Lake Santeetlah

 

The View From Our Tent

After all that crappy hard work, we needed a break. From Butters and our real jobs. Thankfully, so did some of our friends!
Last year on Labor Day, we went up to North Carolina for an amazing camping trip that involved kayaking and inner tubing on a lake, taking a stroll through an old growth forest and white water rafting.
It was quite a weekend.
This year, we couldn’t make it happen for the holiday weekend, so we made our own.

That picture up there? That really was the view from our tent. If you stood outside the door and took 13 steps (my steps), you were in the lake.
It’s just stunning up there; might be my favorite camping locale ever (thus far?).

This year we were short one day and part of our group met up with us on Saturday morning after a generator problem with a VW Bus stranded them in the local WalMart parking lot overnight. Turns out it’s quite the hopping place!
So, since we had sleepy friends and one less day, we decided to float around the lake all day (with Greg’s dogs!) and hang out around the campfire all night. Can I go back now?
Plus we got to stop at Colonel Poole’s on the way back home for BBQ – seriously, it’s really good. And I didn’t grow up with BBQ, not BBQ in the southern sense.

The View From Our Tent

Thomas and I in the Mountains

Self Portrait

Thomas and the Nearest Bathroom

Greg and his Traveling Caravan

Murray and Mandy in the Lake

Thomas in the Hammock

Palmer on the Wind Surfer

See Why I Want to Go Back?