Army Corp of Engineers RV park

Today did about 190 miles to Franklin lock national RV park.  Here we were lucky enough to get a really beautiful site on the Caloosahatchee river near Fort Myers Florida.  Lynda and I spent a winter near here in 2001 at another campsite called upriver.  I worked as a kayak guide also that season out towards the Gulf.  We have many good memories of this area and are glad to be back for a couple of days.  

Tomorrow we will relax before heading on the next day.  The area is full of beautiful foleage and critters.

The campsite on the river

Back in Florida

One thing I told Lynda to make a note of was to never again have us be on the road the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  The traffic and people were nuts.  First off the speed limit of 65 and then 70 is much to fast for interstate 95.  When the road is packed with Sunday drivers bad things will happen and they did.  We saw two bad accidents but they didn’t get us.  I was stressed driving but we made it.  First to Georgia and today into Florida just east of Disneyworld.  In Georgia we couldn’t get internet and the cell phones were so slow.  The satellite tv was blocked by trees so no football for David.  Lynda downloads shows on her bbc ap so she is covered.  

On the left an accident blocking all lanes.

This motor home had the front smashed.

Our site tonight in Florida

Spanish moss on big oak, our bus in back

Made interstate 95

The famous route 95.  Link to Florida from the north.  Me below at the wheel of the Magic bus😎

Lynda scheduled us to get back on the road on this Saturday during the Thanksgiving weekend.  This gives us the advantage of avoiding Sunday’s mass rush out of this huge campground with so many rigs.  We hooked up after 5 days and drove 165 miles to a site we have stayed at before just north of Savanah Georgia.  Got a pull through site so we can stayed hooked to our truck and leave early tomorrow to beat the heavy holiday traffic.  Lynda took advantage of the inexpensive laundry here to do some wash.  By the way this place is called “Green Acres”  even has a huge pink pig by the office.  Didn’t see Ava Gardner or Eddie Arnold though.🙃. Lynda corrected me it’s Eva Gabor not Ava Gardner, sorry😐

Brookgreen Gardens

Lynda found a great garden close by and we went there today and so enjoyed the beautiful park.

This area had two older wounded, one shot, eagles that had lost a wing.  One was 33 years old and could barly see with cataracts.  The tender fed them rats.  This place has many hurt and healing animals, part of what they do.

Thanksgiving at Myrtle beach

Lynda and I feel comfortable here with it’s many amenities and best the ocean itself.  Nearby are many great places to eat and shop. One of my favorites being Popeyes Louisiana chicken, yum.🍗

Today we have made reservation at a German restaurant we had Thanksgiving dinner and enjoyed it last year, kind of cloudy and cool but ok .

 

Very good meal with nice music from a 90 year old fellow from Holland.

Wilmington Elks to Myrtle Beach

Last night we stayed in the back of the Elks in Wilmington North Carolina.  Nothing exciting there but a nice place to stop.  Lynda was happy as there was an Aldi near bye which she loves.  We stocked up on certain things they had and just spent a quiet night in the bus.  One thing was out of sort in that the plug on the hot water system was leaking.  I had put a regular pvc one on it years ago and it melted.  Today we stopped at camping world on the way here and bought the proper one which I have installed already.  

It was only 90 miles here and we are now in our site at Myrtle beach for 5 days on the ocean.  Lynda got to finally do some laundry and I took my new bike down from the carrier and has a nice ride.  It is a great bike.  Lynda told me they have adult tricycles guests camp use so hopefully she will get one and ride around the camp with me.

Parked behind the Elks in Wilmington NC.  It got down to 35F that night.

This is our site for the next 5 days, so nice.

Right down our road is the beach and ocean.

Cedar Island NC

Stayed The night at a campground by the ferry terminal on the mainland of North Carolina. It is one of our favorite spots and we’ve stayed here many many times. It was out of business last year but new people have bought the campground and the restaurant nearby and Are making a go of refurbishing it we are so glad. The best is it’s only $21 with passport America and we are right on the water and there’s a horse stable right across the way from usWith beautiful views.  Off to the Wilmington North Carolina Elks today for one night 

Ocracoke for the day

We relaxed today, walked, and then drove into the town of Ocracoke to explore it.  It is an amazing little village first settled by a group of navigation pilots sent over by Queen Elizabeth in the 1600s to guide ships through the narrow shallow channels around the area.  The inhabitants because it’s so remote out here, have retained what they call an English brogue in their speech.  Lynda found that very interesting and could hear some traces of Cornwall in their talk.

We agin stopped for lunch at a pub and had a really good meal for a low price.  While out we made reservations for the ferry that will take us back to the mainland south of here and spend a night near the ferry terminal at a camp called Ceder island right on the water.  There we will have full hookups again.

We found this museum which was nice and got a kick out of it being called the David Williams house🙂

This is called the British Cemetary,  where several Royal Navy sailers were buried after their ship was sunk by German U boats right off shore.

The Family Willians graves with two huge roosters.

That’s Charlie going to the beach with Lynda

With no hookups here we have a nice little propane heater that just takes the chill off with it being not that cold out.