Coast-to-coast RV trip begins

Official start of my RV trip from MD/PA to WA. Won't be blogging in real time, and descriptions may be short due to time and connectivity. I activated unlimited hotspot on my Verizon account, and it appears to work pretty well. Still we expect to encounter dead spots as we go into the more remote areas.

Above: our two RVs at my friend's house, all loaded and ready to roll. First stop, a visit to Catawba Island State Park at Port Clinton, OH close to where we will spend the night.

This is a very nice area; the state park is on the shore of Lake Eerie, surrounded by private homes on the other side.

We took a drive to nearby Catawba Point Preserve and hiked the short loop trail in the Preserve, located within a residential area.

Then we walked to the Catawba Island Dock and watched cars lining up for the Miller ferries that carry passengers and vehicles from Catawba Island to the Lake Erie islands, Put-in-Bay and Middle Bass Island. The ferries would have accommodated our RVs. But, it was late afternoon on a weekend and they would not take vehicles/passengers across without proof of lodging on the island(s).

We continued on to Petersburg OH where we spent the night at a Cracker Barrel parking lot.