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Hooray! It's been a full year since we bought our little camper! In one year, the little home has traveled to almost all of the Northeast and even into another country! We love our little house on wheels, and what better way to celebrate one year of ownership than with a weekend in the woods!
Way back, Rose and I bought tickets to see Old Crow Medicine Show at Pisgah Brewing Company. We had never been there, or even to the area, so we decided to head out a few months early and do a scouting expedition. Other interesting sights in the area include the Blue Ridge Parkway, Catawba Falls, and Mount Mitchell: the highest peak on the east coast. What a perfect opportunity to get in some precious mountain time!
Easter weekend was here...time to get our camp on! While researching places to camp a few weekends ago I had stumbled upon the South Carolina State Park site that advertises specific months that certain State Parks are cheaper to camp at. "Camping Specials" if you will. It just so happened that Easter weekend it was Hickory Knob State Park and Resort that was the lucky winner. For one heck of a deal I booked us 3 days, 2 nights worth of what we thought would be woodsy, peaceful camping. However, what we got was one chaotic, packed, wet and just overall bummer of a weekend.
It was the perfect weekend to escape into the woods with our camper. Each year Cameron and I sit down and create a list of goals that we hope to accomplish in the new year. For me it was to use our new trailer at least 12 times in the year. I knew with the wedding this summer it would be fairly easy since the plan was to camp through the whole trip. But still any chance we could get I would beg Cameron to take the trailer out (he wasn't hard to persuade.) We found a close by state park that had a lake and spots right on the water. What more did we need?! We loaded up on a Friday after work and headed to Cheraw State Park.
The weekend was free. Where do we run!? We had spent all winter cooped up in the house, huddled under blankets, dreaming of the day that we can once again use the truck and trailer we have been paying for neglected out in the yard. Finally the time had come. We had taken the Monday off from work for a three day weekend. So where do we go? Rain was in the forecast for the Carolinas. To the South and East: rain. To the North and West: ice. It seemed as if the first camping trip of 2019 was off to a rough start. If we aimed right, there was a small triangle in Georgia that had a lesser chance for rain. We took the shot.
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