House Setters For RV Adventures

We're heading out on an RV adventure on the 22nd and will be gone at least three and a half weeks...the longest that we will be gone so far.

We are fortunate in that we live in an area that people love to come to visit and that we have retired friends and relatives that live in areas that they want to escape from at certain times of the year. Like I said, this will be our longest adventure and we are so relieved to have escapees from the frozen North coming to stay at the house while we're gone. 

Some things can't go almost a month without tending...like plants, the hot tube (they can't wait to use it), not having to have the mail held is great, or the furnace...if we get a cold snap and the furnace drain line freezes (again) and the furnace won't turn on and if no one is there to drain catch basin, water pipes will freeze and burst....I can feel my blood pressure going up just writing about the potentials for disaster.

What a relief not to have to worry about all that stuff. They (Sweetie's cousin and wife from Chicago area) will get here a couple of days before we leave and get the low down on plants, mail, hot tub, furnace, fire place and anything else we think of.

We're pretty sure we have sitters lined up for our summer adventure...escapees from southern Florida.

Ok, you're asking "What does the photo have to do with this post?"...well the probable sitters/escapees are the kids and grandkids of my fellow bobber in the picture. Grandparents and family get weeks of visiting....just not 24/7....we get peace of mind...a win-win situation.

Yesterday the 301A went into the motorhome along with several projects and fabric scraps for several more. Hopefully it will warm up a little by Saturday so we can finish readying the motorhome for a Sunday morning departure.

Hiatus Happenings Part 2.5

Our go to spot for camping is Woodring COE campground on Carters Lake, which is only 26 miles from the house...probably less than 10 miles as the crow flies.

These are our two favorite sites.

This one is our number one choice of the two...it's just so private. Camping here is like having lake front property without the expense or maintenance and if we want a different lake view we just move on down the road.

It is handy to be so close to home for those times that we forget something. Every time we go there different groups of friends come out and spend the day. Two couples came over for Sweeties birthday this summer.

Hiatus Happenings Part 2

In May, we brought Mel (Jayco Melbourne 29D) home and then we hit the road! The above photo was taken at Oconee COE Campground on Lake Hartwell...we're heading back there this Spring.

Above, we are at Lake Powhattan a Cradle Of Forrest campground outside Asheville. This was the only site available when we booked and although it had the best view in the whole campground, it was a weed patch. This was the only time that we stayed at a COF campground....and maybe it's just this one, but it was run oddly. In most campgrounds, there's usually two host sites...here there were ten and it's a small campground....odd. We stayed in the full hook up loop (only time so far) and the most expensive, yet most poorly maintained loop....odd. Our loop was weedy (especially our site) and gravel was sparse in most sites (especially ours) and the only thing we saw the hosts doing was aimlessly ride in golf cart and walk the loop with a leaf blower cleaning the road (several times)....odd. If we were to camp in the Asheville area again, we would stay at the campground again, but in the primitive loop. The sites in that loop were more spacious and better maintained and this COF campground had the best shower houses that we've seen so far.

What we learned: we like camping by water.

The above photo was taken at Springfield COE on Lake Hartwell. You can't go wrong at a COE campground. We camped there again in the late fall.

Here we are at Twin Lakes COE campground on Lake Hartwell...we shared a double site with our friends that live up the road from us.

We left Twin Lakes and headed up to Devils Fork State Park on Lake Jocasee . The park was only OK, but Lake Jocasee is spectacular.

In the second half of 2014, we camping for 50 days and we have some big trips already booked for 2015.