Remote Control Fun and Holiday Crowds

Outpost Campground near Salt Lick, Kentuckyhere for the week.
doesn't have a pond or lake. The opportunity to runThe gravel roads are perfect for giving me plenty of
remote control boats doesn't present itself here.fun time with the monster trucks.
All the roads around the campsites are gravel, andNow that the holiday campers moved out I have
not smooth enough for our low-slung RC racing cars.those roads all to myself. No golf carts and bicycles
What Outpost does have is plenty of open space,to dodge. I wouldn't run the RC trucks while the little
more than enough sly for flying radio controlones rode their bikes. They represented a hazard not
helicopters and airplanes. A few trees grow aroundonly to the remote control vehicle, but also to
the facility, but not thick enough to interfere with ourthemselves, because they didn't bother paying
flying fun.attention to anything in their path. On more than one
Large grassy areas provide for take-off and landing.occasion I watched near collisions between bicycles
The surface is a bit bumpy. No smooth experience,and golf carts. I felt like my trucks didn't have a
but an excellent training ground for improving pilotchance in all that traffic.
skills.There's nothing to stop my remote control fun now.
With all this open space we could stage airplane racesControlling those golf carts that are moving around
or create some aerobatic stunt displays.are adults, and a few older kids who are more
The campground was too crowded Memorial Dayattentive to where they're going. They leave plenty
Weekend for any flying activities though. With all theof room for my truck to run the just over a mile of
kids I don't think it was safe, and what fun is planeroad, and even more off-road terrain.
racing without a bunch of people to watch and enjoyAnd as an added bonus I get my exercise walking
it. Now the weekend is over, and the crowd is gone.along with it.
Only a few full-time residents remain, and me. I'm