Moving Day

Moving day.  Checkout at 10 am and I was losing at scrabble during breakfast as we closed up the game to load the car. Still losing tonight.  I’d ‘Grrrr’  a bit but that would do no good as Mona wins 3 out of 4 games all the time.  J

We did not rush off the island however as we had learned from the Nearhoofs, and others over time, about the two RV parks on Hilton Head Island itself and wanted to check them out for possible future use.

 In fact, with this still being our number one choice for someday permanent residency if the coach proves as comfortable a year from now as it is today for the two of us we may consider purchasing a lot in a park like this to park us in to live.

The second park we visited today was the least attractive of the two .  It is located at the north end of the island and while it is not unattractive it is a marina/RV park on the intra-coastal waterway. 

But more important it was not as naturally landscaped or lush, and the lots were a bit more mundane. Clean, and well laid out, but smaller, tighter, and closer to the heavily trafficked bridge noise.  And in the early hours, prone to fishing boat charters starting their diesels for the trip out to the banks.

The Hilton Head Island Motorcoach Resort, on the other hand, was exemplary. Located at about the center of the island and just north of the Sea Pines Plantation entrance stations it is only a mile off the Atlantic Ocean beach at a Hilton head Town 

                                               Beach Park.

No doubt we would use our Barony Beach Resort Club pools and beach if we lived here, but the town parks are very lovely and a mile is not too far to walk and only 3 minutes to drive.

This is a class A or C motor coach only resort and we only saw one C in the park today.  In fact I lost count of the million dollar Prevost quality RV’s we saw parked around the resort.

But the lots were surprisingly affordable for a center island location to live.  Of course, owners already own their homes, so the lot is really just a site planned single or double driveway and patio with some grass.  

Beyond the natural forest landscaping is at the discretion of the owner.  However the most attractive sites rent the best when the owner is off gallivanting about the continent. Yes, they are monetized for the park and the lot owner at 50% each and the park does all of the renting.

We met one of the owner board members, owner since 2004 Marianne, on our drive through the park, cavorting with a friend of hers, another longtime owner.

Marianne is the author of a travel blog at www.scoop.it/t/motorhome-madness

After getting to know her a bit I think anyone would enjoy her style and humor!

 

She was so gracious to help us learn about the park and how to rent or buy here (and she is in no way connected to sales) that she invited us to join her on her deck overlooking the lagoon (water retention basin) where the alligators sometimes swim… NOT the RVers!

 

They have a nice pool and clubhouse at the center of the park.

 Will we actually purchase such a site some time?  Who knows.  Only God!  What we do know is that we have much of the world to see before we sit down our levelers for the last, or even a long, time in one place.

We drove off the island and north to North Charleston where we are using some of our Marriott Reward Points to stay at a Fairfield Inn.

Tomorrow we hope to see Jean & Laverne Buckwalter at their home in Timmonsville, SC, on our way to see Mona’s family in North Carolina.

Supper tonight was at a ‘COOKOUT’ restaurant across the hotel parking lot.  It is a Steak and Shake wanna-be. Nice people, and spent less than $10.00 for the both of us but Steak and Shake this is NOT!

-Ken