Following Our Arrow

Lake Greenwood State Park May 24 - 27 2024; Site #51 Other possible sites:  53 This was our first visit to Lake Greenwood State Park.  We had heard mixed reviews and while we liked our site and being on the lake, which was super clean, the park itself has sites on top of each other and it was hard to maneuver with a rig as big as Geraldine! We left on Friday after the girls got out of school early and arrived just in time for a rain storm to come through as we tried to get set up.  This was a “slight slope” of a site, but their definition of “slight” is far different from ours!  We had to hook and unhook 3 times and eventually manually level as much as we could after adding leveling blocks to the driver’s side and resorting to our “level” being slightly off with wheels on the camp side completely off the ground.  (Fun fact: over 90% of the campers we saw throughout the park were in a similar situation, some with no wheels on the ground at all!! Our next door nei...

May 3 - 6, 2024: Blythe Island Regional Park, GA Site #57; Other sites to ponder - almost all the 90’s! This was a GREAT little regional park - our first time trying this vs a state park.  We really enjoyed it.  We arrived after an early release day for the girls - actually, I screwed up - it was NOT early release!  So I took them out early.  *TERRIBLE MOM AWARD GOES HERE!* On the way there, we got the MOST AWESOME call - Grace got into Charleston School of the Arts!  To say she was overwhelmingly happy is definitely an understatement! Crying tears of JOY! Within about 45 minutes of leaving the house, the park called and told us the front desk closed at 5, but if we weren’t going to be there before then (we weren’t!), they would leave instructions for us.  They were SUPER courteous!  We arrived and bunnies were hopping around everywhere when we pulled in through the check in station - how neat!  This trip was ALL about the armadillos at the campsi...