TTS Hop 6
266 miles via I-26, I-526 (around Charleston) and US-17. Cumulative tow miles: 1,437.
This was a pretty straight shot down I-26 to Charleston, with a lunch/refueling stop at the midpoint. The NC portion of I-26 was hilly, but not as hilly as the approach to Asheville from the north. And once it crossed into SC it turned into gentle hills and then, as we hit the lowlands, into a very flat final 50 miles. Pretty straightforward, both literally and figuratively.
Cramped Bear Creek site
The lunch/refueling stop was made more interesting by the presence of a food truck selling fresh boiled peanuts. I had been curious about this southern delicacy(?) for a while, so I plunked down $3 for a pint-sized bag. I ate about 20% of them and tossed the rest. They weren’t totally disgusting, but they weren’t appealing, either. Kind of like eating peas in a soggy chewy shell. Roasting them would have been a much better path for them. I would have eaten them all if they had been roasted.
Our home for 3 nights in Asheville was the Bear Creek RV Park. The location of this park was very convenient. It basically has its own exit off of I-26; it was straight at the exit and up a short hill and the reverse to get back on I-26. I like that convenience. But I didn’t much like that the park was very hilly, with small, narrow sites. I can’t help but reflect on the comment of the person who checked me in: “Oh, that’s a HUGE site!” Believe me, the site was anything but huge. We had to back in right to the fence in order to leave enough space in front to park the truck sideways. It was probably the most cramped site with have had in the past 2 years. To be generous, maybe she was thinking of the site across from us which was larger, though not, I think, “huge.”
The site did offer a nice view out the back window – a nice panorama of the very pretty mountains that surround Asheville.
One quirk: we were given a remote control to access the channels of the park’s cable system. This is unique in our experience. Apparently each site has a cable box the picks the channels. I don’t know what the advantage, if any, of this arrangement might be. It certainly didn’t improve the quality of the cable reception, which was pretty poor.
Overall, not a bad park but probably just a 4 on a 10 scale.
View out the back of the RV