Retirement Ramblings: Statesboro, GA

Yes, I am late getting back to the blog. To be honest we have been doing the same ol’ thing each month, at least as far as travel goes. Our monthly trips to Hendersonville, NC for Barbara’s dog training course have continued and I can only say so many nice things about Lakewood RV Resort in East Flat Rock. It is very nice, but it would be repetitive.

With the severe rainfalls in South Carolina earlier in the month we thought we would try a different path to avoid transiting Columbia. They were badly affected by flooding and there were many road closures making traffic there miserable. Until just a few days ago I-95 between Florence and the I-16 turnoff was closed. The closure lasted about a week and routed north-south traffic up I-20 to Columbia and then down I-26 back to I-95. That was about a 120-mile detour and added greatly to Columbia’s traffic woes.

We elected to take friend Jerry Crawford’s advice and take I-16 up to Statesboro and continue cross-country to intercept I-26 north of Columbia. So far that has been a great plan. We are stopping in Statesboro, GA for the night at the Parkwood RV Park. Reviews were good, but the Google Earth satellite view was a bit sketchy. It has turned out to be a great little campground. The original property was a fifties vintage motel, and it is still in operation and looks cute. At some point the neighboring field was converted to an RV park. The grounds are all grassed with small hedgerows growing between them. From the road it does not appear to be much due to the storage of RVs on the first row along the highway. Once you turn in you find it is actually a little gem of a park. They have a pool, laundry facilities and sell propane. There is a restaurant nearby, The Boiling Shrimp, which the staff says has gotten good comments from visitors. We will not be trying it tonight, but will keep it in mind for future visits. There will likely be another visit because it is on the logical route to visit the aforementioned Jerry Crawford.