Pioneer Village Campground in VA

As I write today we are comfortably camped at General Coffee State Park near Douglas, GA. That’s many miles and 10 days since I last posted about our travels. I’m sorry. I owe you an explanation. So here goes.

I intentionally planned our route from home to General Coffee SP to avoid large metropolitan areas and to frequent Interstate highways only as necessary. As a result, we were mostly out of cell range (and thus Internet access) for much of the 10 days traveling. You might find it hard to believe, but there are lost of places where Verizon has sporadic to no signal. No Internet, no posts :-(

Now, let me catch you up on our travels. While we saw a lot of new and different countryside and many beautiful vistas, our trip was mostly about getting from home to here. So, after escaping Mothman, we typically drove a day and sat a day and drove again. That said, I don’t have stories and pictures about battlefields or caves or cars buried nose first in the ground. We did experience several great campgrounds that we would revisit if given the chance. Let me tell you about them.

  

Pioneer Village RV Park near Max Meadows, VA is a great campground with all pull-thru sites with full hookups as far as I could tell. There were some long-term folks there living in RV’s while working on a pipeline. There were some seasonal campers and plenty of us RV’ers passing through. 

A beautiful small river with noisy rapids and quiet pools runs along one side of the campground in a pastoral park—a fantastic place to walk the dog and soak up nature. 

All this and it’s only a hundred yards from the Interstate which overlays traffic noise on all the convenience and beauty. What’s the saying? “You can’t have it all.”

A funny, sad, side-note to our stay in VA. On our morning to sit & relax there was an elderly (more elderly that me) couple in a nice Class-C Motorhome next to us. They were breaking camp to leave as I sat under my awning sipping coffee. They got everything picked up and the RV started to pull forward. It stopped. It backed up a little. The older couple got out & started examining the side of the RV away from my view. A few minutes passed. I saw the older (than me) gentleman walking around, So I asked if something was wrong? Need help?  He gestured for me to come around to his campsite, so I walked over. 

The awning which is supposed to stick straight out 8 feet or so was strangely swept back toward the rear at about a 45 degree angle. Ooops!! He had gotten everything ready to leave, except the awning. It was never retracted. When it met the tree in his campsite, the tree won. He had no clue what to do. We tried to pull/push it back into place so they could drive home. No joy! 

I finally explained that probably the only thing to do was remove it from the RV. That is what we did. After cutting the fabric loose from the top, I unscrewed the rails from the side of the RV, cut the electric connections and he was free to go. The nice park caretakers agreed to dispose of the evidence. I would like to have heard the account he gave his insurance agent.

The next morning Darlene & I set out through Virginia for our next stopover in North Carolina. Come on back to hear more about the Mosey’n the Millers were doing.