GunninGopher
05-23-2006, 09:14 AM
I've got a couple of kids, so we usually avoid the big weekends, but we just got a late surprise, the Grandparents are going to step up and take 'em all weekend through Tuesday morning. I called the usual haunts (Hidden Shores, Martinez, Fishers) and they won't have any RV spots open, or rentals available, as I expected. The wife simply refuses to stay at the Fishers air-strip, and I'm not too keen to run my generator for 3 nights straight anyways.
I run a 19' daycruiser and I'm looking for a place with hookups down river from Parker. We've got 1 couple coming with us that just had another kid (not coming) and will be ready for a good time, and another couple that has never been to the river. We'll hope to be able find a decent sand bar scene with some dancing for the girls, and horse shoes for the guys, as well as a bar to go to 1 or 2 nights.
My neighbors have a place at McIntyre and have said we should go up there sometime, but I've never stayed there and don't remember how great the river scene is. Besides, they are going to have all the kids along, and I'd rather meet up with them when we have ours. Also, I know they don't have a bar or anything there. Is hippie cove still going off for the daytime?
I went to Lost Lake about 10 years ago for a poker run, and don't remember much about it, since my in-laws arranged everything on that trip. I do remember there were about 5 resorts on the poker run and the river looked pretty nice, as I recall. I'm thinking about going back to that area, but don't remember much about the parks there or what they offer. How's Aha Quin? Oxbow? Mayflower? Waterwheel? It looks like those must have been the 5 that we stopped at. That poker run would be fun to do again whenever that is.
I'd really like to go to Martinez/Fishers, since that's where I've been going for umpteen years and we'll run into a bunch of old friends there, but without hookups it doesn't look like it is going to work out for this trip.
I run a 19' daycruiser and I'm looking for a place with hookups down river from Parker. We've got 1 couple coming with us that just had another kid (not coming) and will be ready for a good time, and another couple that has never been to the river. We'll hope to be able find a decent sand bar scene with some dancing for the girls, and horse shoes for the guys, as well as a bar to go to 1 or 2 nights.
My neighbors have a place at McIntyre and have said we should go up there sometime, but I've never stayed there and don't remember how great the river scene is. Besides, they are going to have all the kids along, and I'd rather meet up with them when we have ours. Also, I know they don't have a bar or anything there. Is hippie cove still going off for the daytime?
I went to Lost Lake about 10 years ago for a poker run, and don't remember much about it, since my in-laws arranged everything on that trip. I do remember there were about 5 resorts on the poker run and the river looked pretty nice, as I recall. I'm thinking about going back to that area, but don't remember much about the parks there or what they offer. How's Aha Quin? Oxbow? Mayflower? Waterwheel? It looks like those must have been the 5 that we stopped at. That poker run would be fun to do again whenever that is.
I'd really like to go to Martinez/Fishers, since that's where I've been going for umpteen years and we'll run into a bunch of old friends there, but without hookups it doesn't look like it is going to work out for this trip.