November 2018 – On the Road with Dan & Amy

Magnolia Branch Wildlife Reserve

Atmore, AL

This stop was uneventful and after our last stop, that is probably a good thing. We are on a 2 week leg of travel from Andersonville, GA to Spring Branch, TX, where we will be having solar power installed on the RV. We have 4 stops planned along the way with this one being the first. The park is very quiet with less than a half dozen RVers camped with a capacity of over 50. Our site is a pull through that is very wide and extremely long. We could probably fit 2 of our trucks in front of the RV with room to spare. Normally, we can’t park the truck in front of the RV without sticking into the road.

Andersonville, GA

We arrived November 17, the Saturday before Thanksgiving to spend the week with Amy’s folks. The city campground is located just down the road that is across the street from their house. Our arrival, however was not a happy one as we had issues develop as we left Whitetail Ridge Campground and drove to Andersonville. About halfway to Andersonville on I-185, we noticed a rather large crack in the windshield of the truck so that needed to be taken care of. In addition to that, the 4 days of straight rain we sat through at Whitetail exposed the fact that our issue with water in the underbelly described in our first post was not caused by road spray as predicted.

Whitetail Ridge Campground (COE)

Lagrange, GA

First we’d like to thank our friends, Jim and Corinne, for recommending this campground to us. We intentionally made it our last stop before spending Thanksgiving with Amy’s folks in Andersonville. The only complaint we have about our stay here is the weather. We arrived on Monday, November 12, to a steady hard rain and it pretty much stayed that way until Thursday. Thursday didn’t rain (much) but it remained gray, cold, and breezy. This campground is another Army Corps of Engineers campground like the one we stayed at near Clemson. Like Twin Lakes, this campground is on a manmade lake, West Point Lake, and there are 3 other COE campgrounds on the lake. Maybe someday, we’ll check those out as well but it will be hard to come back to the area and not want to stay here again.

Country Boys RV Park

Madison, GA

We wanted to break up our drive to our ultimate destination in Andersonville, GA for Thanksgiving and wanted to stay at Whitetail Ridge, another COE campground, as our final stop before Andersonville. Looking for a place that divided the distance between Twin Lakes Campground and Whitetail Ridge, we found this campground that had availability and met the location criteria. Besides that, there isn’t much good to say about the park. We think it would make a nice one night stop as it is easy to get into and all the short-term sites are pull throughs. Booking this location for 4 nights was probably a mistake but we are here and trying to make the best of it.

Twin Lakes Campground (COE)

Pendleton, SC

We arrived at Twin Lakes Campground around 2:00 in the afternoon with bright blue skies and warm temperatures. When we found our campsite, the only challenge to getting in was the slope down to where the site leveled off. As we backed the RV into the site, the change from the roughly 8% grade to the level area caused the rear hitch where we have our bike rack to dig a trench in the gravel site. We were a bit concerned about this but it appears as though the Yakama hitch we bought was designed to handle such abuse.