The day finally came - October 16 - and we pulled out of the farm and headed back on the road!!
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| Pulling out of the farm |
When Aaron pulled the RV down the driveway at the farm, it really struck me how much different it really looks after all the work we did on the exterior. I almost feel like we have a brand new RV!
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| Quick refresher...this is what the front *used* to look like |
Last year when we headed south we took our time, stayed places several days, and ended up in sub-freezing temperatures at several campsites before finally making it to Florida...this year we made a beeline to Florida. We escaped West Virginia right before things started freezing overnight again, and those last few rushed days of work on the exterior were COLD.
We did decide to start out in the familiar Orlando area for now. We're still wary of how things will go with the coronavirus, and Florida offers several advantages on this front...(1) we know the area and know how to find places to camp even if everything is crowded from everyone suddenly deciding to vacation in an RV; (2) annual passes to Disney and 'free' (already paid for in annual subscription) camping at Thousand Trails mean we can keep our expenditures low while we wait and see what happens to our savings in the stock market; (3) if things really head south and everything closes again, we can make it back to the farm in a hard day's drive. If things are looking ok (i.e., not closed, life savings not tanked) by Christmas, we may head out along the Gulf Coast later in the winter, but for now we're playing it safe.
Our 'quick' trip south this time involved four 3 hour days. We stayed at a Cracker Barrel on I-77 the first night, then New Green Acres in Walterboro, SC the second night, and finally our favorite Cary State Forest just outside of Jacksonville.
Not much to say about the Cracker Barrel, but I did snap a picture. There are a lot of Cracker Barrels that accept RVs overnight with dedicated spaces to the rear of the restaurant, always convenient to an interstate, so it's a great overnight option.
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| Parking at the Cracker Barrel - there was a bit of a crowd! |
New Green Acres was a lovely little RV park, I'd definitely go back there. It was convenient to I-95, the pull-through sites were pretty spacious (for a private RV park), and everything seemed pretty clean. Our neighbors for the night were a couple moving from Narrows, Virginia - a tiny town on the road from my childhood home to the family farm! Small world. AND they complimented us on how nice our RV looked without us telling them anything about the days and days we'd put into fixing the paint and clear coat, which was so rewarding!
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| Our campsite at New Green Acres RV Park |
I've blogged about Cary State Forest before so I won't go on and on about it again - suffice it to say it is one of my favorites. One thing made us scratch our heads a bit though...in my previous post I mentioned how very far the campsites are from each other, just 7 in the whole forest...but even so, they were practicing social distancing here and had every other site closed!
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| The sign on the site 'next' to us - not that anything was very close! |
While we were parked there on a nice non-muddy concrete pad we washed and waxed the basement doors - something we ran out of time for before getting on the road.
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| Our campsite at Cary State Forest |
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