This week we're attending the M&M (Michigan Mini) rally at The Church of God's St Louis Campground here in St Louis, MI. Organized by Greg & Judy Bahnmiller, the group is part of the NuWa Owners forum (HitchHiker 5th wheel brand of trailers). While we don't own a HitchHiker, we're part of the forum. So we "invade" even though we don't own a HItchHiker. Most people here are from Michigan and many winter at Gulf Shores, AL. Only a few of us are full time RVers. Most are snowbirds. Greg & Judy have been invaluable to us as we adjusted to the full time RVer lifestyle and introduced us to Gulf Shores as a winter location. They also introduced us to Ben's Pretzels (14 Weight Watchers' points each).
The excitement this year was that the campground where this rally was planning to stay was experiencing power problems - problems like 99 volts power problems. A last minute change was made to move the rally to the St Louis Campground, and it's worked perfectly for us. The campground is a Passport America discount campground and has both shaded and sunny spots (all on grass), 30/50 amp electrical service in the large field campsite area (big rig friendly), 30 amp electrical service in the shaded sites, and all have water. No sewer, but there is a dump. There are two sets of restrooms & showers with the set on the north side of the campground being the nicest. Alma is a nice, nearby college town that's great to walk around, and there's the paved Heartland bicycle trail that runs about 50+ miles. So you know where Donna's been.
Like any rally, there's games, camp fires, too much food, and lots of story telling & lessons learned. We all went to Hearthstone restaurant (Alma, MI) for lunch, yesterday. Today's the last day, so there's one last pot luck and get together. All of us plan to be gone by Friday. We're headed back to Traverse City, MI and plan to stay there almost three weeks. Then head to Pennsylvania for a Folks-on-Spokes Rally where Donna gets to ride her heart out.
So we hope everyone is doing well. Enjoy your weekend! David
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