Aiken State Park | CAMPGROUND REVIEW | South Carolina Parks - (Special Report)

New YouTube video! 🎥 "Black Friday" weekend gave us a chance to sleep off our Thanksgiving turkey-overdose over at Aiken State Park!  We spent a beautiful fall Saturday doing a thorough review of one of South Carolina's original state parks, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.  Join us as we show you this lush, wooded remote camping destination that happens to be a stone's throw away from our home! (well, maybe two or three stone-throws away, but close enough...)

 

Mission 028 - Springfield CoE Campground | UPSTATE SC RV CAMPING | Anderson, SC

Is it possible to get a great campsite at the last minute? YES! A scheduling boo-boo caused us to lose a site we had booked elsewhere, but we lucked into finding an open spot at Springfield Corps of Engineers Campground for the weekend. Booked on a Monday, and camping there the following Friday! Springfield sits on the shores of Lake Hartwell near Anderson, SC, and is a great spot for boaters, skiers and fisher-people… none of which we did! So what DID we do? Well, watch the video!

Mission 020 - Petersburg Corps of Engineers Campground

Our tour of Lake Thurmond’s camping spots continues! Petersburg Campground is our first experience at a Corps of Engineers campground, and how nice it turned out to be! Join us as we spend a weekend discovering how well the Army engineers maintain this facility, and seeing more of Thurmond Dam than we ordinarily do. We also take a lovely boat ride around the lake, soaking up some desperately-needed lake breezes! 

Mission 017 - Baker Creek State Park | RV CAMPING | Lake Strom Thurmond

Thanks to the COVID-19 scare ruining our (and most everybody's) longer-distance travels this spring, it seems our camping "theme" of 2020 is turning into a tour of they myriad parks and campgrounds in a fifty-mile radius of our house!  In this video, we visit Baker Creek State Park, another of the many RV camping spots up and down the Savannah River. Come along and see what we discovered at this quiet little boating and biking haven on the South Carolina side of Lake Thurmond... not that we had the chance to do either of those things this particular weekend...

RV SETUP TUTORIAL | How to Connect to Campsite Water 💦 - (Special Report)

We can't travel, but we can still make videos! While we’re all being victimized by the “COVID Clamp-Down,” we can use this down-time to learn a thing or two about the camping process… right? Take water, for instance. You’re newly-arrived at your campsite - the first thing to do after unhitching is to start hooking up to utilities (assuming you’re not dry-camping, that is). If you’re “glamping,” connecting to water and power is something you’ll want to learn how to do pretty quickly, and in this video, we’ll show you the process we follow and the products we use to get fresh water into the Aluminum Falcon.