Continuing northwards

On Tuesday, we continued north...

... stopping for fuel in South Carolina to "top off" Gracie's diesel before heading into higher fuel prices in North Carolina and Virginia.

We didn't get a picture of the "Welcome to North Carolina" sign, but we stopped in Gastonia where there was a Walmart store relatively near a Sam's Club and a parking lot that we could fit into.

We walked over to the Sam's Club and then had to carry our purchases back to the rig (a little less than 1/2 a mile - thankfully we remembered to bring bags to hold our items on the walk and we were able to split the items into reasonable equally weights for easier carrying (I was carrying two bags too in case you might think Carl was carrying it all!).

After walking over to Walmart and getting more groceries, we continued up into North Carolina to Advance, where we've stopped at a Thousand Trails for about a week - Forest Lake campground.

It is funny to think back that Carl has only started staying at Thousand Trails since we married... He doesn't precisely remember all of the campgrounds, but remembers when I remind him of certain characteristics...

We chose *not* to stay at Carolina Landing on this trip (which would have been right at the Georgia / South Carolina border) - since Dwayne and I had stayed there previously and were unimpressed, and then Carl and I stayed there in 2020 and were similarly unimpressed (we call it the "terraced site campground" - if you look at the pictures from our post you may see why: https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/03/carls-first-thousand-trails-campground.html). 

We also stayed at Forest Lake for a few days when Carl and I were driving Miss Doozie from Texas to Virginia back in 2020 (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/03/forest-lake-thousand-trails.html) - I remind Carl of which campground it is by "the campground where we had the loungers out beside Miss Doozie" (if you go to the link you'll see the picture). The area of Forest Lake where we'd hiked on an ATV path back in 2020 has now been made into new campsites, most of which are great for big rigs for which we are grateful!