This summer started out like every other — high hopes for good weather on the weekends for time spent at our camper. Well, so much for that. By the end of June, I was demanding a refund because of the weather: cold and rainy every single weekend. Little did I know that within a month’s time, the weather would be the least of our worries.
We got a letter from the owners of the campground we’ve been camping at for the past 21 years that the campground would be closing at the end of the season— for good. Closed forever. And, we had until such and such a date to gather our things and get out.
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