We stopped to buy our fuel for the stove which means
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.65 cents worth of gas! |
We have been having quite a time finding campgrounds that allow tents. Or riffraff as I like to call tents. We searched all over and finally found a County owned park that had 2 tent sites. And just in the right spot! We checked into the office and they had a neat education center with a lot of info and displays on local flora and animals. They been had a treetop swinging bridges where you could
observe animals.
Hap had fun trying to figure out the "Sunshine Recorder". We set up our tent and headed for the
showers. It's a really nice area and well cared for. I especially loved the showers! For dinner we fixed a noodle dinner with peas and extra chicken. Now that's more like it. The only downside of today was we "lost" our dessert Payday. Not sure what happened to it. I know it was in the dessert pocket on the bike..... Wait..... You don't know about the bicycle dessert pocket......👏
We had a great nights sleep. We had asked the ranger about a breakfast place close and he
recommended a place about 3 miles away. Perfect! We headed out about 10 am sans coffee. If you
have been reading the blog you probably already know about the ten mile coffee rule so I won't
explain it again. Luckily the Ranger was right in the distance or we might have had a problem! The only comment about breakfast is it was food and we ate. Not so good. But we were good to go!
We started out on some 2 lane low traffic roads and life was good. Although the wind was from the NW about 20 mph. Guess which way we are going? But Headwind Hap wouldn't have it any other way! We ended up on a four lane very busy highway going over a 2 mile bridge. Luckily most of the
traffic moved to the open lane and went on with their day. But there is always that one! After the bridge it was time for an attitude adjustment so we stopped at Subway. Whew!
After lunch we did a map check, changed our route and found some quieter roads. I always wonder if people appreciate us going 20 miles out of our way so they don't have to change lanes. Aw well. It's
all good as long as we got here.
We arrived at the KOA in Lumberton NC around 3p, set up camp and headed to the shower and laundry. Since we were doing laundry we pushed the bike along with us. All of a sudden big rain drops fell on our heads. Just as we arrived at the shower the skies opened up. I opened the door and Hap pushed the bike in. We made it just as the duck drowner came down. Wow what a storm! Thank you Lord. Once again he provided just what we needed at just the right time. When we came out of the shower house the sun was out! Haha........ We went to the laundry, got that done and headed back
to cook our dinner. Once again a noodle dinner, with green beans and chicken. Oh and I forgot to mention we found the missing Payday! Woo hoo!!
Hap found some shuffle board stuff, so we went over to learn another new game. It was fun, and we were still speaking when we got done. Let's see the score was Hap (2), Diane (1). But who's counting. I'll get him next time! After that rigourous game we headed to bed, tried to watch a movie but not sure if we saw the whole thing or not! Good nite Irene!
