CAMPING PICTURES—

In the top photo my genial host Brad Crownover is shown enjoying a beverage on his front patio, overlooking the channel and private mooring facilities for homeowners in Lakeside, OH. My cousins by marriage, Brad and Karen live very close to the East Harbor State Park campground where I recently flopped for a two night visit, which itself, is very close to the Bass Islands, the tourist mecca of the area.

Living in this state of perpetual, nautical ambiance is a lifestyle that would be very easy to get used to.

My tiny camper (below) peeks its nose out between a pair of spiffy motor home coaches at the campground. My temporary neighbors, each a couple with a passion for bicycling, were from Athens, OH (foreground) and, full-time RVers from a small Alabama town (black coach in the rear).

Tomorrow we conclude items of this camping outing with a look at a Civil War era cemetery on Johnson’s Island near Marblehead, OH.