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Jordan Lake State Recreation Area
Sometimes you discover jewels in your own backyard. Jordan Lake State Park is one of those jewels. We’ve sailed small boats here for years, but had never visited a campground or the dam. A get-together of the NC Roadtrekkers and Friends group gave us an excuse to remedy that situation. With over 1,000 sites to…
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Robot Food Transport
FRC high school robotics competition season is underway and the van is back in service as a rolling chuck wagon. Here she sits in the parking lot at UNC Greensboro as the moon rises over the baseball stadium. Happily, our games were played inside the basketball stadium where temperatures were nicely controlled. We became interested…
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Kennedy Space Center
Heading home from visiting parents in Florida we decided to stop at Kennedy Space Center. We had witnessed a shuttle launch from Titusville’s Space View Park, back in 2006, but never actually visited Cape Kennedy. Another draw was that this is one of the few places our 18 year old, freshman engineering student, was interested…
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Abbeville and Home
29,642 8:47 AM 49° F Waking up at Calhoun Falls State Park we peeked out the window to find fog on the water. Campsite from our little beach. The beach has enough room to pull up a small boat. Lake Calhoun beckoned, but we didn’t bring a boat, so we decided to head…
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Augusta Waterways
29,509 6:29AM 38°F Magnolia Springs State Park 29,552 9:54AM 51°F Augusta Canal National Heritage Area We arrived just in time to join a canal boat full of youngsters for a narrated tour of the Augusta Canal. The kids were very well behaved, asking good questions that made the hour-long…
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St. Simons, Sailors, Fire, and Magnolia Springs
29,028 miles 9:45 AM 73°F Leave Sun-N-Fun 29,334 miles 4:34 PM 64°F Arrive Coastal RV Park The drive from Sarasota, FL to Brunswick, GA was uneventful. We joined the Good Sam RV Club through a special offer that includes a one night $25 rebate, so we decided to use it at the Coastal…