It rained gently during the night
(we had to get up to check for open windows) and the drizzle carried on until
early morning. By the time we surfaced though
it was fine again. Spent a bit of time
going over our tax returns while we had hotspot, bloody IRD‘s online service is
befuddling to say the least!!
We get underway around 11am and
pretty much take the I 40 East through Winston Salem and Greensboro until we
divert onto the US 80 towards Durham to then find Falls Lake and Rolling View
Campground. Trundling along the I 40 we saw at least six red-stickered
cars in the 40 odd miles we were on the interstate, very enthusiastic sheriffs
I guess! The other thing we have noticed
in this State is the beds of bright yellow flowers (kinda look like lillies)
planted at most of the highway junctions – they are very pretty!
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| Sunny Yellow Flowers, go North Carolina, you rock! |
We arrived at Falls Lake, where
we had booked on line and collectively agreed on site B 048 - but when we get
there Kim doesn’t like it (just like we usually have to move from the first
table we sit at in a restaurant) so we do a circuit to see what else is free
then we go back to the office to negotiate.
I relegate all responsibility, just want to get set up and enjoy, so Kim
takes up the gauntlet and gets another site for us a bit further around Loop
B. Well, it is easy to get into and it is
level, but it has no shade and it is 33C outside, so we drive back to the
office to renegotiate. This time the
office girls are onto him and provide a list of all 16 sites available in both
A and B Loops for him to check out! We finally
decide on A03 which has a very long driveway up to it and is level enough that
we can use the jacks. Man, it is hot and
I don’t offer to walk back to the office to tell them where we are now, (can’t
phone, we only have one dit) so Kim ‘walks’ up to the office and gets all our
paperwork sorted.
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| Large campsite A3 - Rolling Views, Falls Lake, NC |
I take pity on him, we pulled in
at 2.45pm and it’s now after 4pm and we only had an apple for lunch so I mix us
some cold drinks and put together a platter of cheese, gherkins and crackers etc.
and we sit outside in the shade to enjoy.
We saw a deer as we drove into the park, so there is wildlife here, hope
we see a racoon! However, there are
squirrels and fireflies galore!
As I am writing this (in word, as
we don’t have internet here) I hear a threshing about outside in the trees so
take the trusty flashlight outside to investigate – by the time I get out there
with said torch, I can’t see a blessed thing!
I will wait in anticipation!
I can now report I saw no animals
but the stars were super bright, as they are when there are no city lights in
proximity, and I did see a satellite, might need a couple of those when we
leave here to help us divine our way to the next stop. But that is still a whole day away....
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