RV Resort at Carolina Crossroads in Roanoke Rapids,NC

RV Resort at Carolina Crossroads

We left Wilmington, NC @ 10:15 this morning and arrived here at 2:00. We are in Roanoke Rapids, NC. We are staying at the RV Resort at Carolina Crossroads campground. We decided not to try to go to the KOA by Tom's because it would be between 6 and 7 before we got there and we don't like to drive that late. We set up then went into town and ate a very early dinner. We then went to Walmart and got some groceries and came back to the campground. This campground is the first treeless campground that we have stayed in. We just worked on the computer or watched TV for the rest of the evening.

Wilmington KOA in Wilmington, NC

Wilmington KOA campground

Wilmington KOA campground

Kite surfer at Wrightsville Beach

Kite surfer

Kite surfer

Kite Surfer

Kite Surfer

Judy & Mike at a windy Wrightsville Beach

Judy at Wrightsville Beach

Wrightsville Beach

Mike at Wrightsville Beach

Mike at other end of Wrightsville Beach (nice day)

other end of Wrightsville Beach

Other end of Wrightsville Beach

Georgie, Dave and Judy

We left Florence, SC around 11:00AM and arrived at Wilmington KOA at 2:00PM. We are here in Wilmington to visit Georgie and Dave Bramley, retired teachers from Pittsford. We set up and had lunch. Mike spent time scrubbing the front of the RV to get rid of all the bugs and bug juice. We took a drive out to Wrightsville Beach island, then we went and had supper at Blue Water, which is right on the inter-coastal. On Monday we went back to the beach and walked it for a while. It was a little chilly and very windy. We stopped and watched a couple of guys kite surfing. It is so neat to watch them zoom over the water and then jump a wave and go way up in the air. We went over to Georgie's later in the afternoon. It was great seeing Georgie and Dave and their house is great. I had heard a lot about it while they were building it 5 years ago. We had a pleasent evening. Tues. Mike and I went back to the beach because it was sunny and 83 degrees. We were there for 3 hours. Can you tell we love the beach!! We went home and got ready to go out to eat with Georgie and Dave. They came to the RV Park to see our house on wheels and then we went out to eat seafood. Wed. Mike and I got to see where Georgie teaches at UNC at Wilmington. The education building is beautiful. She had to go to a meeting so Mike and I went back to the beach. It was sunny but very very windy. We did sit there for 2 hours but near the end, I was dressed and wrapped in my towel because it was chilly. We went home and got changed and went back to Georgie and Dave's house for dinner. We had a "low country shrimp boil" dinner. It had potatoes, corn on the cob, sausage, and shrimp. It was very good. When we left we said good bye because we are leaving on the next day, 3/24.

Florence RV Resort in Florence, SC

Our site at Florence RV Resort - Florence, SC

Our site at Florence RV Resort

We got to Florence RV Resort in Florence, SC around 3:30. We had driven over 300 miles today. It was the most miles we have done in one day this whole trip. We set up the RV and then drove to a Long Horn Steak House (Mike's favorite) for dinner. After we ate we had to find a grocery story because we were all out of soda. We were told to go to the Piggly Wiggly; what a funny name for a grocery store! When we got back home, Mike watched basketball and I watched some TV programs on Hulu.com on the computer.

We are in Dahlonega, GA.

Johnny and Jane's home

Johnny & Jane's guest house - we stayed here

Mike, Jane, Johnny - front of their home

River down in front of their home

My cousin Johnny holding Jane's horse, Jesse

Judy with Martin the donkey

We left for my cousin's, on Wed. 3/16. John and Jane live north of Atlanta in a place called Dahlonega. They live way out in the country and up a mountain. Their home is in a gorgeous setting. Jane has a horse and it is kept in a pasture with the neighbor's 2 horses and 1 donkey right below their house. There is a river that runs through their neighbor's property and people pay to fly fish for rainbow trout. We walked the river and were driven all around the property, so beautiful. We went back to Donna's on Fri. and on Sat. 3/19 we went and got our RV out of storage and drove to Florence, SC.

Visiting a friend in Fayetteville, GA

RV storage at Atlanta South RV Resort in McDonough, GA

Donna Sullivan's home in Fayetteville, GA


Donna and Judy



Donna and Mike

Yesterday, 3/12, we left Cordele and headed for McDonough, GA. We are going to store the RV at Atlanta South RV Resort and then drive our car over to Fayetteville to visit and stay with a good friend who used to live up in Pittsford, Donna Sullivan. We got to her house by following the directions of our GPS. We had lost faith in our GPS because when we were driving to MCDonough the GPS gave us different directions to find the RV Resort from our Woodall Campground book. We decided to follow the GPS directions and ended up on a dirt road that sort of ended. Lucky for us there was a church that was being built and their driveway was there so we drove up the driveway hoping to turn around in the parking lot but the parking lot was under construction. We noticed there was a housing track with a road on the other side of the parking lot so we took it and luckily it got us back on the right road and we found the RV Resort. We stored our RV. We packed our car with stuff enough for a week. We arrived at Donna's around 4:00, sat around and talked, then went out to dinner. We spent 4 days visiting with Donna. On Monday Mike took our car to the dealers because our emissions light had been on since the Keys. On Wed. we were heading for my cousin's home north of Atlanta. When I got up I discovered I had a UTI so we had to go to a clinic and a Dr. saw me and gave me a prescription. We left for my cousin's only 2 hours late.

Cordele, GA

Cordele KOA

We left The Villages, FL this morning at 9:30. It was 44 degrees when we got up. BRRRR!! We drove 250 miles and ended up here at Cordele, GA. We are in a KOA. All their sites are pull-thrus, which we like. We got here around 2:00, set up and then relaxed. It was a sunny day but cool. They say it is going down to 34 degrees. We got out our electric heater again. We leave tomorrow for McDonough, GA, south of Atlanta. We are storing our RV there and then driving over to a good friend's house in Fayetteville and staying with her for several days.

The Villages, Florida

Recreation Plantation RV Resort, Lady Lake, FL

Mike & Judy at Hacienda Country Club, The Villages, FL



Cousin Janet & Sam with Mike on 9th Hole of Hacienda CC

Judy in mid swing on 9th hole at Hacienda CC

We arrived at Lady Lake, FL on Sun. 3/6. We are staying at The Recreation Plantation RV Resort. We are here to see my cousin Janet and Sam, and a good friend from Pittsford who has moved down here, Jim Liebmann and a fellow bunco player also from Pittsford, Patty Cooke. They all live in The Villages. Boy what a place. Mike calls it Disney World for Seniors. There are lots and lots of golf courses and each village has a rec. center with a million and one activities and lots of swimming pools. There are 2 Town Squares where there is entertainment every night, 7 nights a week. One unique feature is that everyone has golf carts and uses them instead of cars. There is a separate path/road for them to travel on. It is so neat. We played golf twice. Toured around one day and went to the Arnold Palmer Country Club and the Nancy Lopez Country Club pro shops and did a little shopping.