Luckily we didn’t have the thunderstorms of the previous night, but I could see a big system from across the lake which was pretty pretty amazing to watch during my early morning work-out. The girls were sleeping in again. We finally decided we needed to get ready to head out fast when the radar and weather took a turn in our direction. We were packed up in about 20 minutes (maybe a record) and then the weather turned again and we had time to go to the dump station. As we drove out of town, the radar said we needed to watch out for flash floods in the local town we were going through, but thankfully we didn’t hit any flash floods either. Our fast pack meant the girls were in their PJs and I didn’t pack car lunches, so at our half way point we found a gas stop with Subway sandwiches.
On the last leg of our drive another car of good folks flagged us down. They were pointing up and yelling, “FIRE! There’s a fire on your roof!” Upon deciphering the code at 65 miles an hour through the wind of lowered car windows, we slowed and stopped on the shoulder (thankfully there was one). I walked into the field to look for the fire at the top of our camper, but saw nothing. We opened the camper to look inside and didn’t smell or see smoke. As Keith went on top of the camper to check, I noticed that the car that flagged us down had stopped and so I went to talk with the lady. She said, “OMG, my heart is beating so fast! I saw red flames coming from the black thing (the A/C) on top of your camper near those black humps (the bike rack)!” She then said they felt they had to let us know, they just couldn’t let us drive on with fire coming out of our camper and wanted to stop to make sure we were OK! Keith went up again to check the place she had described and found we had red ribbons that fly up in the wind when we drive (the ribbons are used to tie on the bikes). She said that must be what she saw and apologized for stopping us. Although it turned out to be an illusion, it gave me a warm feeling inside to know this stranger tried to help us, flagged us down, and then stopped to see if we were OK. If she hadn’t stopped we would still be wondering why she flagged us down. Mystery solved, we got back on the road with a little better sense of humanity…there are some kind folks that think about other people in the world.
We arrived to The Point Campground winding through tree filled sites on a hill. We unpacked, set up, and proceeded to explore. We found a boat launch, map, and swimming beach (No Fish Heads!). Although rocky, it was nice to get wet in the 104 degree weather. We stayed only about an hour, before heading back for Yahtzee and bacon sandwiches, some outside hair washing (although we do have water, we don’t want to fill up our grey tank before we have to leave), some bike riding, and bedtime “routines.”
Tomorrow we hope to find “Little Niagara.”
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