The Distance: A modest 254 miles, most of it driving back from our second Tennessee state park to our work camping destination, Lake Powhatan Campground and Recreation Area. Which means our annual mileage will remain at 2,481 until mid November when we complete or time at Lake P and work our way back to Florida for the winter.

The Places:  We started the month with eight days at Cumberland Mountain State Park (completing a, for us, lengthy 12 day visit) and then hit our second Tennessee state park, Fall Creek Falls. Two weeks into August we made the run back east to Lake Powhatan, where we remained for the rest of August.

We spend all 31 days of August at public campgrounds (14 at state parks, 17 at a national recreation area). We had full hook ups for the 17 days at Lake Powhatan, and partial (electric and water) for 14 days at both of the Tennessee state parks.

The Budget: We finally broke our string of over budget months by coming in just under in August, and w did so despite having to pay our annual motorhome insurance bill. Granted, we were not even 2% under budget, but after three months significantly over, we will take it, especially since we are confident things will only get better over the next few months.

We were aided in our budget austerity by a limited amount of mileage (which required only one full fill up for Serenity) and free camping for 17 days at Lake Powhatan (which lowered our daily camping fee average to $15 for the month, compared to between $48, $31 and $28 in May, June, and July, respectively.) We also derived some benefit from being in remote areas or near only very small towns which offered limited temptations for unnecessary expenditures, at least until we got back to the Asheville area.

The Drama and Improvements:  Nothing significant to report this month.