Home to Anderson, SC -- April 10 - 15, 2023

Springfield Campground, Anderson, SC

April 10-15, 2023

To catch up, we did take a trip to New Bern in April 2022 for a Mid-Atlantic Montana rally.  We stayed at the KOA, which was very nice and had a beautiful view of the river.  Vickie took us on a downtown tour and a tour of the firehouse.  The ladies went to lunch, and Vickie and I went on the Spring Home Show of some of the old houses in New Bern.  It was a lot of fun and good to see friends again!

Now we're back on the road again for a 'nearby' trip, meaning we will be within a day's drive of home.  We left home on Monday, April 10 with our granddaughter Noelle (her mom and siblings were going on a church mission trip to New York City and her dad was working, so we got to have her for a few days).  John had decided not to take the motorcycle because we probably wouldn't use it.  We have been using it mostly to take weight off the hitch.  We got less than a mile from home and even I could tell something wasn't right.  So we turned around and put the motorcycle on the back.  By this time it was after 1:00 and we were getting hungry, so we stopped in the Cabela's parking lot and fixed lunch.  Then we were really on our way!  We arrived at Springfield Campground on Lake Hartwell near Anderson, SC in the late afternoon.  It's a CoE campground and has 50 amp and water hookups but no sewer. I was able to get site #33 for Monday-Thursday (I put a video of the view from #33 on our Roving Walkers Facebook page), but we had to move to site #23 for Friday and Saturday.  Here is site #33:

John has spent a lot of the time fixing things.  Before we left I cleaned the inside of the 5th wheel.  After I got done with the toilet I walked back in the bathroom and there was water at the base.  He spent the rest of the morning, the afternoon, and an hour the day before we left fixing it.  First he checked the seal and that wasn't it.  He saw water dripping near the valve so replaced the supply hose and and put in a shutoff valve but that didn't work.  So he replaced the water control valve and that worked!  Also before we left he replaced the tape on the underbelly because it was coming loose.  Since we've been at the campground it seems like he's spent all his time repairing things.  We turned on the front air conditioner and it didn't work.  We had run it for several hours while we were getting ready to go and it worked fine.  So we have a start/run capacitor waiting for us at our next stop.  Hopefully that will work.  He's also replaced the shower drain seal with a heavy duty one because it was broken and leaking.  He's made several trips to the dump station with grey water in the tote.  He's replaced the tail lights with LED ones.  He's been one busy guy!

We had a lot of fun with 11 year old Noelle.  We made cookies and played games, we made a bag for her hairbrush, toothbrush and accessories and played games, and we played games!  She catches on really fast to the games and beats us a lot of the time.  She's a sweetie!

On Friday we met Noelle's dad in Greenville to get her back again.  Before we took her we had to change sites to #23.  It's a nice one too.

The weather has been nice most of the time.  In the 70s during the day and 50s at night.  It rained Friday but not as much as they said it was going to.

Sunday we move on to Augusta, GA.  It's nice to get on the road again.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth".

Genesis 1:1