Travel Update 10

Even though we don't spend a lot of time in cities, we started this week of with a trip to Charleston, South Carolina. We felt like it had been a long time since Aiden really got to run around and interact with other dogs so we looked up dog parks in the area and found a perfect one downtown. While there we also got a chance to talk to other owners, one of whom recommended walking along the water front nearby. It was a great recommendation, complete with a beautiful park.

 

Confederate statues seem to be alive and well in Charleston, which as we talked about in our Gettysburg post, is a phenomenon we don't understand.

We were planning on taking off and heading south that night but had a very strange noise coming from our back tires as we drove. After getting to a parking lot and having Andreas watch as Kathleen slowly drove around we discovered that the lug nuts were loose on the back passenger wheels. We tightened them by hand and went to a shop in the morning which tightened them properly. We're still not sure what caused them to loosen. They haven't been touched since Fairbanks. We'll be keeping a close eye on the for the time being.

The next morning we did finally move on from Charleston and headed South in Georgia. We once again struck out on our free camping, when google tried to send us down a road that didn't exist. We found a camp site in the area that we thought might have been where it was trying to send us, but that one was $30 a night. We decided to pass it up, and keep moving on to a Walmart. At recommendation from Andreas's step father, who went to school at Georgia Tech, we did want to see Vidalia and see if we could get any onions. Unfortunately the onions that the Vidalia Walmart was selling were imported from Washington...

From Vidalia, we headed down to Big Mike's RV park. A wonderful experience that justifies it's own post. 

We left Big Mike's on Saturday, in large part because we needed to find a place to watch the football game. We went to our fall back: Buffalo Wild Wings. As heart breaking as it was to watch our team completely self implode, at least the other people at the bar were rooting for us. There was even another duck there that we were talking to. The bartender was totally pulling for the come back with us. Overall it was a crushing defeat, but a good reminder that a successful season is one in which we beat the Huskies and the Beavers. We already got one, and get our shot at the second next weekend.