Adventures including a visit to, drive thru and/or stay in North Carolina
Camping in Fancy Gap, Virginia Less than a mile from the Blue Ridge, MP 199.4 entrance. We’re definitely in the mountains. At 2,914′, it got Cold at night, below freezing the first night! And Fancy Gap KOA, besides providing us with Eclipse sunglasses, provided a Weather Rock. It was quite Read more…
Camping near Asheville, North Carolina First of 3 stops moving north, adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway, through western North Carolina and Virginia. Revisits to 3 National Park sites (to see new-to-us sites): Day trip visit to 1 new National Park Site: No, we did not make it to the Read more…
Camping near Great Smoky Mountains National Park For our first time camping in Tennessee (State #38), we were less than 1/2 mile from the Cades Cove entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for 8 nights. We thought “the shoulder season” would be a good time to visit America’s most Read more…
Two Short Stops After one last stop in North Carolina, enroute to Myrtle Beach: Visit to 1 new National Park Site: We had 3 nights in Myrtle Beach, where we enjoyed time visiting friends in the area: We each had some personal time with our respective friends, we had a Read more…
Who Knew? New Bern was the 1st capitol of NC! We learned this when we googled New Bern the day before arriving! We’d planned a short, 3-night stop here, so we could do a day trip to Cape Lookout. It was also time for The Beast’s 95K oil change/tire rotation. Read more…
First visit to North Carolina! We’ve driven through a few times, but this is our 49th State to “really” visit together, our 34th state to camp in! And where did we start? In Rodanthe on Hatteras Island, in the middle of the Outer Banks. We could watch the sunrise over Read more…