A Bit Funky, but Nice Enough, and Home for Awhile

Friday we moved to a commercial campground, The Vista at the Lake.

This is part of an old resort along the upper part of Lake Hamilton.

It still has a small boat launch and some rather cramped sites on a little inlet off the lake.

It’s an odd mix, with some sites that used to be for permanent residents,

and a row of single wide trailers. There are also some apartments and some cabins.

Down this dirt driveway…

is this old building which Sean says used to be quite a popular restaurant.

We chose a site on the top of a hill.

It’s a ways down to the lake on one side (past these huge pipes that will be part of a new water main for Hot Springs).

Down the other direction are the trailers and some long term residents,

and the pool, which is supposed to open in May.

With only one other neighbor here

we have plenty of privacy.

The people who own this place now seem nice. I think it may take them a while to get the place anywhere near what it used to be but it gives us a nice place to hang out with plenty of places to walk Matey. Bud has his knee replacement surgery tomorrow, so we’re stuck here until the first part of June. It’s nice enough, the price was reasonable and it’s just 20 minutes from Jamie. It’ll do.