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...

Huntington Beach State Park, SC; February 16-19, 2024 Site #127 Our camping itch was strong to get out by the time this trip came around.  It’s been since New Year’s since we camped and even longer for Rachel, so we *really* needed this trip.   Got the hammocks set up in a grove around the campfire again - best practice if you can do it! This is my happy place! Huntington Beach never disappoints and I would have to say that this is probably my favorite site to date.  While there are others we *could* (and will) do again, this was my favorite.   The girls had an early release day and we took advantage of leaving as soon as they got off the bus.  It’s only an hour and a half to HBSP, so we got there with lots of time to get set up, hit the gift shop, and brave making smash burgers merely sites down from where a raccoon stole our entire dinner pre-cooking when last we were here!  (We were successful this time, but those raccoons were on the Blackstone EVERY ni...