Campground Host Experiences Working Major Events as Park Hosts jolenemac455, November 21, 2015 Working major events as park hosts can be really trying on your body and your required volunteer hours. Even if you are one of the volunteers just getting the park ready for the events you will end up using quite a bit of your hours. If you are working the… Continue Reading
Campground Host Experiences Summer on the Suwannee jolenemac455, June 4, 2015 Summer on the Suwannee River is going to be exciting and it will be hot and muggy too. It’s a very good thing that we will be in a Florida State Park that has a cool spring for swimming. As we speak our little RV air conditioning unit is thinking… Continue Reading
Campground Host Experiences Winding Down Here at Stephen Foster jolenemac455, April 19, 2015 We are winding down here at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park. The campground is looking better as we, and our fellow volunteers, slowly rake, sweep, clip and blow the leaves and trim the bushes in and around the campground area. We finally found a hand blower that I… Continue Reading
Campground Host Experiences Its Cold Then Its Hot jolenemac455, March 6, 2015 March is such a strange month in Florida. Yes, I know our poor neighbors to the north and out west are almost frozen in and we really are not complaining but, man!, will mother nature please make up her mind. First we’re cold and then it warms up and then… Continue Reading
Campground Host Experiences Brrrr Its Cold Up In Here jolenemac455, February 20, 2015 Brrr…It’s Cold Up In Here. We have been here at Stephen Foster for almost two months now. Yes, we are in the middle of winter here in North Florida but we were hoping to escape some of the worst of the cold weather this year. I know we haven’t had… Continue Reading
Funding Our Adventure Have Fun Even When You Work jolenemac455, February 2, 2015 Have fun even when you are working! We are in the middle of a 7 day stretch working in the campground here at Stephen Foster Cultural Center State Park. We wanted to switch over to having weekends off with our co-campground hosts this month to see if we could earn… Continue Reading