On a beautiful  weekend in August the Keystone Kangaroos met to enjoy the beauty of the surroundings and the beauty of friendship.   Since this was our summer of health issues Franz and I were with our friends for the first campout of the year.  We had 13 members and we met at the Jonestown campground which is still kind of primitive.  We had chickens roaming around along with many kittens.  We were met with one of the kittens which our dog “Misty” soon had up a tree.  Thanks to Jan Gadsby soft talking to it, it obeyed and came down on it’s own.  Dave and Meg Burns could not make the weekend because their motor home needed some tender loving care and was in for repairs in a garage in Bloomsburg. 

We planned a very laid back agenda so that we could all relax and visit with each other.  Quite a few of our members went to Green Dragon on Friday and Friday night’s activity was a wonderful  campfire  that we sat around and told stories and ate a lot of peanuts.  Saturday morning we ventured out to “Esther’s Diner” for breakfast, and  when we returned to camp we had our business meeting.  In the evening we had a meal of desserts made by our members.  Now doesn’t that sound like something we all dream about doing?  We followed the dessert with a Chinese Auction which turned out to be very interesting to see who got what they wanted and bid on.  Another campfire  followed with more peanuts. We thank “Snuffy” Donahue for the wonderful campfires he provides for us at each rally.  Sunday morning we had a few sprinkles but that didn’t stop our appetite for some wonderful  B G’s donuts.  The sprinkles stopped and we all said our goodbys  until we meet again.   

September Rally Report
Wagon Master's Brian & Jean McKittrick

We arrived early at Mohigan Adventures Campground to prepare and scope out the area for are Keystone Kangaroo’s Rally. Most of the members from our club came in on Friday, the 20^th of September, with the exception of the Wheat’s who came in on Wednesday,  and the White’s who had motor home problems and weren’t able to get their unit repaired and were able to join us for the last day of the BU/BOA Rally. But that didn’t deter Ron and Carolyn from coming and joining us every day and hanging out with our members who were there. The arrival of the Tamarkin’s on Friday afternoon started things off on a funny note, as Mike had to use a ladder to exit his motor home, as he and Diane were locked inside and couldn’t open the door. But not to worry, $85.00 later they were able to enter and exit through the door and even lock and unlock it again.

Thirteen couples had arrived in time to go out to supper at the Trailway Restaurant right over the hill from the campground. When we had gotten back to the campground, three more couples had arrived. It poured Friday night after we got back from supper and we weren’t able to have a camp fire, it rained hard all night long, and was still raining Saturday morning when thirty-two of us left for breakfast at the Der Dutchan in Bellville. We held our club meeting after breakfast in one of the small room at the Conference Center at the campgrounds. The weather finally cleared in the afternoon, and we were able to have a camp fire in the evening. Sunday morning we all got together for coffee and donuts and afterward we were on are on to do whatever we wanted to. Sunday afternoon, the group got together to have hot dogs and all the fixing to watch the guys wash Dave and Meg’s motor home. We all had a enjoyable time and the guys just laughed and couldn’t believe that we all came to watched. 

Later into the BOA Rally, we again decided to go out for supper. This time Morris and I took a bike ride into town, and checked out a small restaurant called The Hanover House”. By now the number of people we had going had grown to thirty-eight. However, we did gain a new member in our club, and the possibility of another one joining us in the future.

All and all we had a good time. We understand that the Milne’s have bought another motor home while at the rally as well. We all wish them well with their new coach. What a week.