Annual South Carolina Spring Camping Trip

[kalonji]

To kick off the year the Lowcountry will host another camping trip. Ride in on Friday night, ride route on Sat., ride out on Sunday morning/afternoon. This time we will invade two other states as well.

This makes the third annual spring camping trip for us. Jose, a former low country inmate got permission from the boss for us to camp on his 2+ acres with fire pit.

Location will be in Charlotte. May 17-19.

Saturday ride to Hampton Tennessee to Rick's Rendezvous. (Around 156 miles one way, we will be taking the more scenic route about 200 miles one way)

Objections or better ideas are welcomed as always.

[caycek5]

I vote for Edisto, but the wife needs to check her work calendar to figure out which weekend is best. I'll vote in the poll next week.

[scooterGdawg]

Its all good. Whenever. We in :-)

[PeeDeeRider]

I am afraid to vote. Pretty sure I can make any of them... just never know what work will throw at me. So.... I will vote after you all pick place and date. Then I'll vote for that one.

[Draechon]

Haha Chris, I feel the same way.

[kalonji]

The title of this thread is misleading..."Camping Trip to Hunting Island" I tried to edit maybe I'll try again.

As a sign of good faith....

If Edisto is decided upon, I made a route, which is subject to change.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...9fc5c8f0e&z=10

[rmb]

I'll be arriving late. Keep the lights on

From Marty

[Laura0107]

I am jelus of all the fun I know you FF's will have. Post lots of pix and tall tales, pleeze. Hope it doesn't rain on you too much tomorrow. On second thought, muddy pix are fun to see .

[RReuphoria]

Originally Posted by Laura0107

I am jelus of all the fun I know you FF's will have. Post lots of pix and tall tales, pleeze. Hope it doesn't rain on you too much tomorrow. On second thought, muddy pix are fun to see .

I'm jealous too! I hope you guys have a great time and post up them pix!

[scooterGdawg]

Been back several hrs now. All i can say is wow! Those who didnt go? Ya, u missed out.

Twas good to meet all the new folks, Mark, i wanna hear more bout your south america travels, too bad we didnt start that conversation sooner. Stacy, rocky, cant wait to read of ur round america travels starting this summer. You guys and jimmy are a hoot and we enjoyed hangin by the fire in ur camp.
Justin, thanks for organizing this shindig, great time i beleive was had by all and we appreciate you. Marty, appreciate u hangin back and ridin back to camp last night. Westin, thanks for switchin seats with me, just hollar when its a good time for u to switch back. Brian, thanks for gettin us on track and down the right roads and just for coming out to join. Keith, always fun havin u around, too bad things didnt work out with the bartendar :-) and tha nks for the double stuff :-)
Ryan, thanks for the route, gotta be tuff planning it from 3 hrs away, it was a great route with mucho dirt, gravel and sand. Thank u for the floaties :-) simple yet effective, not sure how much of it was suppose to be a joke and how much was for caring, but bravo, helped alot dude. And thanks for ridin back with me today. Friday at moe's is on me :-). Lindsay, thanks for keepin Misty company on the ride to and fro and just for coming along.

To all who helped set camp, break camp, helped prepare food or clean dishes, thank you all. We had a great time and look forward to the next venture cos of all you great people !

[kalonji]

had lunch, took nap, did chores, got clean and bout to eat an awesome fried chicken dinnery wife made.

Report and pics to come, may be a couple days as I set out for Charlotte in the AM and have out of town guest for 9 days.

Hope everyone made it home safe. Thanks to all especially Gerald and Misty for all of your culinary delights.

[striperjunky]

Originally Posted by scooterGdawg

Been back several hrs now. All i can say is wow! Those who didnt go? Ya, u missed out.

