We are in the Big Bass National Forest Campground. Great little place. More about that later.
In the last blog, I told you we had stayed overnight in Clayton, NC. Prior to that we travelled from West Chester, PA through Washington, DC on I-95. Washington was grey, rainy, full of traffic and cold.
It was nice to get going south to Virginia and North Carolina where it was supposedly warmer..
At one of our MANY fuel stops. We are getting 7.7 mpg.
When we reached Savannah, GA we decided to drive downtown - to relive an experience from many years ago. It didn't disappoint. The streets were narrow but we got to see the waterfront.
We even decided to cross the Rte 17/25 bridge north over the Savannah River. It was the steepest climb that we have had in the whole trip so far. Maybe we can climb mountains because going up that bridge felt like we were mountain climbing.
After the bridge, we headed south again on I-95 looking for warmth. We found it as we crossed the Georgia-Florida State line. We wheeled into the Florida Welcome Station and sure enough, they had free orange or grapefruit juice. Sheryl went for the OJ while I took the grapefruit juice. Oh my, we were almost to warmth.
I liked the clock entitled Florida Time. Notice the hands, the lack thereof.
We left the Florida Welcome Center happy and loaded up with pamphlets. We were in warmth and headed for more. We traveled on I-95 until we got to Daytona Beach and then turned the truck west in search of the Big Bass Campground in the Ocala National Forest. Traveling west out of Altoona, FL, and following the directions from Fred and Suzi Dow's website and watching my DeLorme Topo 9.0 map running on the laptop, we eventually arrived at this little National Forest Campground. There are 18 really nice sites. There is a dump site and there are water spigots throughout the campground. We found a site that had a huge paved area for the travel trailer. It was even paved under the picnic table and had a grill. How sweet it is.
We got set up just as the daylight was fading. I quickly gathered some downed wood and in no time, we had a campfire for roasting marshmellows.
A perfect ending to a great day. We had finally found warmth. We woke up the next morning to rain around 4:30 a.m. I guess it was about 9:30 a.m. that we decided to make breakfast - OUTSIDE under the awning in spite of the rain..
After breakfast, we sat outside under the awning, drank our coffee and read our Bibles. What a nice day. Then the sun came out around 1 p.m. and we got out the charcoal and proceeded to cook all kinds of grill-able meat.. some for lunch and some to put in the refrigerator to be warmed later.
We might watch a movie later. We can have the generator on until 10 p.m., but we try to keep it quiet. There are only 3 other units camping here. And, there is a campground host for added security. It's a great place to camp. And did I mention the price: $5 per night with our Senior Pass. We might stay a couple more nights or a couple more weeks. Who knows. We are here in warmth.
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