Kick's Travels: First night on the road

Saturday, March 21, 2015

First night on the road

We had decided to leave on a Sunday thinking traffic might be lighter. I had to drive the Mazda and since I don't like driving on the interstate, we took local highways once we got to Arcadia. It was heavy stop and go traffic on parts of US 27 between Avon Park and Ocala, and at one point, the brakes on Bob's truck started smoking. He kept saying we had too much weight in both the trailer and my car which was packed to the brim. He also thought there would be plenty of campgrounds along the way, but the few that we found were booked up. We did finally get lucky and found a place just over the Georgia border. It certainly wasn't much of a place, but after 9 hours on the road, it was a haven.

The next morning, we continued on highways and back roads and got to Lake Hartwell about 2:30 in the afternoon. What should have been a 12 hour drive took us 17, but at least it wasn't a white knuckle drive.

Bob did a great job of parking the trailer as close as he could get it to the deck structure that was on our lot. We had to buy it from the previous owner, but we had planned on putting up a deck anyway. Bob will need to modify it since our trailer has a different configuration than the unit that had been there.

The next morning, we woke up to a light snowfall. It looked beautiful as the flakes reflected in the lamplight. There wasn't much snow and it didn't last long, so it wasn't a problem for us.