I feel your pain. In the last few days it has been below zero here with fifteen inches on the ground and more falling as I write this. I feel like you that the cold and snow is just not that much fun anymore and if I want to see it I can always drive to it. Getting out of it even for short breaks is always welcome. Fortunately, we can usually head over the Sierras into California where it is a totally different climate especially by the ocean where a typical winter day is 50 degrees or warmer.
But, I have proof of what you see during good weather... Lake Tahoe, Stare Line area... park.
Our boondocking spot... just a few miles from you... it ain't FL... but it's beautiful.
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It has always amazed me just how really different us human really are !!!!!! As an examples. I have a friend in his early 70's and he is very content to sit the whole day long by him self and make wooden carvings. Another into gardening with a huge supper crop. Another who is a garage workshop tinker 7 days a week. When I talk of all that diversity that is out there across from border to border, coast to coast, No care about travel ,or something I enjoy is fishing, at all. I might as well talk about the atom. Deep yawns, bordum go away. In the subject of age, these same individuals are in their 70's and in very good health. Winter is merely a inconvenience, just turn up the heat, watch some TV maybe, after my afternoon nap. But again there are thoes who want outdoors to move around doing something, I find in talking to campers they fit into this category. Then when the 60-80 hit, your body slows down as in my early post, you just are not able to did. Minds is willing but.... That combined with can not take the cold anymore, and have this felling that there is something out there but where ??? There is the south, and I try to described for those who can and want to there is a WHOLE lot that think and want to do the same. The campgrounds are booked up from March for the next year, when they leave to go back north. Camping becomes a multipule months long event, with all kinds of things to do with people who want to get out.
But as stated above, "If the shoe fits, then......"??? All kinds, at all ages with different degrees of mobility, their body's & their types of campers.
Lots of stuff.
I fished on that bridge the first time in the early 70's when the second year it opened. The same year that on the new bridge that the Corps found a pilling with cracks and they had to, shore up, dam the water out, go down and bust out the pilling and re pore. Was there last year coming in from the north side, very trick getting there from the direction on the high way !!!!! FOG and MORE FOG that day
Summers at Lake Tahoe, Truckee and most of the Sierras are almost perfect. Mark Twain in his book "Roughing It" said "Lake Tahoe is the fairest picture the whole earth affords". It is hard to beat it. Maybe Hana, Hawaii? I am glad you enjoyed your time here. Had I known you were in the area you could have stayed in our yard. Next time?
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Summers at Lake Tahoe, Truckee and most of the Sierras are almost perfect. Mark Twain in his book "Roughing It" said "Lake Tahoe is the fairest picture the whole earth affords". It is hard to beat it. Maybe Hana, Hawaii? I am glad you enjoyed your time here. Had I known you were in the area you could have stayed in our yard. Next time?
Those pictures were '07... we were barely north of you this year on I-80. I had a freudian typo above the first picture... Stare line instead of State Line. "Stare" it is though
Crater Lake is fantastic also.
There are so many fantastic places in North america that I doubt I'll live long enough to have need of the rest of the world. I'm planning another 40 years.
The east coast also has some neat stuff... often just pockets and hard to find.
Thanks to the replies so far. They do give places to look further. I am limited by a rather tight budget and only will have about 3 weeks time. In our toy hauler we often "camp" at Wallys..but the small tanks on the TC will limit that more.
I do have a number of friends and family through FL and Ga that I can visit, if there are not restrictions concerning truck campers in their front yards.
I kinda like the idea of no destination, just take the back roads and see what we find..
We traveled Ireland like that for a month and it was great.!!
Scrinch, There is this song that I heard some where that goes something like, "GOD shared his grace on thee, and crowned thy goods......" If a person that looks at sleepys second photo down and does not know that that song is true, Well........! Mountains big and small, streams, rivers, towns big and small, valleys, oceans, capes, gulf, deep woods, trees big & small, all kinds of cultures and their effect on the area, deserts, swamps, islands, lakes big & small....Something for just about for everyones taste, all for just getting out there to see. A friend said to me I would just as soon read a good book, my answer was this time one year ago what book were you reading. He could not remember as good as I described in detail the trip to a bay & Traverse City, a absolute beautiful bridge & an Island called Mackinac, and an area called uppper (not spelled wrong) by the locals. Mine & everyones else deli ma, is that what my father saw, what I have seen, and what my grandson's will see, for some of this it will change, not all for the good.
I can feel your pain (plowing snow every 3 days, ice and spring comes the end of May)
We left NH in 04 and now just south of Charlotte in SC. We do still miss New England BUT I have to say that it's also nice not to have snow and be able to go camping year around. We were very surprised at how many New Englanders that are down here.
It's a great starting point, 8 hrs from here in any direction,we were amazed where we could be camping. We really like the state campgrounds in NC, SC, and GA. Hunting Island (near Hilton Head) is an undeveloped coastal area with (so they say) the most popular state campground in SC. Almost anywhere on the coast from Assoteague down to Savannah is beatiful and has lots of arts culture.
We like the western parts of NC-SC-GA in the mountains for camping as well. In the north and central part of the state you can find a lot of Revolutionary and Civil War parks and historical areas complete with re-enactments. Scenery out in the lower end of the Appalachians and the upper end of the Smokies is awesome and you can find water cold enough for fly fishing.
In January / February the SC coast from Myrtle Beach to Charleston to Hunting Island is uncrowded and usually relatively (40's to 60's) warm and snow-free. Our first introduction was a trip to Myrtle beach from NH at the end of January. Minus 18 degrees in So. NH and 60's at Myrtle Beach. We loved it so that when the opportunity to relocate to the Charlotte area arose we took advantage.
We would recommend any of the SC state campgrounds, especially near the shore in January/February.
mecarpie wrote: I can feel your pain (plowing snow every 3 days, ice and spring comes the end of May)
We left NH in 04 and now just south of Charlotte in SC. We do still miss New England BUT I have to say that it's also nice not to have snow and be able to go camping year around. We were very surprised at how many New Englanders that are down here.
It's a great starting point, 8 hrs from here in any direction,we were amazed where we could be camping. We really like the state campgrounds in NC, SC, and GA. Hunting Island (near Hilton Head) is an undeveloped coastal area with (so they say) the most popular state campground in SC. Almost anywhere on the coast from Assoteague down to Savannah is beatiful and has lots of arts culture.
We like the western parts of NC-SC-GA in the mountains for camping as well. In the north and central part of the state you can find a lot of Revolutionary and Civil War parks and historical areas complete with re-enactments. Scenery out in the lower end of the Appalachians and the upper end of the Smokies is awesome and you can find water cold enough for fly fishing.
In January / February the SC coast from Myrtle Beach to Charleston to Hunting Island is uncrowded and usually relatively (40's to 60's) warm and snow-free. Our first introduction was a trip to Myrtle beach from NH at the end of January. Minus 18 degrees in So. NH and 60's at Myrtle Beach. We loved it so that when the opportunity to relocate to the Charlotte area arose we took advantage.
We would recommend any of the SC state campgrounds, especially near the shore in January/February.
Bring your coat if you stop here. The wind chill is bitter along the ocean during the winter months... even north FL is cold.
My wife wants to see Graceland. Maybe summer after next we will and also travel the Blueridge Parkway. That is a beautiful area. I agree with you, east coast of the nation does have beautiful areas also.
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