#240 Buck Hall recreation area

We’ve been to Buck Hall a few times which is right on the intercoastal.

Back before we ever bought the RV we were on a honeymoon in Savannah Georgia. We were riding back and I was thinking to myself and if we go through with this RV trip notion these are the kind of places that we might stay. I just decided to pretend I was looking for an RV place and somewhere north of Savannah I typed in RV campgrounds. Several places popped up on Hwy 17. Just then I saw a sign that said Buck Hall Recreation Center next right. I remember saying let's just take a right and see what this place is like. This might be the kind of places we go to someday.

We pulled in and it was just about as cool as it could be. It was a nice roomy grassy field with RVs all spread out and right on the edge of the property was the Intercoastal waterway and a bathhouse. I don't know about y'all but this is about as pretty a place you could ever want to spend some time. We thought someday we would return here. As we were leaving, we spoke to some Rvers and they said we love it here. It's about 30 minutes north of Charleston which means you're not in the big city traffic but you're not that far from Charleston if you want to visit.

Fast forward a few years and now were there again and for the second time.

Across the way there is the Francis Marion national forest boondock that we had stayed at a year prior. This time we were staying there because it was on the way south and it was dang cold outside. Boondocking is not that fun when its really hot or cold.

We pulled in and found a spot and decided to stay a few days because it was really cold. I think we stayed three nights but it was always in the 30s at night maybe even 25 degrees.

We were watching the weather and there was a forecast that there would be snow within 24 hours and it will start out as freezing rain and sleet.

January 2, 2018

Randall is so cold today it's about 19 degrees and as soon as possible, today, we're heading south towards Conch Key for a couple months or a year we don't know yet.

When I decided I would like to Winter in the Florida Keys I never realized how hard it would be to find a spot at the last moment. After exhausting every kind of state park being sold out and all of the RV possibilities were from 110 to 150 per night it just did not look possible. I spoke to the habitat for humanity representative at Key West and said hey I can be really helpful if you'll just let me live in your parking lot he said no we can't do that. I thought about staying at a storage facility and just not telling them that I was living there and they said you can't live here it's a storage facility.

I was really obsessed about this and so then I started looking at Craigslist under the heading of RV spaces and then the subheading gigs. I thought I might find a hosting job or something and I saw a quick one-liner that said I need a fifth wheel trailer moved.

I decided to respond and I said, I'm in. North Carolina now but I'll be in the keys around the January 20th if you can wait that long. Then I said and if you know anybody that's got an RV space, I'm kind of looking.

Someone responded and they said yeah I can wait if you want to move my fifth wheel trailer and yes I probably got a space I can rent to you it. As it turns out that she owned a motel and had some RV spaces next door and this led to my solution of or how to live in the Keys

Her name was Lee ann I told her I could be handy and we talked about a barter possibility. Now it looks like I have an opportunity to work at a motel as a handyman electrician. I might be a parrot head and just don't know it yet. I had planned on arriving about January 20th. I was trying to join a crew of UMC Nomads working Matecumbe United Methodist Church. The church was in the village of Islamorada. They finally gave me the answer no. They didn’t have enough room for me so I'm going with Leann at the Bayview Inn on Conch key. She seemed happy to have an electrician handyman plumber guy in her trailer park.

I will technically be trailer trash but the scenery and the weather are so nice I will learn to be okay with whatever it is. Instead of being negative I think they might be the nicest people ever we'll find out. It'll be fun to be making money again.