Tuesday, 18 July – Cowans Gap SP, Fort Loudon, PA

I can’t believe how much we sleep here, I will never get back to normal when we get home!

The sun is out and it is warm, not too hot, as we set off on our exploration along the Lakeside Trial, 1.5 miles around the lake.  It’s pretty, the lake is calm, kayaks and paddle boats are out and there are a lot of people around at the swim beach.  There is a food concession there also where we buy a big glass of ice cold hand squeezed lemonade.  We continue around the lake crossing the dam at the end which is close to our campsite.  That’s the exercise for today!


Swim beach with the dam in the background
The dam was built in the 1930’s by CCC boys (Civilian Conservation Corps).  This was a group created by President Roosevelt to relieve the rampant unemployment in the great depression, the young men received food, clothes and a small pay check in return for building roads, bridges, fire trails, telephone lines, recreation facilities etc.

Most gaps are created by streams or rivers flowing through them, unusually Cowans Gap was created by wind.

We spend an hour or two outside in the shade reading and just blobbing.  Kim takes it upon himself to wash the windscreen now the sun is off it and then he pulls down the venetian blind in the bathroom to give it a birthday.  He gets as far as getting it off the wall before he runs out of ideas on how to clean it.  I guess that’s what wives are for.

Spend some time figuring out where we go next but have come to no firm conclusion, so we will wing in tomorrow once we leave here.  Def need to get somewhere with at least cell coverage, if not WIFI too.  We have no idea what’s happening in the world.

Inquisitive bushy tailed squirrel on our picnic table!

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