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Campground review: Charleston/Mt. Pleasant KOA

It’s Spring Break time, and we took the opportunity to visit a new campground in our home state of South Carolina, the Charleston/Mt. Pleasant KOA. Charleston is just a few hours away from Greenville, making it a great long weekend getaway for us.

We’ve stayed at several KOA campgrounds around the Southeast, and the Charleston/Mt. Pleasant KOA Holiday ranks up there as one of our all time favorites! We were late getting out of town on our departure day, putting our arrival after dark closer to 9 p.m. The front office was kind enough to coordinate our arrival time, and make sure a host was available to guide us to our spot, despite the late hour.

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Ocean Lakes Family Campground Travel Review

Have you ever traveled to Ocean Lakes Family Campground in Myrtle Beach, SC? Some families have been visiting this iconic resort since it opened in the 1970s. Rest assured, many updates have taken place since it first opened, and now the sprawling, beachfront property has become one of the most well-known and most-visited along the Grand Strand!

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Where are You Camping in 2021?

It’s still February, but we’ve been planning our 2021 camping season for several months now! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic still gripping our area, as well as just scheduling conflicts (kids and their activities, amIright?!), we’re somewhat limited geographically in terms of how far we can travel this year.

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Holiday Gift Ideas for RV Campers

Holiday Gift Ideas for RV Campers

The holiday season is in full swing! I don’t know about you, but I love trying to think about gifts that the recipient might really love. Sure, it’s easy to just give someone a gift card and call it a day, but the joy on someone’s face when they open up a gift that really had thought and meaning behind it is just priceless!

It helps to think of the person’s interests and hobbies as a jumping off point for holiday gift giving ideas. Since this is a blog about RV camping and travels, I wanted to put together a wish list of things RV camping enthusiasts might love!

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Campground Review: Anchor Down RV Resort

Anchor Down RV Resort

It took us over a year to finally secure a spot at the coveted Anchor Down RV Resort in Dandridge, TN, and we can tell you……it was definitely worth the wait!

This lakeside RV resort has only been open for seven years, but it’s already built up a devoted following. Besides having Douglas Lake and the Smoky Mountains as your backdrop, you’re only a hop, skip and a jump from all of the Eastern Tennessee attractions, such as The Island in Pigeon Forge, Dollywood, Gatlinburg and Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

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Waterfront Camping on Lake Keowee at Mile Creek Park

Lake Keowee camping

Living in Greenville, S.C., we are blessed to be close to some amazing lakes. In about an hour, you can be waterside at several of the picturesque lakes Upstate South Carolina has to offer.

We recently spent a weekend camping at Mile Creek Park in Pickens County, on beautiful Lake Keowee. We were able to enjoy lakefront living in our camper for about $20 per night. Incredible!

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Camp Site Review: Mama Gertie’s Hideaway Campground near Asheville, NC

Mama Gertie's Hideaway Campground
Mama Gertie's Hideaway Campground

Since the COVID-19 pandemic has affected many of our travel plans this season (along with everyone else!), we’ve been taking the opportunity to explore some campgrounds close to home that we’ve never visited before.

This summer, we added Mama Gertie’s Hideaway Campground in Swannanoa, N.C., just a few minutes east of Asheville. This hidden gem of a campground in the western mountains of North Carolina provided a much needed long weekend getaway and respite from summer’s heat and humidity!

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Camp Site Review: Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, SC

Huntington Beach State Park, SC

We returned recently from our first visit to Huntington Beach State Park, located in Murrells Inlet, S.C., conveniently situated south of busy Myrtle Beach and close to Litchfield and Pawleys Island beaches along the Grand Strand.

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Has your camping trip been delayed due to COVID-19?

The spread of the novel coronavirus across the United States and the world is like a bad movie that no one wanted to watch. And yet, here we are, adjusting to our new normals: schools closed, no gatherings more than 10 people, social distancing from others of at least six feet, restaurants, parks and other attractions shuttered until further notice.

Here in South Carolina, our governor has not enacted a statewide shelter-in-place order due to COVID-19…yet. Time will tell if that rule will take place. Until then, we are being responsible about working and schooling from home, limiting our trips to the store, and cleaning everything like our lives depend on it (which, unfortunately, it does).

While we wait to see if some of our spring and summer camping trips will be postponed or cancelled altogether, we’re doing things now to keep our “camping spirit” alive. Here’s a few things we’re doing now – and you can do, too – as we wait (sometimes patiently, sometimes not so much, if we’re being honest here) to see if we can hit the road in our camper this season:

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How to Travel Like a Local

People have said to me, “You sure do travel a lot!” And my response is, “I know, I wish I could do it more!”

One of my favorite things about traveling around with a travel trailer is that it’s like your own little condo on wheels. You can hitch up, travel to a new town, and have your own little home away from home while exploring a new place. It’s my favorite way to travel!

We recently returned from a long weekend trip to Louisville, Ky. We wanted to go see the Clemson Tigers take on the University of Louisville Cardinals, and used the road trip as a way to check Kentucky off of our camper map of states we’ve visited so far. (Nine down, 41 to go!).

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