Nomad exploring life wherever I am
Over the last week, I’ve had to change my travel plans twice because life intervened. As a vagabond without a “sticks and bricks” home base, sometimes changes can really throw a spanner into the works, as my British friends would say. Read on to see how I improvised a new schedule to meet the challenges of changes.
Wow. If you’d told me five years ago all that would happen between the day I picked up my Alto (May 2, 2016) till now, I wouldn’t have believed you. I honestly didn’t know what I was getting into back then, and I didn’t have many expectations of how things would go. I just knew I was going to live in a little trailer and drive around a lot. In the Beginning… This photo was taken about a minute after my very first tow ever (like in my whole life!), where I drove from pickup at Safari Condo to my…
One of the newest American national parks (2003), Congaree is a surprising place of wonder in the middle of South Carolina. A mix of American beech and bald cypress trees, with some switch cane plants and palms thrown into the mix, it is a truly Southern forest, protected and preserved thanks to local residents who started a campaign in the 1950s to preserve the Congaree River floodplain.
This year was my third try at getting to the Smokies, and I finally made it (two previous tries were canceled due to a hurricane and a pandemic). And, WOW, was it totally worth the wait! I could only get three nights and it wasn’t enough to do more than scratch the surface of this beautiful national park. It’s definitely on my “gotta get back here” list despite the crowds, the traffic, and the winding roads.
You know that old saying “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all?” That will explain why this review of Poinsett State Park is shorter than most reviews. The good things? It has some really lovely hiking trails. The camping sites are large and well-maintained. And it’s the closest state park to Congaree National Park, which was why we were here.