Short trip for a quick look at spring 2018

We left on March 15th .  New England snow storms have been terrible this March so we found a window between storms that was warm enough to pack.  The week before we had 18 inches of snow that pulled down our electric wire into the driveway entrance for 3 days.  The electric company took 3 days to remove it.  We could not get out of the driveway. We have a generator so we were comfortable but thank goodness for our next door neighbor, our son.  He gave a gas ride  for the generator every day.  We are rural and surrounded by stone walls on 5 acres so it is not easy to get out except through the hole in the stone wall.  The suggestions of the electric company of just going out the backyard does not work.  Also if no electricity, no water.  I do not think  people understand and because I complain about our age (now in our 70's) it does not seem to matter.  I was very upset.  John and I have medical problems and emergency help could not get to us if needed because of the wire as well!  We cleared another storm's 12 inches of snow off the camper and finally left.

We traveled to Tennessee stopping at Woodstock, VA to spend the night.  It was cold but easily comfortable.  John had an extra blanket.  We visited TN friends and de-winterized the RV finding the pump did not work.  Our friends knew where to call to buy a new pump & John & Bob put the new pump in.  Off we went on our way after 3 days. It was warm in TN until the week we got there.  We must have brought the cold weather. 

We traveled over mountains on Route 26 to SC and visited other friends. We stayed at Hunting Beach State Park in Murrell's Inlet right on the ocean.  It was also cold and windy there and very expensive.  We paid $18 for a SC State Park on the way east from TN but arriving on the coast it was $53 a night.  What a difference March makes.  Snowbirds RVs are headed north again! 

We left after viewing houses where our friends live.  We want to move to warmer weather and they live in a 55+ community and love it.  We found a rental but it was just, just rented.  I liked the house so if that does not work out they will let us rent it.  It was backed to a golf course and a block from the communal pool--perfect and a small house.  I want to downsize!

Georgia was our next stop.  It was a little warmer but still not warm until we stayed at Seminole State Park in SW GA on the FL & AL corner boarder.  There I stayed out in the sun beside the lake reading and received sun burn on my nose that peeled!  I wanted out of the van, or my back did, so we did not head further west or south.  I had seen redbud, pear, daffs, dogwood all in bloom, green grass, wildflowers, etc. so we headed north. 


The lake at FDR State Park and below John the next day unhooking the electrical

We stopped at TD Roosevelt State Park and the Little White House in Warm Springs where FDR died.  That was very interesting and completed FDR's life for us.  We have visited where he was born in NY, where he contacted Polio in Canada and where he died in GA.  He was our longest presidential leader, elected 4 terms.  After that it was changed to just 2 terms.  Now history has pictures in my mind.


Our deck after an inch or so.  It looks lovely but really--APRIL!
Below can you see the covered B??

John in his usual place with Emma!

Back we came and arrived on Easter night quite late.  You can always tell when you arrive in Pa to CT.  The roads are terrible-teeth and RV jarring!  The house was warm thanks to a daughter who turned up our heat.  On Monday it snowed again about 8 inches.  It also snowed in CT during the time we were traveling.  In April we usually do not winterize again but this year, yes!  What a spring!!??!!