Lake Hartwell State Recreation Area

The road to our campsite

Our first roadtrip! We're off to Fair Play, SC for the weekend of April 5. It was only 66 mi. and mostly on I-85 so a little over an hour drive. Log on to www.SouthCarolinaParks.com for all the park info.

Since it was early Spring there were a lot of trees but not much greenery. It is probably much prettier when the leaves are out. We had site #6 which was right on the water. There is a site slightly above and to your left but nothing on the right. You could see the boat ramp and there were a few times that boats went in and out. Fishing from the bank only resulted in catching one little fish that promptly got sent back.

View of the lake

We had water and electric hookup but no sewer. This was okay as we arrived on Friday and were leaving on Sunday. State Parks have the nicest sites but hardly ever have sewer hookups. You need to locate the showers/restrooms when you're picking your site.

View of the lake to the left

Boozer and I went for a walk down to the boat ramp. On the way there was a site on either side of the road. Two families had come in pickup trucks and about 6 kids between them. They had actually camped out on lounge chairs with sleeping bags! They were a really happy group and were having a lot of fun. Surprisingly, they were very well behaved. They all wanted to pet Boozer and he enjoyed being the center of attention.

Boozer standing guard

We had our lounge chairs at the end of the site pad facing the water. The view of the lake was really nice. The only drawback was that there was no satellite reception and guess who forgot to pack the movies!!

Nothing to watch!

We are trying to have everything in the motorhome that we need. Even my lists have lists! It doesn't matter, you still forget stuff. You forget, you do without...we won't mention someone forgetting to pack his underwear!!

For being our first road trip, we did pretty well. No real disasters. We'll be off again for Memorial Day, heading to Lake Thurmond.