live in the Dallas area. We are at the East Fork campground, where we stayed last year at the same time. We have been big fans of the COE campgrounds for years because they are usually very well maintained with beautiful spots, plus at our age we qualify for half-price rates. But East Fork is the exception. First, it is the most expensive COE campground we have ever stayed in--$30 a night compared to $16-$24 for others ($24 being for full hook ups.) On the plus side, the campsites are spacious and fairly level. There isn't much shade, which isn't really a factor this time of year, and the picnic tables do have shade structures over them.
But the campground road has chasms too big to be called potholes that would swallow a smart car. The shower house is probably the worst I have ever seen. There are only two toilet stalls and one shower each for men and women and on the women's side the same toilet is out of order that was when we were here a year ago. The sink faucets spray horizontally, which might be considered good because you don't want to use the shower.
But the campground road has chasms too big to be called potholes that would swallow a smart car. The shower house is probably the worst I have ever seen. There are only two toilet stalls and one shower each for men and women and on the women's side the same toilet is out of order that was when we were here a year ago. The sink faucets spray horizontally, which might be considered good because you don't want to use the shower.
As I said, we are here because of family. Yesterday afternoon, we had great weather to take in one of grandson Jack's soccer games. He is one of two goalies for the Allen freshman team. Compared to the Allen football games we have been to when his sister Jessi was a trainer for that team, the soccer games are pretty low key--more what we're used to. Allen won over a higher rated team yesterday and although the Goodyear blimp didn't make it, we did enjoy a beautiful hot air balloon going over.
Earlier in the day, we discovered that a model of a trailer that we are interested in was on a dealer's lot in nearby Rockwall so we took a little roadtrip to check that out while the family was tied up with work and school. Today we will probably avail ourselves of Pat and Jill's laundry facilities and then join our son's in-laws for supper.
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