Errands take us into town, Palatka, and we find ourselves at a local pizza place, Nikos.  Crispy flakey crust and just the right amount of toppings.  Great stop.

The drive on to Georgetown is uneventful.  Unloading and settling in is a little messier.  The trailer goes into storage while we are here so that is our first stop. The fellow at the desk stammers and hems and haws a bit as he realizes how big the trailer is and how much room it takes to park it with the motorhome.  There are a few un-nerving moments but he works through it.  Yep, we have a spot.  Now comes the unloading.  The boat has not been out of the trailer since 2019 back in Texas.  We are a bit out of practice unloading and that’s a lot of time for rust and a lot of miles of jiggling and settling.  A rusty receiver on the car hitch is the biggest headache stretching the whole process to 2 ½ hours.  All is ok though and we are off to camp.   I get one of my very rare “opportunities” to drive the car pulling the boat.  It is just 8 miles on rural road where, today at least, there is very light traffic.   No problem.  After a great deal of backing (that is all Kent) we are settled into our home ‘til the end of February.

This 16-year-old miniature horse is the mascot at Country Oaks RV in Kingsland Georgia.  There is definitely a western theme including at least one additional horse down in the lower camping loop.  It is a quiet, family run campground with full hookups and a laundry and even propane; everything we need.  Staff is super friendly and helpful.  We are here just one night as we head on down to our winter camp but will keep this place in mind for future years we winter in the southeast.

C Leigh Stevens house on AuldBrass Plantation.  Built by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Michigan lumberman in 1939.  It was purchased and restored by Joel Silver (of Hollywood producer fame) starting 1987.  We couldn’t even get a good look.  The house is back a gated lane of the 4,000 acre plantation.  It is open for tours, at $175 pp, only one weekend a year.  Online pics are pretty amazing.  Unique in that the structure includes no right angles and inward slanting walls.

Carolina Cider Company.  They make a number of flavors.  We had to try the peach cider.  I am just now tasting it.  Lovely rich peach flavor.  Pretty sweet.  Probably good with a little bourbon.  Perhaps I will check that out. They also tout their fruit pies.  We couldn’t resist.  The peach is probably the best I have tasted.

We have reservations at Ace Basin Campground in Sheldon SC.  They have been difficult to communicate with all along but campgrounds are hard to come by in this area so we took our chances.  First, there is no sign so it takes us three passes to find the place.  We turn in; It is more like a salvage yard than campground with decrepit boats, semi tractors and travel trailers parked all about in the lawn of an abandoned house with a maybe-lived-in double-wide out back.  Yikes!   No one is answering call or text.  A good-natured fellow with jumper cables in his hands appears and we determine that yes, this is the place and there is one open site that has working power, sewer and water.   We settle in and with one final check the proprietor (at least we think he is) disappears.  We are strongly considering shortening our stay from 4 to 2 nights.  No more sightings of any management personnel and communication difficulties continue; making changes to our stay nearly impossible.  In the end we stay and pay for 3. The place served our purpose but it is the worst, maybe second worst, campground we have encountered in 11 years.