Wow! October has flown by
almost without me noticing. OK, so the 17th was my birthday and we went
out for supper, but with the weather down here in Georgia remaining pretty much
constant instead of summer fading into fall, time slipped by. Darlene & I were
getting acclimated to living in our 5th wheel trailer full time, learning
what was expected of us as Park Hosts, and adjusting to having no television and
limited Internet access. The ever-shortening days went by and the blogging
languished. Now it’s November, we have fixed our Internet access problem, and
we’re pretty much in the groove here at General Coffee State Park. So, let me
finish the saga of traveling from Indy to Douglass, GA.
In my last blog we were in
Virginia heading south. From Pioneer Village in VA we had a fairly short,
leisurely drive to Lake Norman State Park near Troutman, North Carolina.
Since I had been having some
trouble with my front landing gear on the trailer when raising the trailer to
hitch to the truck, we stopped at Camping World (which just happened to be at
our exit) to check it out. I got an appointment for the day we were to leave,
so it would be a convenient stop.
Lake Norman is the largest
manmade lake in North Carolina. The State Park boasts a great mountain biking
network, a swimming beach and bathhouse complex, a boat ramp, and much more. Of
course, it has a campground.
Arriving at a campground
where you have never been, to find your site & park is sometimes an
adventure in itself. So it was that day. Pulling up to the site, I was
immediately and undoubtedly convinced that NO ONE could get my rig into that
site. Bummer!! The site was long enough. But the road was narrow and carefully
guarded by posts and trees which would make backing a 40 foot trailer into the
site impossible. That’s an aggravating deficiency of Reserveamerica.com. The
computer knows the length of the rig and the site and they match so you get the
site. Wrong! I can’t just drop my trailer on the site from above. I have to be
able to maneuver it into the site from the road. Without going into a lot of
physics and using numerous drawings, you may not understand, but believe me,
that site and my trailer were not a matching pair. Stupid software!
We talked to a very nice
Campground Host who wanted to help but could not authorize a site-swap. The
campground was full but not all sites were occupied yet. There was hope. A call
to the park ranger in an office somewhere got me the name and number of a
person in a site I could use (don’t tell HIPAA!). They agreed to a swap when I
called. Irritated, but thankful for an understanding camper, we got into a
suitable site.
One caveat: Lake Norman has
no hookups (I knew that when I made the reservation). That’s not a problem for
us with the water we carry and the solar panels and inverter to provide
electricity. We had a great couple days in a beautiful state park.
Oh, about that appointment at
Camping World for my landing gear problem, come on back read more adventures of
Mosey’nMillers.
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