A Busy and Wonderful Trip

    It started with an email from Aunt Betty in the Spring.  Uncle Bob would be celebrating his 90th birthday in July and she was planning a party.   I thought about it for a whole day, then decided I really wanted to go.  The "planning ball" was set in motion - maps from AAA (backup for the GPS) and reservations made from here to Massachusetts.
   On July 4th we left for Kingsland, GA to visit and spend the night with Julia, Gene's step-mom.  Sunday night we stayed at a Passport America park, Jolly Acres, in St. George, SC, and then traveled to Raleigh, NC to visit our friends, Tom and Nancy.  They treated us to a delicious meal at Sardis' Den Monday evening and Tuesday morning we watched Tom fly his Phantom helicopter.  It was impressive!  Afterwards, he played three pieces on the piano, which I always enjoy.
   We were headed for VA when a little blip on the screen of life occurred.  We exited I-85 at Oxford, NC to check the gas price at the BP station.  Gene needed to move up to the next pump (one that would accept our card) and the RV wouldn't start - just made a pathetic "click-click-click" sound.  The good news was that we were right across the street from a Chevrolet dealer.  The bad news was that they didn't want to accept liability for towing us over there.  Gene called AAA and then called Tom and Nancy, who graciously came and picked me up.  Eventually AAA arrived, loaded the RV onto the ramp of the truck and took it across the street.  We thought it was the starter, but by 5:00 they had determined it was the battery, installed a new one and Gene was on his way back to Raleigh to pick me up - about a 45 minute drive.  Nancy had fixed a sandwich for Gene, which he gratefully consumed, and I enjoyed his left over bar-b-que ribs from the previous evening.  We were on our way again and made it to the campground in Williamsburg, VA by 10:15.
    Wednesday we traveled into Maryland and crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.  They funneled six lanes of traffic through the toll booth into two lanes to cross the bridge.  The process took about twenty minutes before we reached Kent Island, the first English Settlement.  The bay was pretty and I took several pictures of it and the bridge.  We stayed at Holiday Park Campground in Greensboro, MD, another Passport America park.  It had spacious, shaded lots, a very clean bathhouse and was nice and quiet.  Just what we needed after Tuesday.
     Thursday we drove through Delaware and into NJ and stayed at Timberland Lake Campground in Jackson, NJ - another nice Passport America park.  It rained awhile and I drifted off to sleep with the pleasant sound of rain on the RV roof.
     Friday we traveled across the George Washington Bridge into NY.  The potholes on I-95 were really bad and traffic was bumper to bumper all the way into CT.  Not our favorite driving conditions, but we survived.  We finally arrived at Gateway to Cape Cod Encore Resort in Rochester, MA.  It was good to be settled in one spot for a few days.
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