RV There Yet?

Boy does it feel good to be on vacation!

As I mentioned in the last blog, we are pausing on posts about the house while we enjoy a fun trip in the Carolinas and Tennessee.  For most of the trip, we'll be in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but we'll be hitting a few smaller sites along the way.  We're doing this trip a little different than usual - we rented an RV with our friends Craig & Jamie.  Ever since Steve and I drove across the country in 2012, we've thought owning an RV would be pretty fun.  Since then, we've tortured ourselves by going to RV shows at least once a year and dreaming about how fun it would be.  We decided that renting one first would be smart to give it a try and see if RV life is really something we'd like to do one day.

So that brings us to this trip.  We wanted to RV close enough to home so that it's not a super expensive trip, but we also wanted to RV far enough away to get a feel for driving it, parking it, camping, etc.  So we settled on the Smokies.  Craig & Jamie were on board in joining us too, so we have great travel buddies!

We picked up the RV at 9:30 this morning and had an hour long orientation so we could learn how to operate everything.  We got on the road around 11:00.  Jamie and I enjoyed the back of the RV by watching movies and drinking beer.  That definitely made the time fly by!

We didn't get into Greensboro until after 5:00, which meant we were too late to go to our first park of the trip.  No worries though, we're going to see it tomorrow and be all caught up on our plans.  Instead we used the evening to do a WalMart run for food and supplies and then Steve went to Pig Pounder Brewing and picked up a growler of their Boar's Brown for us to enjoy at the RV site.  Pretty low key day, but we had a lot of fun just hanging out in the RV!

That there's an RV!

Off we go! 

#dranks

Getting set up

Shitter's full!

Dinner