Making Progress

So on to Waynesville and the Creekwood Farm RV Park, a park we have stayed in quite a few times, nice park, good location, and willing to receive packages and mail.  Something we have been having an issue with as we needed a bunch of things and our mail.  I, and Jan for that matter have been getting back into cigars this year and the only way to buy them affordably is online, and that was one of our shipments being sent ahead, along with a very critical item, a new coffee maker, something that comes before all else, even my meds:-)

Looks like a ton, but sales are sales.

We had a nice site, and since the evenings were cool, we had a lot of fires.

And, of course, we accumulated a few dead soldiers after our week there:-)

As I said we could still easily get to Wild Ginger from this side of Asheville, and we did, in fact two more times, yes it is that good.  We knew we both wanted to have pho our last visit so this time we ordered two different interesting dishes, a rare Thai beef salad and Tanghon, a bean thread and egg noodle stir fry, both were oh so good!

As it turned out we met old man winter a little earlier than we expected, we had 25 degrees several nights with highs only around 40!  The entire east coast got this blast of cold air.  It was refreshing but prevented us going out several evenings, so since we were holed up anyway Jan made another awesome dish, Taiwanese Beef Noodle soup, full of rich simmered beef with bok choy and vermicelli noodles, oh so good and a welcome warmup on a cold night.

We didn't do a whole lot while we there, I shouldn't say it cause it will jinx it, but our step seems to be working at least for now, and no, we haven't installed the new motor yet.  It's just waiting to trip us up coming out the door.

Once it warmed back up some we went over to Lake Junaluska and did a nice walk around the lake about 2.5 miles.  It's on a paved path and just beautiful.

We did get over to Wild Ginger one last time and had our delicious pho, even nicer with the cool temps.  But then our week was over and we planned on moving to a brand new campground for us, Deer Springs, outside of Franklin, NC.

We were really looking forward to this.  It is a small only 8 site park west of Franklin, NC.  Each site has a concrete patio, a gazebo with a sink and refrigerator, at least one fire pit and all the free wood you want to burn and several have a Solo fire pit at your disposal as well!  Sites are large with views, the couple that own it, Jim and Trish have 50 acres.  It is an awesome park which we highly recommend.  We also were met by the hosts, Buddy and his wife who both made us feel welcome and part of a little community.  We can't recommend it more highly.  BUT, if you think you might want to partake, make your reservation soon, it is full now and stays full most of the time!

We ended up using the Solo fire pit every night, it was just perfect outside, the weather really cooperated.  Funny, we have heard all the hype about the Solo's and were looking forward to giving it a whirl.  What do we think?  It is a nice unit, mostly smokeless, easy to use, but the only fault we could find was you really don't have a good view of the fire, being it is down in the cylinder.  It is too big to carry around for us, but it was fun and cool to use.

We didn't have any real goals here, we have been all over this area of the country many, many times.  The fall leaves are waning here now, but still beautiful.  The Nantahala river above the lake is only a couple miles from here so we wanted to check that out and of course sightsee a bit.

So out for our Solo fire, happy hour, and cigars for our last evening, then all the way over to Murphy, NC for another week, 40 miles:-)  Then farther south to Blue Ridge, GA for 10 days or so.  But starting there we do have errands and things to do, we are planning several trips down to the Atlanta area for a couple dental and doctor appointments and hope to see some friends.  We have decided not to stay at the campground we used to go to in Acworth any more.  After years and years, they have made things harder and harder, and with new management that is no longer welcoming or accommodating, we made the decision to just drive down instead.