Most of the time, I do errands while Breeze is back at the campsite because it’s way easier to negotiate shopping and parking lots with just a car. Sometimes, though, it makes more sense to stop at a store on the way from one campground to another. Last week was one of those times: I was picking up a new AT&T hotspot at a Best Buy in Augusta, Georgia, which was about 1/3 of the way to my new campground. Bella and Breeze got to hang out under one of the two little trees in this massive parking lot while…
Month: April 2019
Update: Apr 17, 2019
This week was all about light and color and staying in one place for seven days. I landed at a Corps of Engineers park on Lake Thurmond, which spans the border of Georgia and South Carolina. I camped in South Carolina but all my errands were done in Georgia this week! The lake had me at sunset the first night I was here. Big sky, reflections, clouds, all the stuff I love. The most enjoyable feature of my campsite was that I could launch my kayak from the water just below me. This is the view from my trailer… ……
Spring Greens
Today’s post is brought to you by the color GREEN. It’s one of my favorite colors: teal, turquoise, turquoise, lime, emerald, seafoam, sage, mint. There’s no shade of green that I can’t love. But, and this is the point of my post, nothing says green like the showy early leaves of Spring. I’ve been camping in forests the last few weeks and I walk around every day with my mouth hung open at the explosion of green that surrounds me. I grew up in LA, people, and spring was NEVER like this. As my Brit friend would say, I’m gobsmacked…
Sunday Serenity: Light
Light can mean so many things: lighten your load, lighten up, see the light, light-headed, light-hearted, light a fire under someone, and so on. It wasn’t till I spent time in the South that I realized that the light has another meaning: a lush, soft illumination that feels distinctly Southern. Maybe it’s the moisture in the air, or the fact there there is so much water everywhere: lakes, rivers, streams, and that stuff that falls from the sky. A lot. (As I write this, I’m in the middle of an afternoon-long tornado watch, so rain is on my mind.) Reflections…
Update: April 10, 2019
I’m getting better at staying in one place for a while; this past week featured exactly one move. I spent a heavenly five nights at Watauga, one of my personal happy places on this earth, and it did not disappoint. The campground sits on the river between the Watauga Dam and the Wilbur Dam, so the water level depends on what the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) needs as far as power generation goes. This visit, they apparently needed a lot, and the signal that the water was going to be released from the upstream dam sounded almost every day. On…