We go up earlier than our usual time this morning even though we only had 45 miles to travel today to get to Burlingame State Park. Before we left Wal-Mart I bought some groceries and got breakfast at the McDonald's in Wal-Mart. We left Wal-Mart at 8:45 this morning.
We stopped at the Rhode Island Welcome Center on I-95. There we were told the best place to get gas was at the next exit & then we could take SR-138 to SR-112 to SR-2 to US-1 where Burlingame State Park is located.
We got gas at a Gulf Oil station at the next exit where we paid $3.799 a gallon.
We arrived at Burlingame State Park about 10:30 this morning. It's $20 a night plus a $9 reservation fee. We were assigned site #748 - lots of shade. There are no hookups here at the park. We soon discovered that our generator wouldn't start. We started checking some of the empty sites and found site #547 where we could get sun for our solar panels. After checking with the park office we moved from site #748 to site #547 and finished setting up.
Site #547 is a gravel/dirt pull-through which is reasonably level. There are still a lot of trees around so we can't pick up a satellite signal even with the portable satellite dish. We can get all 3 networks plus some other TV stations on our roof antenna. We had to run the engine for a while in order to charge our house batteries. The solar panels started charging the batteries when we started to get full sun shining on the solar panels.
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