Hungry Mother Park

Headed out from Mike's after breakfast and he and Pattie helped guide/encourage me out of their long driveway (first long backing up effort).  Arrived at Hungry Mother Park near Marion, VA and set the pop-up by 4:30 pm -- just in time for the rain to arrive again.  Stayed 3 nights and it rained almost all the time.  First, night didn't get the furnace fired up so, put the sleeping bag to good use (only in the low 40s at night).  Next morning went in search of a Burger King to order a "Whopper with Cheese" to celebrate little sister Kathy's birthday (May 17th would have been her 53rd).

I drove through Marion to the south end of town and a voice in my head took me right onto 81s and all the way to Abinddon before I found a sign for BK.  Passed through area on 81 that had been hit by a recent tornado.  Quite shocking to see all the damage and rhe Red Cross was there looking for donors of blood -- needed to save mine I thought for the nights and trip ahead.  Originally planned to stay 2 nights but, opted for a 3rd night in hopes of fishing some -- only had sunshine and couple patches of blue Wednesday afternoon and managed to catch one bluegill while fishing from the wall at the spillway of the dam.  First thing to chase my line was not much bigger than the lure and the next thing looked much bigger but, didn't hit the lure.

Park would probably have been much prettier without all the rain so, didn't get any pictures worth sharing.  Campsite was level and paved with clean modern restrooms, showers and washers/dryers for doing laundry.  Didn't have a view of the lake but, was just a short walk to the entry of the creek to the lake -- gazebo and fishing pier just a little farther.  Lake looked rather shallow and lots of submerged tree brances so opted to drive the mile or two to the dam and spillway.