1 Camper
2 Bicycles
1 Dog
2 Humans
3 States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)
18 Campsites in
13 Campgrounds
When an old sailing friend decided to join me on a little trip, last spring, it turned into a summer long incredible misadventure of great fun, lots of giggles, some occasional grief and a bit of wild pandemonium. Somehow we are still friends in spite of the sudden changes in plans brought on by a bit of bizarre chaos. Originally, my friend was planning to go back home last May, but the most incredible things kept happening. It's possible he stuck around longer just to see what kind of bedlam would turn up next.
I first started traveling in 2010. A fulltime RV owner told me they photographed every place their camper spent a night or more, so I decided that would be a fun thing too. In the last 5 years, I believe there is only 1 overnight campground picture missing from my photos (and it was a super nice spot too on the Ohio River in the fall of 2010).
These pics and parks below from my summer misadventures, were last minute reservations or just rolling into a place to see if they had room for us to park a spell. We were only turned away twice due to full camps. There was a great deal of summer chaos, what with me spraining an ankle then later shattering my wrist, emergency surgery, a few blown tires, one on each bicycle, one on the RV. Oh and the RV transmission died in the middle of nowhere, but close enough to be pushed by hand (and buckets of sweat) into a campground by several gallant senior workampers. We joked about that campground doing ANYTHING to get a customer through the entrance...
I survived and woke up alive this morning. What a miracle to behold!
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| Cedar Point Campground, Cedar Point, North Carolina Due to constant confusion on the part of the workampers, we had to change sites twice, making 3 sites total for this camp and I accidentally badly sprained my ankle on one of those moves. |
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| Kinston, North Carolina |
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| H. Cooper Black Junior Memorial Field Trial and Recreation Area Cheraw, South Carolina |
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| Kings Mountain State Park Blacksburg, South Carolina |
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| Palmetto Cove Cleveland, South Carolina |
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| North Greenville KOA Travelers Rest, South Carolina |
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| Springwood RV Park Greenville, South Carolina |
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| Bear Creek RV Park Asheville, North Carolina |
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| Springwood RV Park, 2nd time around Greenville, South Carolina |
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| Lake Hartwell Recreation Area Fairplay, South Carolina |
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| Barnwell State Park Blackville, South Carolina |
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| Tuck In The Wood Campground Saint Helena, South Carolina |
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| Hunting Island State Park Hunting Island, South carolina |
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| Jekyll Island Campground Jekyll Island, Georgia |
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Enjoy reading your blog... no matter what you're always upbeat in the reporting. I leave Wednesday for the bluegrass circuit. Will be in Folkston near you on the 13th at Newell Lodge. Hope to see you then..... then back to festival in Guyton, GA ... home for 1.5 weeks then back to FL and the Withlacoochee festival and whatever else I can get into. Surely we'll meet somewhere !!! Keep on smiling.
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I think you had some pretty nice looking campsites.
ReplyDeleteTo Lynn... I owe you an email of what's happening, but have a blast on the bluegrass circuit!
ReplyDeleteTo Gypsy... often I omit the 'neighbors" in the campgrounds, cutting and cropping the pics to just show my rig, on the other hand, many places we stayed were just not busy at the time, so we did have room and oh how I love trees!
Hope you're ready to pack up and move out of Joaquins way if it threatens the area you are in.Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteMikey, thanks, I just wrote about that on the post after this.
ReplyDeleteIt's looking better now with the latest forecasts but there still may be lots of rain.I know you're wise enough not to let your guard down though until that ole ugly thing is past your area.
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