Sunday, September 1 thru 14, 2019, Move to and Stay at McKinney COE Park, Acworth, GA

During our stay on the northwest side of Atlanta, we were able to meet a few times with our friend, Bob, to enjoy some wine and lively conversation. We visited Buzzy's Grill where I enjoyed a nearly perfect burger and great fries. We were able to visit Kate and Mike, only 8 miles away, several times and check out the new accommodations with their friend Josh.

We tried to find a conveniently located, long term park but we had no luck. Our fall-back plan was to make use of the many Corps of Engineers (COE) parks around the area. COE park regulations only allow 14 days (in a month) in each park so it was necessary to move from park to park every two weeks. If you follow the rules to a tee, you are only allowed 14 days on Lake Allatoona at any COE park. But when they canceled our reservations at Sawnee COE Park on Lake Lanier it became necessary to flaunt the rules to avoid moving from Walmart to Walmart for two weeks. They either didn't notice our infraction or didn't care. Either way, we got away with it.

Today was not our typical moving day.  Check-in at McKinney (COE) Park was 4:00 and it was only a few miles away so we couldn't start too early. Instead, we headed out for some shopping and a free day-after-birthday meal for Joani at Golden Corral. After we had our fill of sirloin steak and St. Louis ribs we were a bit slow about packing to move. It was a beautiful day and once we had all of Joani's rocks stowed we checked to see if our next site was empty. It was, so we raced over to McKinney campground, 6.3 miles (95,247.2 total) down a few narrow winding roads to our home for the next two weeks.

We settled into site 102 before noticing there was a dead pine tree with large limbs above our coach. Walking Sam, I noticed several more trees leaning precariously in our direction. 

I thought they would be a hazard if a storm blew through and the Ranger agreed so we were moved to site 105. There were no dangerous-looking trees threatening our coach but I noticed out our front window we looked directly towards a gravesite - I guess there's always something, right?

Mary, Wife of G. H. McKinney, a young woman that was born in 1832 and died in 1858. Fortunately, she was not haunting the grounds as far as I could tell so we were happy.

We didn't spend a lot of time in the park since we were here to visit with the kids and be around for the birth of our first grandchild. The days blurred a bit with projects keeping us busy at both Kate and Jon's places making the time seem to fly by faster than usual.