Huntington Beach State Park-South Carolina

K- Nov. 24, 2013.  Huntington Beach State Park,site #114.  How appropriate, the road we lived on!(Rte.114)

Quite the chilly morning we woke up to at Merchant Mill Pond SP, near Sunbury, NC.  No ice on the camper, but there should have been.  Beautiful sun and very windy.

We love taking the slower roads if we can and decided to do Rte. 17 all the way to Charleston, SC.  That was the plan if it worked.  For the most part it was great.  We had to do 340 miles which never sounds like a lot, but factoring in stop lights, slower speeds, it takes a long time.  But all of that is fine which was why, we quit at 4:30 and found a campground otherwise we would have have another hour plus to find the cheap way out in a forest service cg.  near Charleston.

The interesting thing about the state roads is seeing the little towns or larger towns you go through. The architecture is incredible and quaint and just like what we see at home.  The disturbing thing is for example, go through a small town like Newport, NH and there is a closed up Walmart and your head does a bit of a swivel (like why did that happen), and then you drive another mile down the road and there is a brand new SUPER CENTER. What happens to the big old building that they just built probably 2 years ago. This is not the first time we have seen this happen.

Tom and I were talking about it and we love the small hardware stores.  We love going to Edmunds in Henniker.  They have everything and great people to help.  We use the big stores a lot especially when we travel because they are easy to find, and we can park the camper easily, however, we both made a pact to try and find the smaller places to shop. We will keep you posted on that one!  The way we travel in out of the way places that is typically what we do.

Here is question?  Collard greens are a big deal here.  People sell them out of their yards. Does anyone know how to cook them? And, Tom K.,  they are not meat!!!

We are hearing about bad and windy weather at home with lots of power outages, hope everyone is ok.

Not the most newsy, but more just thinking about what America is all about.  Also, they are still harvesting cotton.