{"id":1071,"date":"2018-01-02T23:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T04:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abuffalobus.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2018-03-14T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:43:15","slug":"our-eclipse-trip-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abuffalobus.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Our Eclipse Trip (Part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Continued from Part 4<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The view of woods to our east.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, waking up at Fort Massac<\/a> was nice, but warm and humid.\u00a0 We spent the morning setting up and leveling the bus a bit with some pressure treated lumber under the back wheels.\u00a0 But the site that we had was awesome.\u00a0 We were on the edge of woods that spanned some 2 miles behind us, and at the end of a loop, so we had a grassy area next to our site on the south side, with a neighbor to the north.<\/p>\n

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An old park map showing the loops and historic fort sites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were at Site 36, which is on the farther loop from the river, but it ended up being more secluded and quiet, as the end of the first loop had a bike\/hiking trail running right behind it.\u00a0 Just at the end of our loop was a road that went to the old group camping area (no longer used) where we could get right on the bike trails.\u00a0 (More about those later.)<\/p>\n

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The bus happily resting at Site 36 in Fort Massac State Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, just on the edge of our site was the firepit, which is probably the most elaborate pit I’ve encountered so far.\u00a0 Growing up in the Adirondacks, I was used to mortared stone firepits (almost fireplaces) with inset, hinged iron gratings.\u00a0 Going to the Sprague Brook<\/a> and Evangola<\/a>\u00a0parks, I got used to minimal steel rings with either a hinged steel grating, or one that had four different settings of heights, but never truly left the fire area.\u00a0 The\u00a0 firepit that we had at Allegany State Park was the most rustic, with just a ring of stones and no grating (And as such, we picked up a cheap grating at the camp store, which when it dies, we’ll replace with a more durable one – they’re good to have!).<\/p>\n\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\r\n \r\n