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Maiden Voyage to Lake Monroe Park - DeBary, FL

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Topic: Maiden Voyage to Lake Monroe Park - DeBary, FL
Posted By: JohnBG
Subject: Maiden Voyage to Lake Monroe Park - DeBary, FL
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 10:12am
This past weekend, my wife, daughter and I took our new (to us) 2010 RP-171 to Lake Monroe Park in DeBary, FL about 20 minutes from home for a shakedown trip as we are total n00bs to camping.  Our Ridgeline pulled the camper just fine without a WDH or sway bars.  

The park was nice for a county-owned park, and all spots had water and 30 amp electric service.  No sewer hookups but the park had a free dump station.  No concrete pads, all had what I would call either coquina or crusher run gravel.  The bath/shower houses were decent, I showered in the camper, but the missus and daughter used the bath houses. Cost was about $25 a night including taxes.  The main draw at this park is that there is also boat ramps to Lake Monroe and the St. John's River.  The campground was full for the 4th of July weekend.  Some spots have good shade, others get full sun.  We chose a shady spot, #5.  There are about 25 spots available.

Since we don't have an R-Dome yet, we used our EZ-up canopy tent that worked great.  Everything worked on the camper. The A/C was plenty cold like walking into a refrigerator from the 90-degree heat.  Only issue we had is that we tripped the breaker when we had the A/C and electric water heater on and the missus tried to microwave something.  

All in all a good trip, looking forward to some more camping adventures.




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2010 R-Pod RP-171
2010 Honda Ridgeline TV



Replies:
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 1:38pm
Nice site!

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Leo & Melissa Bachand
2017 Ford F150
2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk
Previously owned
2015 Rpod 179
2010 Rpod 171


Posted By: dsmiths
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 10:27pm
Looks like a good shake down cruise, and lots more in the future.

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Dane and Donna Smith
2011 RP-172
2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4X4
lift kit
prodigy wireless brake controller



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