With a name like Hard Labor I just had to check it out. Hard Labor Creek State Park is absolutely beautiful, but remote. I have very little if any cell service or wifi. When I last wrote Scout was getting water damage repaired and I was staying with my sister and brother in law in North Carolina. Thanks Becky and Chuck!
So the Road2Reinvention is back, maybe. After 40 days in service at Blue Compass RV in Orlando, Florida we went back to Port Saint Lucie, FL, then back to Orlando and now at Hard Labor Creek State Park and The Creek Golf Course in Rutledge GA, just south of Athens and east of Atlanta, GA.
Getting here wasn’t easy. First, I broke my number one RV rule: Never leave the area after RV has been serviced. I picked up Scout and drove to Port Saint Lucie, FL because I was anxious to get my stuff out of storage. But, I discovered my electrical cable was missing (left at Blue Compass), the kitchen faucet was put on backwards, (don’t ask), and my shower door was broken. Thanks to nice guy John at Port Saint Lucie RV Resort, he fixed the faucet, shower door and, in addition two new problems materialized and John fixed both, the hot water heater and the front door. Thanks John!
Thankfully Orlando was on the way to Hard Labor, so I stopped by Blue Compass to pick-up my missing electric cable. I don’t like driving 400 miles in a day, but I was anxious to get the heck out of Florida. It wasn’t much of a warm Florida winter, the weather sucked. I was in the pool once. At least Maggie and I walked on the beach most days.
Hard Labor Creek Campground and the Creek Golf Course are beautiful, and the course is especially beautiful, and very tough. The other day a cart came in with four empty boxes, that may mean 48 balls went somewhere other than the hole? As a golf course host, I am hosing down and putting up carts Friday, Saturday and Sunday until it get dark, and picking up balls on the driving range Wednesday nights before they mow on Thursday morning. I made $35 in tips last Saturday. Nice guys leave a few bucks, in addition to beer cans and candy wrapers.
Athens GA a very nice college town is about 40 minutes from the course, and there is a Trader Joes and Costco for weekly shopping.
I am here until May 27, then will head north to Raleigh and Washington, D.C. I am looking forward seeing Mom, catching up with DC friends. I am scheduled for campground hosting at Virginia Beach First Landing State Park in July. I suspect that may be my last hosting gig, because I am leaning towards selling Scout in the fall.
Stay Tuned.
