Category: Trailer Life

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…

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… ……

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…

I’ve been a driving fool the past week, making a 900-mile round trip just to attend a women writers’ retreat at the northwest end of Virginia. From Huntsville to Knoxville and the very nice TVA campground at Melton Hill Dam… …to a pull-through site at Hungry Mother State Park, where I had my visit last fall cut short by Hurricane Florence… …to a crazy busy privately-owned RV park that was hosting some kind of extended family gathering for the weekend. Let’s just say their gathering and our retreat were about 180 degrees of difference! I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend spent…