Heat

Dane, we only heard a cicada for about a few minutes each day, must have been tooooo hoottt!
Anyway, we survived just fine! Nothing like a screen hose for being part of nature !

Ray, hope to see you in September!   We saw an R Pod in a driveway near Sweetwater, along the Mullica. Anybody we might know?

Podsible, I love going to sleep to the song of the whiporwill, nothing like it, unles its Southern Indiana Kady did's (cicada) what a sweet song, I hate it during hot weather and Donna makes me close the bedroom windows and I can't hear the critters outside in the woods behind our house, we are heading out next weekend to enjoy it first hand.

Just got in from 3 nights down in the Jersey Pine Barrens. 100 plus for Friday and Saturday. No electricity in NJ state parks! So we roughed it. Slept in the screen house two nights, and after thunderstorm on Saturday evening, in the pod. I found some 12 volt clip on fans at Walmart on clearance and put in some cigar lighter outlets front and back, so we did have moving air.
We sure didn't do much moving around , though!! Great birding though - saw a bald eagle flying along the Wading River at about 40 feet, on it's way some where! Lots of small birds in the pine/oak scrub. Including a pair of Prairie Warblers - a pretty yellow with black stripping little bird. Whip-poor-wills kept us entertained almost all night! There was a tree between us and the next site with a hollow in it and busy pair of flickers feeding a hungry brood all day.
Looked like the heat kept folks home- the camp ground area we were in had more than 125 sites - maybe 20 were filled, and many had reserved tags, but no occupants!

We survived with lots of water and iced tea. A bag of ice 7 lbs lasted barely 18 hours, but the little frig on propane kept Italian Ices frozen just fine!

We spent last weekend in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, Dakota Regional Park.  Using just the fan in the camper kept things bearable during the day and temperatures very comfortable for sleeping -- without a cover, however.  The campground was located basically just across the street from the Minneapolis Zoo, which we visited twice and handy to shopping and museums.  

I wish you had siad that was where you were at.. We drove RIGHT by Saturday.