A slow trek north!

 Sunday 28 March 2021

 A nice day here in Florida, a little cool but still in the low 70's.  That really nice oak tree we parked under turned out not to be such a prize.  Tree dirt and descending caterpillars are terrible. We gave up trying to sit outside and just stayed in the camper.   Diane  worked on finding us campgrounds for the

Cute restaurant.

trip home. She has been having trouble finding us camp sites everything along the coast is booked due to spring break so we are now heading through the middle of Georgia and SC, we had to skip one town we wanted to see.  She has made 17 phone calls and we are only booked to Easter.   We did get to have diner with Gabe at the Yearling Restaurant it was built in the 1930's after a famous writer (Marjorie Rawlings) moved there. The place was really nice, restored to the 1930 era.   Diane and Gabe had the ground steak special and it was very good and I had shrimp with greens also very good.  When Gabe walked in he was limping hard and had a big bruise on his face.  Seems his flip flops made him fall while he was at a frat party in St. Augustine, well that's what he told us😉😉.  Back to the Moho and started packing up.

Monday 29 March 2021

     Another warm day, sun was shinning bright by the time we were packing up.  I walked out side and the Moho was covered with caterpillars to the point we couldn't bring the slides in without smushing them.  I did spray a bunch of the other day and they die quickly but then turn into a glob of black goo.  Just gross!!  Once Diane had the inside packed up I got the leaf blower, climbed the ladder a blew off the slide out,  top of the topper, under the topper, then around and under the slide out, then Diane would put the slide in.  Move the ladder for each slide out.  When I turned on the blower the bugs, tree dirt and sand flew some sand and dirt coming back over me and like that is not enough the ants bit me as I was moving the ladder.  I was sweating with a light dusting of sand on me and bites from the ants, I just love camping!  We finally get on the road heading to Tifton Ga around noon.  Stopped for a quick lunch at a rest area we weren't back on the road for 5 minutes and the service engine oil light keeps coming.  We parked at 4pm and made arrangements to go to Gaffney Freightliner service center but when I called again to verify they said we didn't need one right now so cancelled and back on schedule to head to PA.  We stayed at the I75 campground in Ga.  Don't ever go there, small, very tight turns and rough roads.

Tuesday 30 March 2021

   Up and ready to go by 10am.  We had a pull through and didn't hook up sewer so we were on the road by 10 am heading to the Pointes West Army RV resort.  Another great southern day for traveling with temp's neat 80.  We stopped at the new Buc-ee's they are just so cool and diesel was cheap. Shortly after

Nice Sites!

that Diane had us traveling up two land roads through little towns on a few "short cuts" roads but we made it and the scenery was much nicer on the side roads.   We pulled in to the gate house around 3:30 another 200 plus mile day for us. What a nice place that is right on Clark Hill lake. We got all set up and decided to have steaks tonight as the weather is turn cold soon. 

Wednesday 31 March 2021

    We had breakfast on the grill probably the last for awhile with the weather changing.  We headed into the small town of McCormick, SC another quaint old town and sadly most of the big businesses have

It's sad to see the
small towns die!!

moved out and nothing left to support it. We went to two restaurants both closed and finally having lunch at a tiny little place The McCormick Chicken drive thru, no longer a drive thru and seating for about six skinny people but the chicken was great.  We did stop at the USCOE volunteer camp and talked to a guy about the lake and volunteering there.  We told him it didn't look like the visitors center was open,  he said that was because they had a fire and have gotten no funding to fix it.  With all of the government money flying around now days you would think they could fix one visitor center building.   Shortly after getting back the rain started turned into thunderstorms and lasted most of the night.  Diane made a new Mexican dish for diner it was ok not real spicy.  After diner we noticed water was leaking in along the bedroom slide.  We put down towels trying to minimize the damage until the rain stops.

Thursday 1 April 2021

   Oh my how the weather has changed.  Got up this morning temp's in 40's oh burrrrr, burrrr cold! And windy, I almost forgot that part.  Breakfast inside.  But we didn't hibernate and drove up to Washington

Beautiful old buildings
in Washington, GA.

Ga a very historic town.  But first was lunch surprise surprise.  The sun was out and we thought we had enough jackets with us but we were wrong.  We stopped at the first open restaurant we found the C'est La Vie  lunch was good and we would go back.  After lunch we were going to walk around the town square reading up on Civil War history.  We read two plaques about Jefferson Davis's and last days of the war.  By then we realized it was way to cold and windy to walk around so we hit  two antique shops(right by were we parked) before heading home.  We would really like to come back here so much history.  We started packing for a short drive to Greenville SC tomorrow.

Friday 2 April 2021

   We took our time packing up only a little over a 100 miles to go today and it was cold this morning so

Rudy trying to get warm,
he misses Florida.

I waited until the sun was up and shining on our site.  Hit the road about 11:30.  Another day of mostly two lane roads narrow and without out rest areas.  About a hour into the trip I had to go. We drove by a shopping plaza I realized we would fit so slam on the brakes and turn.  Diane didn't even get what the heck you doing out and we were parked.  A nice lunch break and we are back on the road.  We pulled in at 3:30 4 hour to go 125 mile but it was all back roads.  This place the 290 RV Park is another to never visit.  Narrow uneven sites.  We didn't get  level the back end would have been off the ground quite a bit.