This road trip was a halfhearted attempt at being a snowbird and to avoid some of the winter weather that North Carolina encountered this year. We headed south down I-95. What a crappy road. For the first night we stayed at Crooked River State Park in St. Mary’s, GA. This state park was a stones throw from the Florida state line. One of the takeaways from our RV travels to date is that Georgia has first class state parks.

Crooked River State Park, GA

Crooked River State Park Site 54

The next day we set off for Fort Wilderness located at the happiest place on earth (not really, too expensive to be the happiest place on earth), but it is still kind of fun no matter how old you are. We landed spot 306 in Fort Wilderness and it was a tight little back in site. We spent three nights at Fort Wilderness and followed that up with four nights at the KOA Orlando Southwest in the Davenport area.  We have been to Disney many times, but this is the first time we had a “magical moment”. We were waiting at the campground bus stop to head out front to grab a bus to Epcot. A very hospitable Disney employee named Chris picked us up in a Disney van and took us from Fort Wilderness to Epcot.

Fort Wilderness site 306 – nice location, a little tight backing in

Site 306

Site 306, home for a few days

Nerak having a beer at City Works

Nerak at Epcot

New for us to see – the Disney Skyliner – will the buses be gone someday?

Favorite spot in Epcot – England for Guinness and Fish & Chips

While in the Orlando area, we visited with some of our favorite relatives and had a very nice stay (except for that annoying little dog, I think its name was Brutus). Got turned on to Wild Fork, which is really good for RV’ers. Our favorite relatives took us out for a nice lunch at Yeoman’s Cask & Lion located at the Promenade at Sunset Walk. It is easy to say that Orlando doesn’t lack much. If it exists, it is probably somewhere in Orlando.

KOA Orlando SW – Davenport FL – site 19

Selfie in Disney Springs

We then headed North up 27 through Gainesville and Lake City and jumped on I-10 west. We are headed to the southwest corner of Georgia, north of Tallahassee. We landed in campsite #10 in Seminole State Park, GA. This is another really fine Georgia State Park that is very clean and extremely well maintained. All of the staff we encountered from our check in, to our daily walks, was very friendly and welcoming. The only thing lacking is sewer hookups, but the dump station was centrally located and convenient. We stayed for seven days at a great weekly rate. We had nothing but great views and pretty nice weather for January.

Seminole State Park GA

Seminole State Park Check In

Site 10 – Large pull thru – great views

Not crowded at all for January

Nice cabins

Need the poop tank – no sewer connection – dump station is convenient.

Nice Cool January Morning – what a nice place.

Sabacola

It was time to move on and begin the slow migration north. We took the back roads from Seminole State Park, across South Georgia, to Savannah. Our next stop was CreekFire Resort, right off of I-95 in Savannah. We were assigned gravel pull through site number 47. We really liked it. Site 47 was kind of in the middle of the resort and a very nice location to sit out and watch the hubbub of the resort.

Creek Fire Resort – Pull Thru Gravel – site 47

Creek Fire Resort – Lake House Bar & Grill

Effective communications – how you mandate

We took the shuttle from the resort to downtown Savannah. We did the full cycle of the trolley tour and then jumped off and walked quite a bit. Savannah is very walkable city. It is oozing history. We asked our shuttle driver where a good place to eat lunch and she recommended Dubs down on the waterfront. Lunch at Dubs was excellent, and for a tourist area, very reasonable.

Nerak at the Savannah Waterfront

Love all that repurposed ballast

City Exchange Fire Bell replica

Historic steps

Really steep historic steps

Savannah Waterfront history

Lunch at Dubs on the waterfront

….and desert at Leopold’s – really good Hot Fudge Sundae

Nerak and a replica of the Forest Gump bench

We picked a pretty windy and cold day to drive out to Fort Pulaski and Tybee Island. We have been to a few forts in out travels, but Fort Pulaski is impressive.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort Pulaski on a cold January day

Fort Pulaski History

Nerak at a cold and windy Fort Pulaski

….about the east coast forts

Inside Fort Pulaski

Inside the walls

Windy inside the fort

Quite a front door

View of guns up top

Took a beating in its day

Exterior of Fort facing Tybee Island

After a week in Savannah, we headed northwest to the Augusta area. We stayed at our first Army Corps of Engineers campground. There are many campgrounds in the area, but we were booked at Petersburg campground. For a very reasonable weekly rate, we were provided with a very large site that provided a great view of Strom Thurmond Lake. I know it was January, but the campground was virtually empty, and provided a great week of relaxation.

Petersburg Army Corps of Engineers campground – site 9

Very nice site 9

Out for a ride on the RAD’s