Advice: Rookie RV Drivers Should not Arrive at Night

July 8-10, 2010; Mystic, Connecticut. As I said we arrived in Mystic fairly late, around 9:00PM. Normally when you arrive at most campsites they escort you to your site with a golf cart and ensure you can get in ok. When you arrive after 8:00PM, they have an envelope with your name on it taped to the door of the office with a map inside. We actually did quite well. Although we missed the final turn on the way into the campground, we were blessed once again as we approached some building in the middle of nowhere with an unusually large parking lot so we could turn around (normally missing any turn can mean a delay of a half hour or more as you can't just turn around anywhere with one of these things!). Inside the campground, I walked ahead to do a little recon of our site which was fortunately a "pull-through" (as opposed to having to back in) and was on an end by a small road. So it was a piece of cake as we were blessed once again. Although it was late, we ate sandwiches and cuddled up to watch Herbie Fully Loaded before heading to bed at about midnight. Today has been a very relaxing day of hanging around the campsite, playing, swimming, and sitting around the campsite drinking coffee. We slept in til about 9:30, cooked French toast while Karen walked, swam in the pool, played miniature golf, and board games in the camper. Weather is beautiful, about 84 degrees with mixed clouds and sun. Of course we'll build a fire tonight, and this campground also has an outdoor movie showing, which the kids want to go to. Tomorrow, we're off to RI where we'll spend the afternoon at my sister's pool and then sleep one night at my Mom's before heading to Fishermen's Memorial State Park for four nights.