May 17 2017. Reunited with our Airstream!

LOCATION:  Lake Lanier, Georgia - outside of Atlanta

 

CAMPGROUND:  Bolding Mill Corps of Engineer Park.  On Lake Lanier.  Huge, paved sites; ours is pull through.  Each site has a grill and a fire pit.  Picnic tables.  Electricity and water hook-up at all sites.  Dumping station.  Immaculate.  Great bathrooms and showers.  $11 with senior rate.  5+ starts out of 5!

 

WEATHER:  Miserably hot.  95ish.  Sunny.  

 

With the time zone difference, we woke up early, ready to get a good start on our 1600-mile trip to our tiny house in Mission, Texas.  Uh-oh.....the refrigerator is not working.  That French cheese is really getting smelly now!  We will try the refrigerator again on electricity tonight and see if the gas set-up is the problem.

 

Even though we thought we didn't have much to do, it seemed to take quite a bit of time to get the Airstream ready to go.  Finally, we were set to depart.  We had put boards under the tires for storage, so the Airstream would not sink into the ground.  When George pulled out, one of the boards flipped up and smashed the stairs.  Oh-no!   George then had to spend about an hour trying to fix the stairs....  

 

We were finally off, with the stairs still broken, and with an iffy refrigerator, at about 10:00 AM.  We have about a week to get to Mission, so are going to take our time, avoiding Interstates and big cities when we can.  

 

We drove through lots of quaint little towns in North Carolina and South Carolina, towns with interesting sounding names - Pumpkin Center,  Strawberry Hill, Cherry Blossom.  We drove by lots of peach trees, strawberry fields and pine forests.  We started looking for a campground at about 4:00.  There was nothing, so we kept on going.  We were getting scarily close to Atlanta, which we absolutely did not want.  In Gainesville, Georgia we stopped at a McDonalds to use wifi, to make sure we were not headed towards Atlanta and to search for RV parks.  There was nothing online. We thought that we drove near the Lake Lanier area that surely there would be campgrounds.  Outside of Gainesville,  I spotted a sign for a Corps of Engineer park and we got off the highway.  Happily, we found the park and it is a gem.  The only bad part is that we had to call an 800 number to get a reservation, even though we were parked at the park itself.  I was on hold for about a half hour.  By this time, it was 7:00 PM!    

 

I hadn't bought any groceries, not knowing if the refrigerator would work or not.  We plugged into the electricity and will see if it starts working.  Meanwhile, that French cheese is getting even smellier!!!!

 

DINNER:  Really rock bottom --- a package of instant mashed potatoes with a can of Vienna sausage chopped up.  But, we sat outside on the picnic table, gazing over the lake and were really happy to be on the road again!