New Year, New Travel Plans!

Hey, fellow Campers!  Jessie here again!  As the new year unfolds, we've made plans for a handful of camping trips, and we want to keep you apprised of our itinerary so you'll know what sort of "travel tales" to expect.  Here goes: 

• This coming weekend, we'll spend a little closer to home, at Aiken State Park. It's a fairly secluded state park, primarily known for canoeing on the nearby Edisto River. We won't be getting into the water, though (especially in late-January!). 
  
  
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  In February, we'll be taking the Aluminum Falcon up to Camping World of Spartanburg so the folks there can take care of a few bug-a-boos we've discovered, and get it done well in advance of our one-year warranty expiring!
  
  

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  While it technically won't be an "RV" trip, we hope to take a day-trip over to Congaree National Park down below Columbia, SC in mid-March.  It is, after all, South Carolina's only National Park, and we sort of feel obligated to patronize it - and of course, we WANT to patronize it! Since it doesn't have RV campsites, we'll let the Falcon save it's "energy" for April...
  
  
  
• ...when we'll embark on one of our biggest adventures yet! We'll spend the first week of April in St. Augustine, Florida!  We'll stay at an RV resort down there and experience all sorts of local sites, local historical attractions, and local cuisine! 

We'll provide more details as these dates approach, and more stories and pictures after the dates pass!  Stay tuned! 

Campground Review - Asheville West KOA

Asheville West KOA was our "base of operations" for our post-Christmas vacation to the NC mountains, and possibly the only local RV park to NOT end up flooded that oh-so-very rainy week! Despite the weather, and the campground undergoing some fairly extensive renovations while we were there, we were impressed! See our review!

Mission 004 (Part 2) - Biltmore Estate... IN THE RAIN!!!

Our wet-and-wooly post-Christmas vacation in the Asheville, NC region continued with our visit to the fabulous Biltmore Estate!  Of course, our luck with camping weather also continued, as seven inches of rain fell during the eighteen hours leading up to our arrival there, so Smokey's first experience at this beautiful place was far from how it should have been.  Nevertheless, we managed to spend an entire day there, both Living and Learning about the largest private residence in the United States.  See for yourself! 

Keep tabs on us in the coming weeks, too! Later in January, we'll have a video reviewing the Asheville West KOA, where we stayed for this trip, and in February, we'll finally have a "camper tour" video for you, along with a product review or two.  Stay tuned, Happy Campers!

Mission 004 (Part 1) - The North Carolina Mountains!

Sorry we've been delinquent about keeping the blog updated, but Christmas and all the associated hub-bub have kept us from being as thorough as we'd like around here. What little time that wasn't claimed by Holiday responsibilities was taken up by preparing for our first out-of-state trip in the Aluminum Falcon! Well, we've returned, and can say that we lived to tell several tales! Of course, we won't tell them here - that's what YouTube is for!

Our first video of our latest RV adventure covers our trip up the Appalachian foothills to the Asheville West KOA campground, then checking out the small towns of Sylva and Dillsboro the next day, despite a steady, heavy drizzle all day.  See for yourself!

Keep an eye out for our next video, in which we'll show you our day-long exploration of Asheville's famous Biltmore Estate, and how visiting this site can be done even with raging floodwaters working against you!

Up, up and (hopefully not) AWAY!!!

Happy Friday, Happy Campers, and an early "Merry Christmas" to all of you! We're in preparation for our post-Christmas expedition to Asheville, NC, but we have a little something to hold your interest until we get back with stories and pictures! Our newest video over on the YouTube channel is a little bit of something we put together with footage we shot while trying out our new drone last month. We had fun figuring out the first steps of getting into aerial photography... but did we crash it?

You'll have to watch to find out... 

Mission 003 (Part 2) - Can You Get Lost in the Woods in a State Park...?

The rest of our Thanksgiving weekend trip to Santee State Park wraps up with a loooong hike down the nature trail, where we found out how much some hurricane damage can change a stroll through the woods into a survival test! (okay, we exaggerate, but it WAS a heck of a workout!)

See the video here 👉 https://youtu.be/1mRPo-WMFkU

Mission 003 (Part 1) - RVing for Thanksgiving!

Hey, Campers! 

Jessie here for a change! We have successfully camped at Santee State Park! We also did the required family Thanksgiving get-together, and managed to get both done in the same trip! This "mission" actually resulted in so much activity that we couldn't fit it into just one video record... at least not one that anybody would be willing to sit through! Check out our YouTube channel for the Mission Report of our arrival at the campground, as well as our Turkey-Day pig-out at (Smokey's) mom's house on Thanksgiving Day. 

Be sure to subscribe to the channel, too, so you won't miss out on the great places Smokey and I visit and explore!