Twas good to meet all the new folks, Mark, i wanna hear more bout your south america travels, too bad we didnt start that conversation sooner. Stacy, rocky, cant wait to read of ur round america travels starting this summer. You guys and jimmy are a hoot and we enjoyed hangin by the fire in ur camp.
Justin, thanks for organizing this shindig, great time i beleive was had by all and we appreciate you. Marty, appreciate u hangin back and ridin back to camp last night. Westin, thanks for switchin seats with me, just hollar when its a good time for u to switch back. Brian, thanks for gettin us on track and down the right roads and just for coming out to join. Keith, always fun havin u around, too bad things didnt work out with the bartendar :-) and tha nks for the double stuff :-)
Ryan, thanks for the route, gotta be tuff planning it from 3 hrs away, it was a great route with mucho dirt, gravel and sand. Thank u for the floaties :-) simple yet effective, not sure how much of it was suppose to be a joke and how much was for caring, but bravo, helped alot dude. And thanks for ridin back with me today. Friday at moe's is on me :-). Lindsay, thanks for keepin Misty company on the ride to and fro and just for coming along.

To all who helped set camp, break camp, helped prepare food or clean dishes, thank you all. We had a great time and look forward to the next venture cos of all you great people !

Gdawg,
This is how me and Stacy are planning our trip!!



Homebrews and pizza!!!....and a shot of leg on the side!!!

[kalonji]

Well I got home with a couple unexplained bruises. I'm sure the rum had nothing to do with that. Wait.....I mean delicious juice we were drinking.


Let me start from the beginning..........

The weather forecast for the weekend got worse every time I looked at it. Going from 30% chance of T-storms to 60% chance with very strong winds and possible large hail.... so I stopped checking it.

After checking in and setting up camp a few of us ventured back into town for dinner at Outback we were really roughing it. More like giving the waitress a rough time. She started by dumping a glass of water on boybrushedplad. Next, she offered him a pair of dry pants she had in the back. Then, she proceeded to laugh saying she had none. Every time she returned she was sent for something else. Poor thing. To top it off caycek5 set a trap for the bus boy. Something like this but with forks and full glasses of water.

Apparently rmb has some tricks/traps he knows how to leave also. He told us of one not to be tried on a table with a table cloth. Ask him how he knows.

After dinner bikes were traded in the parking lot. I learned I didn't want a KLR. And BBP learned that if he had a SV650 he would be lane splitting, doing wheelies and all kinds of fun stuff.

We split ways with Draechon as he went to "meet up" with a girl....ahem... he knows. The rest of us returned to camp for some juice drinking down at camp 199 with Rocky and his pole crew. I mean whole crew. Some had more juice than others. I've never seen anyone drink as much juice as quickly as Gdawg did. Then he and caycek5's wives showed up. I can't tell you a whole lot after that.....

It rained at some point in the night but the sky was surprisingly clear in the morning.

GOOD MORNING SALUTE

Where were my keys all night? In my bike? I'm glad none of the raccoons rode off on it.

After a hearty breakfast of pancakes, fresh picked strawberries, meatless sausage, some hot coffee and a couple of Aleve we started gearing up.

With the storm a brewing Rocky, Stacy, and Jimmy stayed to play on the beach. We hung out for rmarkr. He arrived, dropped some gear at rvrhwki's site and we headed out.

The first stop was Fort Freemont. Just a few miles down the road. We quickly learned that our route had a few more U-turns than we remembered planning but we got there.
http://www.sciway.net/hist/fort-frem...na-island.html
It was a pretty cool spot, with wifi, so we could get a little of the history from the above link to share with everyone along with a few cool pics.


rmarkr top
boybrushedplad and caycek5 bottoms



more to come....

[rmb]

Hey guys, were we suposed to turn left or right when we came off hwy 21?
Somehow I ended up on the banks of the Mississippi river in Vicksburg MS.
On the way back I stopped at the Brabham motor sports museum. Awsome.


From Marty

[kg4lho]

Originally Posted by JALnSC

How about somewhere near the mountins the first night then head to kickstand the second night. They have cabins and a bunkhouse for the second night. They also cook dinner.
And a stocked cooler.
And breakfast.
http://kickstandlodge.com/

And??

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