allen8106
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Well the wife and I are taking the plung so to speak in a differnt kind of way. We have camped for years from tents to an older TT to a new TT to now a new 5er. Starting in April we will spend the entire "normal" camping season this year as camphosts at an area reservoir here in Kansas. Since we love spending time camping at the lake and have no children a home now we thought this would be an ideal opportunity to spend time there with minimal costs and with the price of gas these days who can afford to go too far away anyhow. Kansas offers a nominal amount of salary to collect camping fees on your assigned campground and provides full hook-ups for no cost during the camping season. We figured if we are going to spend 75 days a year camping at the lake anyway we thought we might as well stay for free if we could and generate a litle cash in the process. I'm planning to start a blog to chronicle our season. For those of you interested in following our progress I'll post a link to the blog as soon as I get it going.
Wish us luck, should be an experience!!
2010 Eagle Super Lite 315RLDS
2009 GMC Sierra 2500HD 6.0L
1983 DW (love of my life)
2010 Pit Bull Terrier (Jake)
2010 Camping Nights 45
2011 Camping Nights 75
2012 Camping Nights 127
2013 Camping Nights 12
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Merrykalia
Appalachian (apple at chun) Mountains in SW VA
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We camp hosted for the first time last August in a Virginia State Park and had a FABULOUSLY marvelous time. We are scheduled to host again this coming August. I hope you have as much fun as we did.
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forty4san
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I bet you will have a wonderful time. Enjoy it and the other campers.
Susan I
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cherrykiss3
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What lake are you going to be at Allen? It may not be too far from me or if I just take a day trip I cculd stop by and say hi.
Cherry
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Ramblin Recks
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Sounds awesome! Good luck on your new adventure. Looking forward to your blog.
George and Ann
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Kirk
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We were camp hosts at Cheney State Park some years back and enjoyed our Kansas stay. I grew up in Kansas and we were staying close to family at the time. More recently we also hosted at Kit Carson Campground on Council Grove Lake for the US Army Corps of Engineers. It can be a lot of fun.
Good travelin! ........Kirk
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allen8106
Burrton. KS
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Kirk wrote:We were camp hosts at Cheney State Park some years back and enjoyed our Kansas stay. I grew up in Kansas and we were staying close to family at the time. More recently we also hosted at Kit Carson Campground on Council Grove Lake for the US Army Corps of Engineers. It can be a lot of fun.
Same park we will be at, west side, north loop.
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Suzanne and Brad
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Have a wonderful time & congratulations! :-)
Happy Travels!
Suzanne & Brad
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Tom_Diane
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We are in outr second year of camp hosting and having fun. Whats more is that we are close to home if we need to go there but we are away from the neighbors, trains traffic ect. We are going to take a little vacation in late July and early Aug. Our plan was to go to Dodge City as a destination and hopefully check out Dodge City days and then points between on our return trip. After looking at the map maybe we will stop in and say hello. I agree with the gas prices being what they are and I have set my top price of 4.50 PER GAL. as a cut off that would cancel the trip.
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