Daily Archives: July 6, 2009
Lake Fairfax and The Cheesecake Factory…
We left our site in Louisa, VA about 11:45 am and headed north about 100 miles to the Lake Fairfax Campground in Reston, VA.
Lake Fairfax County Park
We’re really out in the woods here and our site proves it. Although we have 50 amp electric, we’ll be without water and sewer for the next 6 days. We should be OK. I topped off our water tank to the full 100 gallons, instead of the 25 gallons or so we normally carry.
We don’t normally carry a full load of water because we only really need it for the few hours we’re on the road, and a full tank weighs 825 pounds. And the less weight we carry, the better gas mileage we get.
As far as our waste water tanks, our grey water (shower, sink, washer) tank holds 60 gallons and our black water (toilet) holds 40 gallons.
We shouldn’t have a problem with our black tank, but we have to be careful with the grey water because we use more of it. Showers are the big culprit, so we try to take quick ones. And using the washer is out. It only takes a few loads to fill up the tank.
If worse comes to worse, we can just unhook and drive a few hundred feet to the dump station, but hopefully we won’t have to .
We’re going to spend the next 6 days seeing the sights in Washington, DC. I think tomorrow we’ll do the Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum and maybe one of the trolley tours to help us get our bearings
Tonight we ate dinner at the Cheesecake Factory a few miles down the road in Sterling, VA. I think it’s the first time we’ve ever eaten that we weren’t celebrating someone’s birthday. Jan had the Chicken and Biscuits, and I had the White Chicken Chili. Both excellent.
Later…
