Category: Camping
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Birthday at Barren Ridge
13 August 2021 It’s Beth’s birthday and we are headed off on a new adventure. Even though the posting is seven months behind where we are today, we hope you will enjoy a new series of posts highlighting places on a 45 day trip to Maine, New York, and Wisconsin. Leaving home at 0830,…
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Into the Swamp
04 May 2021 Waking up at Trader’s Hill Campground, we found a message from, friend and fine bass, Joe Simpson letting us know that the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was just down the road. Two of his former co-workers run Okefenokee Adventures so Joe encouraged us to stop by and say “hey” from for him. Always up for new…
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Trainspotting In Folkston
03 May 2021 Today Beth is humoring me with a sidetrip to the Folkston Funnel to see some trains. At 0830 we left Cypress Grove Campground and Lake Santee in South Carolina behind to head south on I-95. Noon had us eating lunch in the van at Georgia Peach World. We checked out the parking…
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NC to Santee and Lake Marion
02 May 2021 On our way to Florida, we planned an easy and familiar destination, just four hours south. Leaving home a little after nine, by noon we had pulled over into a parking lot at Robeson Community College to make lunch. Classes weren’t in session, so we had no competition for a spot in…
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Following the Neuse
Living near the Eno River, we enjoy a little bit of nature there most every day. Not far from us, the Eno combines with the Flat River forming Falls Lake, a major water supply for Raleigh, the capitol city of North Carolina. The outfall of that lake is the beginning of the Neuse River. For…
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Escape to Kerr Lake
11 March 2021 Forecasted daytime highs in the 80’s gave us an excuse to leave the confines of our neighborhood and go visit a new (to us) campground on Kerr Lake. Built by the US Army Corps of Engineers damming the Roanoke River in the early 1950’s, Kerr Lake reservoir has over 800 miles of…
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