Summer in Illinois

We arrived at Timber Lake RV Park early Thursday am. Beautiful day, nice and sunny. The Park is absolutely beautiful - tranquil, lush green grass and beautiful tall oak trees. The park owner wanted to add some gravel to our site pad so we waited for delivery of gravel and then Ron went to work adding gravel and then leveling it. The photos below show The work being done.

Ron is like a magician running this front end loader and leveling the surface. It was really a kick watching him work the gravel around. Next photo is leveling out gravel by hand.


We are all settled in now and love it. This morning about 3:30 am a storm hit and dumped about 2" of rain. We had windows open on the motor home so had to get up to close up everything.

Last evening we went to a welcome hamburger/hot dog cookout and met other Workampers and some of the seasonal guests here at the park. Really nice to be welcomed the first day here. Next Monday we'll have orientation and work assignments and then things will settle down some. Friday nights are Marguerita socials so we will go over and have a drink and meet some more people.

We've driven into Mount Carroll a couple of times, population is about 1,900, very quaint, brick streets in the downtown area and beautiful, old 3-4 story Victorian homes. When we get a chance we'll take some photos of a couple of them and post them.

On our trip here we stayed in Altoona, IA, outside of Des Moines, and had a nice visit with a Workamper couple that we worked with in Mesa, AZ last winter. We had a fun visit and hope they get a weekend to come over to Illinois to visit.