Elijah Clark State Park, Lincolnton, GA

 Happy Birthday & celebrate it with a flat tire!  For a flat tire this really was a happy birthday 🎁 

24 miles from the park the Tireminder Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) started beeping.  That’s nothing new, it finds some silly reason to beep a few times every day.  I always look at it to check what’s happening.  This time it was a real deal.  The tire that was alarming was showing a pressure that was 4 pounds lower every 2 seconds!  That gave me a bit of time to find a place to get off the road.  Of course this was a place with steep shoulders offering no place to pull off.  Then there is a small dirt road with just enough room to pull in.  I go our and find out the valve stem is leaking with a really good hiss.  I twist it around a bit and it gets worse before it gets better.  Well, before it goe flat I maneuver around so I’m not blocking the side road and have a little more room to work; it’s the tire on the highway side.  Now ot get the big Jack under the axle before it gets flat enough to make that difficult.  The 6 ton jack is tall enough that it doesn’t fit under the axle if the tire is completely flat.  Made it!  Now its a quick and easy tire swap.  Back on the road again!

Before I had a TPMS that tire would have gone flat and destroyed itself and tore up a bit of the trailer before I knew about it.  It has now paid for itself.

Nice drive over here other than that.  Oh, there was a glitch in a construction area in Macon where the navigation didn’t work well because the road wasn’t where it was supposed to be.  That was easy, just wait for a recalculation.

Here in the park we found our site.  It doesn’t look the same as it did in the online map.  Little things like 2D vs 3D, it didn’t appear to be a long uphill twisty back in.  That took a couple minutes but we made it fine.  It’s listed as a 50’ site, no mention of the 100’ driveway!  But the view of the water is excellent.  We took a walk around the campground and met a few people, and a couple dogs.  Some of these folks seem to have a trailer, 3 cars and a boat in their site.  One near us has 4 generations of family too, plus a couple friends.  And a couple tents, big kitchen array, coolers etc.

I am a numbers guy in terms of liking certain round numbers.

Check the odometer this morning!

Is there a squirrel out there?

Our view from the camper in our new site

Flowering Dogwood