Pinesburg? Where the heck is that? That happens to be the closest named "town" to the
Hagerstown/Antietam KOA, where we spent this past weekend.
Despite the heat (temps were near 100°, with a heat index about 15° above that!), we really enjoyed the weekend. The campground was quite nice, and our waterfront site was perfect! For the whole weekend, we did little more than watch the Conococheaque Creek go by -- along with the occasional kayakers. I'll let some pictures tell most of the story:
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| We actually managed to not go into the trailer and use the air conditioner for most of the weekend. This was my view from the dinette table at breakfast on Saturday morning. |
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| A couple of earlyish morning views of the creek |
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| A few more shots before joining Donna in a comfy chair to while away the day. |
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| A walk through the campground, heading up to the office, Kamp Store, and on-site diner for Sunday breakfast. |
The weekend was a great test of temperature control. The fridge did well, athough the temp did climb to about 48° in the box at the peak of the day. That's a little warmer than I'd like, so I'll probably take a couple more steps to get that down another couple of degrees.
We'll also definitely be adding Reflectix panels over the bunk ends. It was easily 10° warmer in the bunks compared to the main area of the trailer during the daytime -- the canvas was actually quite warm to the touch. Still, Friday night and Satureday were pretty comfortable with all the windows opened, and without the air conditioning (though we did succumb to the heat and turn it on Saturday night).
Of greater concern was the van. When we left Friday afternoon to head out, we had no idea how that aging beast would do towing the trailer, running the air conditioning, and battling hills in the stifling heat. All in all, it did okay -- and a lot better than some other folks who were out for the weekend. However, we did run into cooling issues when running the air.
While it never actually overheated, the temperature gauge did take a couple of startling leaps. So, for the trip home, ditched the AC and just used the old 2-55 units (opened the two working windows). A check of vital fluids after we got home and everything cooled off showed that we were still all good on coolant, oil, and transmission fluid. Gotta love that old Grand Caravan! It's a trooper! I think we're going to happily dump a few dollars into it and buy it some additional/larger auxiliary cooling.
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