We start off June at a familiar place. A Thousand Trails park in Ohio, where we stayed at the same time last year. Our second visit was just as pleasant as the first, and we really like this park. The sites are big, and the park is very peaceful and quiet. We also like the area, it’s very rural with lots of farms. We hit up a familiar spot for dinner as well, an Italian restaurant that is also a winery that we ate at last year. We also tried a local diner in Jefferson for breakfast and had a good meal there, too.

After a week in Ohio, we continue to head east. Our first stop is a Harvest Host we wanted to visit last year, but it was fully booked. It’s a brewery called Boxcar Breworks in Debois, PA, located in an eclectic, train-car-themed place called Doolittle Station. This place includes an inn where you can stay in a train car, a restaurant, a cafe, an ice cream parlor, mini golf, a pizza, a brewery, and an animatronic dinosaur museum. We went to the brewery and had some drinks and a meal. We had some great conversations with people hanging out at the brewery, including the owner. We also had some ice cream at the creamery. Unfortunately, we did not get to see the dinosaur museum; it was closed by the time we finished dinner at the brewery. It was an interesting place to spend the night for sure.

From here, it is off to another familiar place. Thousand Trails Hershey. We stopped at this park last year. Last year, this park had first-come, first-served site assignments; nothing was pre-assigned, and everyone tried to arrive at the gate at opening time to get the best sites. Personally, we were never fans of this since it creates chaos and conflict when people try to reserve sites for friends or use a towed car to get ahead and get a spot. You also end up with larger RVs having to fit into smaller spots, or spots that don’t have enough room or 30A electric, because someone with a tiny RV took a spot that a larger RV would fit in better. It was messy to say the least. Now they assign sites at all Thousand Trails parks, which we like a lot better, so long as the park puts us in a spot where we fit. Since this is a new policy, I’m sure there are going to be growing pains, and in our case, we got put into a spot not at all big enough for our RV. We had both ends hanging in the road when we parked. We talked to the park manager, who said this happens quite a bit and that they need to remeasure the sites so they can place people better. They moved us to a different site, which happened to be the exact same site we were on the last time we were here. That worked out just fine since we fit in that spot easily. We spent a pretty quiet week here, mainly just working and staying put.

We left on Sat morning and headed to New York. We spent a night at a Boondockers Welcome in the Catskills. This place was actually a campground that also offers a free boondocking spot with no hookups. It was quiet and a good stop. It was a little tight getting in and out for us.

Sunday, we headed off to Massachusetts to another familiar spot in Bellingham, where we spent a week last year. This time we spent three weeks at this park. It was great for me to be “home,” and we got to see some friends and family while we were back in the area. I was also able to go into the office and connect with coworkers that I had not seen in over a year. It was a busy three weeks while we were here, but it was nice to be back home for me.