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TS7 Hop 8 – Mogadore OH to Brookville OH

Posted by on August 29, 2021
TS7 Hop 8

212 miles via OH 43, US 224, I-76, I-71, I-270 (west of Columbus), I-70 and some local roads when I got lost just short of the destination. Cumulative tow miles: 1547. Truck miles: 300. Cumulative truck miles: 2230. The extra truck miles were due to the trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a trip to refuel and do laundry and a trip to get a new RV battery.

The truck ran well over mostly smooth roads devoid of huge hills. The mileage was as expected (the fuel light came on just as I arrived in Brookville). More importantly, the refrigerator stayed on! The new RV battery did the trick.

Rusty has had a combination of diarrhea and vomiting for 4 straight days. He doesn’t seem to feel too bad, but anything he eats runs right through him. Or comes back up. I stopped just once on this 3-hour trip and it was at a rest area, so no emergency stopping on the interstate.

My three days in Mogadore were at the Countryside Campground. This is a nice campground with large open spaces and a very nice dog park. The swimming pool (which I didn’t use) also looked very nice and was very popular. There are a lot of families at this campground and they were having fun. A lot of campers are obviously there for weeks if not months or the entire season.

My site was a full hookup pull-through. The site itself was very large, but the roads in the campground have very tight turns. I believe I was the largest RV there. I scraped the side of the RV on a bush as I made one of the turns and had to run out on the grass to make other turns. Not very friendly to large rigs.

They also had no cable. I was able to get some OTA channels (4 on one TV and about 10 on the other), but the signal was weak on almost all channels. The T-Mobile signal was also very weak (one bar). I was able to use the campground WiFi, but that was slow. So I would have to give it poor marks for connectivity.

Long-term campers and wide-open spaces

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