Heading North for the Summer

May 17 – Leaving this summer is a bit bittersweet for us. Since having had to put our dog Xena to sleep just days ago, it has been a very sad week of mixed emotions. If Xena enjoyed anything in life it was riding in the truck and sniffing every blade of grass at every truck stop, rest area and campground we visit on our trips. At 14 she had a lot of miles on her, both literally and figuratively. It’s a real transition after 3 summers on the road not to have her in the truck with us. Even Molly has behaved different today.

However, we did manage to have a rather uneventful day, which in the Chambers house is something to celebrate. We didn’t manage to leave as early as planned, but then I don’t think we’ve ever managed it. After loading the last of the groceries and electronics and a final stop at Wal-mart we were on the road 8:45.

 

The route today was to Daytona and north on I-95. Traffic was “normal” and we breezed through Jacksonville. We did a mid-morning break at a rest area north of Daytona and had lunch at the Welcome Station in Georgia. Then it was just a couple hours to our campground, New Green Acres RV Park in Walterboro, SC. It’s right off the interstate and very convenient with huge pull thru spaces and really tall pine trees. The only negative is the office lady gave the wrong directions, which we figured out before we got into trouble and then Bill said she wasn’t the most pleasant person to be greeting people. We were also afraid to attempt to sit at our picnic table for fear we’d go down with it.

After dinner we walked around the park checking out all the Class A’s. I know it was hard for Bill not to have Xena to walk and see other people with their dogs. He said how lucky they were, but he had all the luck for over 14 years, so now it is someone else’s turn.

Got my wifi hotspot on my phone working after a call to ATT, so hope I’m good to go for the summer.