Transition to Trap Pond State Park

Friday, April 30, 2021 Today’s blog is going to be short-- because there’s not much to tell about! We got started fairly early, but not rushing, to slowly tidy up the RV so we could leave Cape Henlopen. I wrote a blog for the previous day, and organized some photos, and discovered that my own phone would allow me to access the internet. So I uploaded a blog and some photos. Then we disconnected from the water and electric, and pulled out of the campsite at about 11 a.m. It took another hour for us to get through the dump station--there are three very well arranged dumps, but there was a line waiting to use them--and then hook up the Jeep. Luckily, I had noticed the large parking lot in the park near the beach access yesterday, so we drove down to that end of the park and used the nearly empty lot to get ourselves together (literally!) Then we headed out. We still were hoping to find a propane place, and the park attendant had suggested a place in Rehoboth, about 5-6 miles from the park. So we drove that way. The road (Route 1) was 3 lanes on each side, and packed with stores, shopping centers (no fewer than 3 sections for Tanger Outlets), at least one midway-style area with rides and games, restaurants, etc. Clearly this is a town built around the beach and the summer visitors. Unfortunately, the propane was on the wrong side of the road and looked inaccessible when we finally saw it. We decided once again to just skip the whole thing for now. We ended up making a random left turn to try to go back the way we came, and got lucky--we turned left at a light which led right into a big parking lot adjacent to two buildings. One was an auction house (nothing happening there) and one was a huge thrift shop run by the local parish. When I saw how large it was, Joey agreed to stop so I could check it out. Everyone wore masks (this seems to be true everywhere we go, luckily) and I took as short a time as possible. In the end, I decided against picking up anything for Junie, and just got myself one jigsaw puzzle. When I went back outside to the RV, Joe pointed out that it was already after 1pm, so we decided to eat lunch before leaving. And then we hit the road, went back through the traffic for a couple of miles, and then turned south. We drove for about an hour and arrived at Trap Pond State Park, where we are spending two nights, until Sunday. The campground is really pretty--much higher trees than at Henlopen, and more space between RV sites (although not as large sites as we had in NJ a few nights ago.) The “pond”, really a nice small lake, is at the end of the camping loops, and each loop has a boat dock. We sat on a bench and enjoyed the lake for a while after we first got here, then set up the chairs back at our site. It got a LOT cooler during the afternoon, and it just figures that in a place that would be ideal to take out our kayak, the weather will only be in the 60‘s, which is kind of cold for us to be out getting wet, I think. (We are wimpy like that!) So we’ll have to find something else to do here... probably hanging out and reading and napping. The park has a free bicycle “Rental” shack, and maybe I’ll push myself and take a bike ride-- I’ve been wanting to do that for a while. The park is so flat that we didn’t need a single block to even out the RV, so it’s probably a nice flat bike ride as well. I was able to use my hot spot here, so uploaded another blog... maybe I can catch up with that this weekend too!