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Oak Plantation Campground
Here is the campground looking down our row. Now mind you we are in row HH and it goes to row OO. There are over 250 spaces here. No one ever camped in the rows I took pictures of......... Traveled here to Charleston from Hilton Head on Monday which was a whopping 98 miles and set up camp in a wonderful RV park called Oak Plantation. It is flat, grassy, and has HUGE oak trees all around the property. Funny thing I have noticed about people on this trip. Don and I are not planners as we never know how long we are going to want to travel so we typically don't make reservations. That said, we have never had a problem in the past but this trip we have run into, how shall I put this nicely, a little attitude, checking into some places when asked if we have a reservation. This is the second place that has done this to us. The first place just flat said they didn't have any spots for us when we saw at least 15 to 20 open spots and at this place the lady just did one of those curling up the side of your mouth and sucking in air gestures. Then she asks us "How long is your rig?" when we are parked right out the door. Really? I said we are are 25 feet. HAHAHAHHA! Just joking! Made ya' look
Oak Plantation CG
Our site. Tight fit huh? Lol. though? Geez, let's crack that ice that's in here huh? I know that some of you are thinking that it's probably because we are big but we only go to places that say
BIG RIG friendly. Shouldn't be a problem right? Anyhooo, I've attached a photo of the RV park for you to check out to see how "full" and how tight it is for a 45fter and why it might have been hard for them to accommodate us. It has been a great park to stay in after the initial bumpy start. Probably one of my favorites. Guess I look at it this way, some people want your money and some people don't.
So I finally got to have my "Gone With The Wind" moment as we visited a plantation here in Charleston. We asked the locals which one would be a good one to see and everyone told us to see the Magnolia Plantation as they would give you a more thorough experience. The home was owned by the Drayton family and played an important role in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. There are nearly 500 acres of gardens and grounds to explore. They offer swamp
tours, which used to be the rice fields, tours of the existing slave homes, a petting zoo, and of course the mansion.
We chose to tour the mansion and slave encampment which was occupied by a family as late as the 1960's. They of course were not slaves but Mr. Leach was a groundskeeper who was widowed and raised his 18 children in one of the houses there. Mr. Leach turn 91 in March and still comes to "work" two days a week. Two of his grandchildren work on the plantation and he tells them how to do their job every time he is there. Amazing man.
There were no photos allowed inside the mansion so the only shots are from the outside. It is still beautiful to see. We walked around the grounds ourselves for a while but then it got a little too muggy and hot. We also had to go pick up Miss Karlie at daycare. It was a good day.
We are going to Fort Sumter tomorrow to see where the opening shots of the civil war were fired. So much history here in this town. I will be blogging that soon! 😊K
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