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Campground Report - Bethany Beach Training Site

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This is a military campground , so not a place the average camper can stay.  I had been wanting to try this campground out for a while, and the wife and I were going to have a three day weekend, so we made a plan to visit Ocean City, MD for a day and stay at the campground. The camp sites are part of the training facility.  There is a laundry facility on site and all the sites I saw had water, electric, and sewer.  Cement pads that were very level and some even down near the water.  Not the ocean side, but an inland water area with a dock and a small beach. There was no WiFi but there was a Poke Gym and two Poke Stops.  So if you're into Pokemon Go  then you'll have some fun there. Over all the camp ground was really quiet.  It was about $30 a night, but considering how close we were to Ocean City (20 minutes) and with the town of Bethany Beach just a little ways up the road (.5 miles) we thought it was totally worth it. Next time we plan to take the bikes and ride i

Camping trip....but tires first

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The Lovely Wife and I had planned to take a trip to the ocean as they say here in Maryland.  The trip began the night before by picking up the camper from storage and bringing it back home. The next morning we were loading up and the wife noticed that there looked to be some tread pulling away on some of the tires.  By some, we mean all four to various degrees. The trip wasn't supposed to be terribly long, but long enough that these tires presented a problem.  It was Friday morning.  I called a few places that did RV service and no one was going to be able to help me.  One of them recommended a tire place in Glen Burnie.  Gillette Tire Distributors. I gave them a call and they said they could take me whenever I got there.  So we loaded up and headed over.  They had to finish up working on a big rig trailer but got to us and replaced all four tires in under an hour.  I was also pleasantly surprised by the price. New tires in place we headed out.  I had or