Thanksgiving 2025

Another stay at the Cider House. The weather was a little colder than in past years. A wet front blew through on Tuesday and left behind a Gusty, cold wind. This year's experiment was a fried turkey. Jamie provided the fryer, Seth provided the turkey and I provided the peanut oil. I think that it was universally accepted that the experiment wasn't a complete success. We probably cooked it a few minutes too long. Jamie's car overheated on one of the trips to Pat's house. We diagnosed it as a bad thermostat. It was really undrivable so It got towed to a Jeep dealership in Spartanburg. This complicated our departure. We had the RV and our towed Maverick so we split the people in the two vehicles and loaded the baggage in the truck. We also put the dogs in the RV and off we went. We dropped everyone and everything off in Mt Pleasant and made it to Habersham as the sun was setting. It was a somewhat eventful Thanksgiving, Pat and Steve were spectacular hosts, as they always are. Not sure when our next trip will be. Davejennyjournal will be going dark for awhile.

A long weekend

Jenny spent some time in San Antonio to attend not one but two reunions. Her long time girlfriends reunion and our MacArthur HS 55th. I didn't go. She hopefully returns home tomorrow. We are currently into day 25 of a government shutdown. Air traffic controllers and TSA workers are not getting paid. Hopefully she makes it home.

Fall break

Seth and Courtney and two of their girls came for a brief visit during the twins fall break. We hired a fishing guide for a 3 hour fishing trip. The fishing was not good so we went to a fish market on the way home and bought some fish that Seth expertly prepared. Here are some pics.

Leisure Travel Van Rally

We are in Waynesville NC attending a LTV rally. This is a first for us. This was supposed to be the last stop of our summer trip. When we start swapping war stories about our RVing adventures our experience losing the Forester seems to win the most outrageous award. There are around 55 LTVs here. This is the Carolinas Club. We are the only Beaufort attendees but Bluffton has a couple. There are a few scheduled events and breakfast and dinner get-togethers. We are here all weekend.

Tega Cay weekend

Fort Mill had a home game on Friday. We went to see the Twins perform. They were on the sidelines during the game and did a halftime routine. Fort Mill lost by a single point with just a minute remaining but the girls won halftime. Saturday we drove somewhere outside of Charlotte to watch a band competition. The Fort Mill HS Band is gigantic. There were 6 busses full of kids and an 18 wheel semi with their instruments. It was a spectical. Anyway, the Twins are on the dance team and they were part of the bands performance. Fort Mill won the overall award. That's fairly common. The Fort Mill Band has always been one of the best highschool bands in the state. 

Trip Stats

We hit the road on 5 August and returned on 21 September. We put 7,535 miles on the MP. Stayed at 6 State Parks, 17 commercial campgrounds, 1 Harvest Host and visited 5 National Parks. Fuel prices ranged from $3.30 to $6.49. Our milage shot up once we "lost" the car. Our average was 14-14.5 before "the incident" and averaged above 16 afterwards. We had one day coming out of the mountains where we hit over 17. Whoops! Actually, we shouldn't be home yet. We should still have a couple of weeks but as Forrest Gump said "Shit happens". The house is in good shape. The car's battery was dead and would barely accept a charge so I got a new battery this morning. MP oil change is scheduled for Wednesday and we have been researching replacement vehicles to tow. In other words, life goes on. I'll be signing off for a few days. We have a Leisure Travel Van rally in the NC mountains in 10 days. We signed up for it a long time ago and it was our planned last stop on this vacation. I might post from the rally. Don't hold your breath,you might pass out. Sayonara, for now.

South Point KOA Yemassee SC

This is our last stop. Tomorrow's day is only 35 miles. We have arranged to drop off the trailer before noon in Beaufort. This trip has been one for the record books. The first 5 weeks were great but the cascading series of events that occurred after that, were not. Will we be able to laugh about it in the future? Probably not but there is always dementia. The pics: Jenny took the fire pit pic yesterday. The other pic proves if anyone tries to fill my shoes it ain't gonna be easy.