Celebrating Easter in a campground…

Since we are slowly working our way back home, we spent Easter in South Carolina…We don’t do ‘Easter baskets’, but we do get the kids some little thing – preferably something consumable! LOL! The first year that we traveled, we were so busy that we didn’t get around to dyeing eggs until the day of […]

Tallulah Gorge, GA…

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A few days ago, some fulltime friends of ours introduced us to Tallulah Gorge in northeastern Georgia.  Tallulah Gorge is a river ravine that runs 2 miles long and has cliffs of up to 1000 feet tall… This Georgia State Park has different levels of access to the park.  The guys each got one of […]

Cowpens National Battlefield, SC…

Happening just months after the battle at King’s Mountain, the conflict at Cowpens was also a patriot victory during the Revolutionary War. Cowpens National Battlefield is located just half an hour west of King’s Mountain NHP, in northwestern South Carolina.  We spent the afternoon there after visiting King’s Mountain (we went to King’s Mountain first […]

Kings Mountain National Military Park, SC…

After we left Congaree National Park on Friday, we drove to Gaffney, SC.  We just needed a place to spend the night before we visited a nearby park the next morning.  Pulling into the Gaffney Walmart parking lot in the dark, we found the most perfect Walmart campsite 😉 ever – right out our front […]

Congaree National Park, SC…

On Friday, we drove north to our 83rd National Park –  Congaree.  Congaree N.P. is a swamp in the middle of South Carolina.  After parking the 5er and truck in their spacious big rig parking lot, we walked up to the large visitor’s center.  Inside, the ranger was telling someone, over the phone, that they […]