Home again – Sunday evening

Because of the marginal wireless access last night at the campground, we weren’t able to post a blog. But I wanted to let everyone know we did arrive home safely. Actually the last two nights / three days on the road were quite pleasant. Both KOA campgrounds (in Fayetteville and Point South) were very nice – we’d like to stay there again.

By the way, if you have never heard of Point South, S.C., I hadn’t either, and I’ve been up I-95 past exit 33 more times than I care to think about, and I don’t remember ever seeing it. But there were two adjacent campgrounds – both looked nice. Our primary reason for picking this area was it is only 170 miles from home – an easy jaunt which got us in shortly after 2:00 p.m. We missed the cleaning crew(s) and yet were able to park on the street in front of the house, unload, and get the RV to storage before dark.

As you have likely noticed in reading the blogs, I almost never have pictures of the campgrounds we’ve stayed in. Usually they all look alike or are boring at best. Last night however was different. Right behind us was a very large, very nice Airstream Trailer. Parked next to it was this blue Mini-Cooper – from California – with no hitch! I know the Cooper didn’t tow the Airstream, but where was the tow vehicle and did the young lady really drive the Cooper all the way from California?

The other eye-opener was the RED trailer. In all our travels, I’ve never seen a red one. I went over to ask the folks about it. They said it was a standard model from ROADMASTERLLC.COM and had a cargo compartment in the rear for their Harley. As it turned out, they were from Lee County Florida (near Fort Myers). They had not only heard about Fernandina Beach / Amelia Island, they had just bought a lot at Oyster Bay – just off Amelia Island. One of our friends is a salesman for Oyster Bay. Although these folks hadn’t bought through Lou, they knew his name from the brochure. Small world.

I saved the bad news for last. Our contractor has not finished the house repairs. Worse, Hurricane FAY drove some water in through ??? and created new damage. Will it never end? Sigh…..

For those of you that have followed our blog for the last couple of years, you’ll recall that upon returning home, the blog STOPPED. This Spring several folks asked me to write even though we weren’t traveling. My thoughts were that not that much happened (we lead a boring life?) when we weren’t on the road. But this Fall promises many new adventures here in Fernandina Beach. So I will attempt to keep everyone posted. Probably not every day, maybe not each week, but at least once every two weeks? By the way, don’t hold me to that if I fall down on the job.

We do have another outing scheduled next month. There is a monthly Holiday Rambler club outing somewhere in Florida each month. We’ve never been to one, but we did join in hopes of picking up some valuable tips about the rig and meet some new folks. The one in November is in St. Augustine – roughly 80 miles south of us. If we go, it will be something to report on.