We were in
North Carolina for around a week, which was long enough to get to meet my
facebook friend and steadfast cancer support buddy, Lea.
She was the
person I leaned on the most besides family when I was going through those scary
times. It was her I shared the news with
that Christmas Eve that the doctors had been successful and I was cancer free.
Until our
visit to NC Lea and I had never met face to face. It was a joyous occasion for me. We had a wonderful meal at Cracker Barrel
halfway between our two base locations.
Our home
base was at the Hagan Stone City Park in Pleasant Garden, NC. The campground was
a basic simple campground.
Our first
night there we were told to set up wherever there was not an orange cone and we
would be fine to stay for several days.
So we did just that, in a nice level graveled spot that was plenty big
enough for our long fifth wheel as well as an individual water spigot. We got completely set up and settled in for
the night.
The first
thing the next morning the staff had changed their mind and told us that
despite the fact there were no reserved signs or cones we had to move because there
were others who had plans for our site.
They never used the words, “reservation” when we were discussing moving.
The staff carefully worded their statements to not include the word
reservation. Instead they said things
like “We have someone else who wants this spot.”
We try not to rock boats with anyone, so we
moved to the campsite they told us we needed to move to. A short, sloped, grassy/muddy spot that was
so short we had to park our truck in the middle of a grassy area across the
road from our camper. Our water spigot
was a shared one, the park did not provide a splitter connector either. Luckily, we had one.
You can see by the first photo on this post how close our trailer was to the road in the park, where the dirt is showing is the road.
Having to
move was not a big problem, but it did irritate us that we had been told
we could park there because it was not reserved and the people who “wanted”
that site did not come in for five days. When they did it was a group of
tent campers on an rv site, that blocked paths around their campsite with signs
you were not to walk on the park paths while they were there.
If there
hadn’t been two LARGE designated tent site camping areas we could have understood better tents with no rvs being in the rv area.. In fact that weekend the tent
campgrounds were fairly empty, while they were turning away rvs due to the
large number of tents on the rv sites.
We were told
by permanent residents there that what happened to us had happened before
because that group tent campers were locals that were friends with the staff.
If they had
reservations, that is fine, but why were they not in the tent area that was
just one loop over either direction? Why
on rv sites?
Other than
that our visit at the campground was pleasant, our very close neighbors were
friendly and helpful, we had some charming evenings with them.
We also
enjoyed walking the nature trails in the campground and seeing the marathon
runners.
Other than
taking long walks in the park and seeing Lea we just chilled in this area
without visiting any local sites.
We would
stay there again, but we would make certain that we had a guaranteed reserved
site.
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