Start of 2009 Summer Travels

The tenative departure date is 04/27/09 Monday and the first stop will be Ft. McAllister, Ga.

Frost

We had frost this morning here at Down By The River.

Labor Day 2008

I have found where all the old people go that leave Z-Hills and surrounding areas in the summer time, we are staying at a campground called Down by the River in Pinola, NC, we will stay here thru October and will probable come back here next year. (kinda like the other old people).

We are under 2 miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway, and some good hiking trails, the Linville River borders one side of the campground and the Pisgah National Forest is on the other side of the Parkway. Grandfather Mountain is less than 10 miles North and Linville Falls less than 7 miles South.

It is a lot cooler here than other places.

The remnants of Fay rain on us for 3 days, the first night it rained 8+ inches and the Linville Rivers originates around Grandfather Mountain, got pretty high and came close to running over into the campground.

Today there is a covered dish dinner at the club house for Labor Day that we will attend.

Guess there won't be much more to add to the Meanderings Blog, looks like we have stopped wandering very far.

Down By The River, Pineola, NC

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Arrived Monday around noon the campground in flat, well manicured, and nice, if you notice in the pictures the nice cement interior roads and pads, some family member owns a cement plant.

Went up the Blue Ridge Parkway as far as milepost 294 we are about 2 miles from the Parkway in Pineola at milepost 310.

Tuesday we went to Linville Falls and walked the trails, about milepost 320.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 a week has gone bye. The Linville River runs along the edge of the campground so you can put your toy boats in and go 20 miles down stream and watch them go over the falls. I think it acquires more water somewhere between here and there, because if you look at the picture of the falls it is hard to spot the boat going over..

Monday, August 11,2008 We will be here until the end of October.

Breaks Interstate Park, Breaks, VA

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Monday arrived a little before noon, it took us a while to get settled into a site after trying out a few, I had to disconnect and reconnect the truck to get out of one of them, another first, but no dents or scratches. If I had had my chainsaw.....it would have been easier.

Tuesday the trails, overlooks and interior roads are superb. The waitress at the lodge was from Haysi, VA about 8 miles down the crooked road, we asked if they had a shopping center, she replied "we ain't got a shopping center, but we got a Dollar General". My kind of place.

Thursday today we went to lunch at the Road Kill Kafa down the road from Breaks,VA and of course I had to have the Road Kill Burger ------ the owner assured me that it wasn't coon or possum...whatever it was it was good.

Littcarr Campground, Littcarr, KY

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We arrived here on Monday the 14th and this is a very very nice Core park a 9 ½ out of 10 on Carr Creek Lake, KY.
Tuesday we went to check out Kingdom Come State Park as a potential place to go next, we went down some of the best country roads in Eastern Kentucky going the back way 160 and Little Shepherd Trail We decided not to go there next, as of now we decided on Breaks Interstate Park close to Breaks Va.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 we rode to Hazard, Ky this morning didn’t see any of the Dukes
Friday, July 18, 2008 for a more descriptive detail of things see Buddy & Patsy's blog www.gopherstrails.blogspot.com

Warriors Path State Park, Kingsport, TN

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There were few sites to choose from when we (the A's & the B's) arrived Monday morning, but we managed to fit in a couple that were left. We toured downtown Kingsport by foot and truck and ate a good restaurant called 12 Bones.

Wednesday we went to Natural Tunnel SP in TN, rode the ski lift up and down and it made for an easy trip, the park was very nice & extra neat but decided the sites were to small for our rigs.

Thursday it rained.