The trip begins!

OK, so the trip was supposed to begin yesterday.  Sunday night I decided to put my route into Mapquest just in case I had problems with the GPS.  While looking at the maps I noticed that I was adding a little more than 400 miles to my trip by going to Indian Spring State Park, GA and Carolina Landing 1000 Trails campground.  Whoa!  I didn't want to be doing that.  The trip was going to be long enough already.  And the trip from Carolina Landing to FT Bragg brought me south and than east to go north.  It was definitely the great circle route.

I did some quick research and discovered a Resorts Preferred International (RPI) park in SC that was about 70% of the way to FT Bragg.  I decided to give that park a try since we have an RPI membership with our 1000 Trails membership.  So instead of leaving Monday I got on the road Tuesday at 0550.  The trip was uneventful until the end.  Gabby (our GPS) took me down a dirt road and like a fool I went along thinking "isn't technology a wonderful thing?"  Two miles later the road was a dead end and of course I was towing the Pumpkin (our Honda Element) so I can't just do a three point turn.  Get out, on hook the Element, back it off to the side, three point turn (ok, more like an 11 point turn) the RV, hook up the Element and get going again.  Turns out I went about 10 miles out of the way.  Oh well, the point of this trip is to learn lessons for when I move to Norfolk so that goal was achieved early :-)

Now I find myself at The Oaks at Point South RV park.  Seems like a nice enough park but right now a torrential rain is moving through so I am not doing much exploring.

On the way up I stopped at the Camping World in Savannah, GA.  Camping World is to RVers as Starbucks is to yuppies.  Can't pass one up if you see it.  

Now that we have finally got the RV out of FL we can proudly display a state map with the states that we have visited colored-in.  Only three states but it is better than one!