Feb 1, 2015. Today was a put on the miles day. We left Carlisle, Pennsylvania at 7:00 a.m. and with the exception of a gas stop and two doggie rest stops we drove until 4:30 p.m. (Approximately 450 miles and 40 degrees different in temperature)
We are settled in at the Leamon Lake Campground in Wilson, N.C. (30 miles north of Wilmington).
We chose this campground simply because it’s only 2 miles off the highway and we were ready to stop.
Reason #9 Why I love RV-ing. The Characters you meet. We pull up to the campground office and are greeted at the door by “Ollie”, with a big ole southern “come on in”. We walk in and there’s a half dozen well-worn recliners in a semi-circle and in the center of the room is an old wood table with four chairs. “Stan” all decked out in his oldest coveralls, is sitting down at the table. He invites us to come and join him. These guys are the down south good ole boy versions of Laurel and Hardy. They dickered back and forth so much checking us in that it’s a wonder they finally decided on a site for us. Then they both had to come show us the way to our site. They get into a old rusty, dilapidated mini van and tell us to follow. Most campgrounds have someone driving a golf cart lead you to your site. This is funny, they are funny. Good thing they showed us the way because there is so much “junk” that it would have been impossible to find it on our own. This is lawn ornament heaven!
We drive by a woman shoveling something into buckets. There is a sign that says “Dog Poop Disposal Area”. She is shoveling dog poop and carrying it over to her garden. We know this because she is our neighbor for the night. I never heard of using dog poop for fertilizer.
Lake Leamon is beautiful, Mother Nature has her act together here. The people here are different, but couldn’t be nicer, another adventure. Next Stop … Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, S.C.