Glamping Days

Today, I had a fairly long drive, 360 miles, to Hungry Mother State Park in southwestern, VA. No pics, as I just drove & set up camp.   

Today's drive home was a short one, as time was planned to dump my tanks, empty my fridge, & pack up some clothes to take to my condo.  Here's the 3rd troll from Monday. He's in a botanical garden.  The "secret troll" was a bit of a disappointment after the others, but still pretty cool.  And this is the view over the river just down the road from this last troll. 

As I left the campground this morning (Thomson Causeway COE Campground, Thomson, IL), a row of turtles & 2 white pelicans saw me off.   After an uneventful drive, I parked behind a Cracker Barrel for the night. Here is the 2nd troll I found in Clinton yesterday. 

All but 2 trailers left today. I went to town Clinton, Iowa) to find the 3 trolls that everyone was talking about. First, I found some pretty cool murals.  The 3 trolls, & a "secret" 4th troll, were made by artist Thomas Dambo. There are a number of them scattered around the US, Europe, & a few elsewhere. Since I'll just be driving home the next 2 days, I'll save some of the troll pics for those days.  After an afternoon trip to another winery, we settled in for a last campfire by the marsh. 

Many folks left today, but a group of went out to a winery this afternoon, & enough stayed that there were still 2 campfires this evening; I dropped in on both.  Here's a pic of the end of a scavenger hunt, which was organized by a couple rally attendees. They also hosted a campfire last night for the folks who were new to the rally this year.  Most of the fiberglass rally folks are pretty low key, but some of our neighbors...well, not so much. 

Though there were several other activities today including  morning coffee, a blue tarp event, & trailer tours, the most popular one is always the dog parade.