Getting ready to travel

Our friends, Kathy and Gary (from Leesburg,Virginia), arrived yesterday afternoon in a driving rain complete with lightening and thunder. But we had no outside activities (tourist things) planned so we stayed in and enjoyed talking over what we’ve been doing.

Gary retired earlier this year from Lockheed. Like most retirees, he had thought he’d have lots of free time to pursuit various activities including sailing, but like most of us, things continue to happen that take our attention and efforts. Kathy’s a retired nurse and spends a lot of her time with her horse(s?) riding et.al. when she’s not on the boat sailing with Gary.

We are in the final count-down for our trip. We plan to pick up the RV from storage tomorrow a.m. and park in front of our house (the street is usually pretty empty on Sunday mornings) and pack. This is easier than loading the Saturn, driving to the unit, and unloading. Then tomorrow evening we’ll stay in the RV at Fort Clinch State Park.

Unless something unexpected comes up on Monday / Tuesday (days we are scheduling to permit dealing with the unexpected), I will try to do some more photos in the Park and possibly even get around to writing my blog narrative that I promised many weeks ago.

Then Wednesday morning, we’re off. Not sure where we’ll stay Wednesday night. Thursday and Friday we have reservations at the Kings Mountain State Park in South Carolina. The park is close to Shelby, NC – home of my remaining relatives (on my mother’s side). We plan to visit with Travis and Staci, but he works night shifts and she works days, so I’m not sure how much time we’ll have with them. We’ll see.

Then on Saturday, we head up the road to the Appalachians – not sure where but maybe as far as western Virginia.