Life at Site 51H.....

Well hello there all.  It's Miss Anne here today.  I swiped the computer after Rob got his work finished this morning to try my luck with this blogging thing.   

Now I don't think we've been formally introduced, but I'm Miss Anne.  I'm a 2017 Surveyor 201RBS travel trailer that came to live with Mr. R and Mrs. T just a few short weeks ago.  Wow what a ride it as been so far.  My birthday is Jan. 5, 2017 incase anyone would like to know.

After sitting for several months on the dealer's lot up in Claremont, NC, the Mr. and Mrs. dropped by one Friday about lunchtime to look at new campers.  Next thing I know, a few days later, I'm being pulled out, washed, hooked up to shore power, and water, and all my systems are being tested and checked.   

Later that morning, I met not only the Mr. and Mrs., but Levi, the truck who will be tasked with the job of pulling me all over the place.   It is from Levi I learned a little about the Mr. and Mrs.  He told me about Pod, the cute little trailer they traded in for me, about how they love to go camping, a lot, and how Mr. R will keep me clean, in proper working order, and make a few changes called mods to me as we go along.

Just as Levi told me, Mr. R has washed me twice, waxed me once, has plans to get me my very own Camper Port, keeps me hooked up to power at all time, and has even done a few very nice mods along the way.   The Mr. and Mrs. have also decorated me very nicely inside, and have sorted and stored all of their camping gear in me.  

Some of the mods Mr. R has done to me so far is to add a built-in surge protector to protect my electrical system and electronics, a set of underbody lights for nighttime just because Mr. R thinks they look neat, a touchpad door lock, a second battery, rain covers for my vents, and a few other odds and ends.   He's looked, poked, and prodded just about every square inch of me just so he knows all about how I work.  He's even promised to update the blog over the next few weeks to tell a bit more about me.  

Now, as for today's blog title.  Well I'm parked this week at Raccoon Holler Campground in Glendale Springs, NC.  Levi told me this is one of the Mr. and Mrs. favorite campgrounds.  In fact, this is the second time we've all been here in just a couple weeks.  We're all in site 51H.  The "H" stands for hill and let me tell you, we're right at the top of the entire campground, and it sure is grand. 

This seems to have been a lazy week for the Mr. and Mrs.  They have been camping with the Mr.'s cousin Sharon, and her little doggie Murphy.  Sharon's camper is known as Splash T@B, whom I've not met yet, but I know I will soon.  Sharon's truck Splish, has been telling me all about Splash.  

Mr. R likes to take pictures, and apparently they all like to eat really good smelling food.  Mr. R has turned my rear rack into an outdoor kitchen, and I'm just betting there's a mod or two rattling around in  his head on how to make it an even better outdoor kitchen.  

Well enough chatting for today.  It's been great to meet y'all and I'm looking forward to more blog posts to come.  Before I leave you with some pictures of life from in and around site 51H, I have a question (well two.)  What exactly is a sticker?  And, should I be worried?

I think that's all for this post.  Thank you once again for the warm welcome and good wishes.  

Until next time, stay safe out there....Miss Anne

A Lazy Monday......

Happy Tuesday morning all.  We're back with our latest blog post this morning.  The title says it all.  Yesterday was indeed a lazy Monday for us.  But that's a great kind of Monday isn't it?

Our morning was quiet, Rob fixed a crockpot full of Mac and Cheese for a lunch event we were invited to here at the campground.  Showers passed through after lunch and stayed around for the next several hours.  So right on cue, we just took naps, and generally did a whole bunch of nothing until the sun came back out later in the afternoon

Dinner was left over salmon, corn salad, mac and cheese, and smoked cheeses.  It was just as good as the evening before, maybe better.

After supper we all loaded up in Levi for a nice BRP cruise.  We saw two deer and lots of beautiful mountain vistas.   Here are a few pictures of our day, not many because Rob just didn't take very many.

Well there's no telling what today's adventures will be, so you'll just have to check back to tomorrow to find out.

Until next time, stay out there.....-R,T,&J. 

The Best Kind of a Monday Morning......

Good Monday morning all. This is the best kind of a Monday morning.  We're back at Raccoon Holler Campground, enjoying a peaceful, sleep-in, cool, mountain sort of Monday morning.

Miss Anne and the gang left home a little after eleven Sunday morning, and we were here about 1:30 or so Sunday afternoon.   We had an un-eventful drive here, in fact, we took the "long" way so we could enjoy a nice little BRP (Blue Ridge Parkway) drive before arriving at the campground.

It didn't take us long to set up camp and enjoy a couple sandwiches for a lite lunch.  About the time we were finishing our sandwiches, Cousin Sharon and Murphy, who are also camping here this week, drove up to visit.  

Now you may ask why drive over.  Well, it's like this.  Cousin Sharon and our campsites are on opposite ends of the campground.  We both have what many would consider the two of the top three sites in the entire campground.  (Insert a big dose of good luck, karma, etc. here as the cause to this!!)  But true to the NC mountains, it is uphill both ways between our two campsites...HAHA.

We even got a picture of cousin Sharon's campsite on the way out last evening to enjoy a BRP drive.  This was a drive by shooting of sorts.  If you zoom in, you can even see what cousin Sharon is watching on TV!!!

It was a wonderful afternoon of visiting and sitting around the campfire.  Supper was provided by the GMG, baked salmon and it sure was yummy.

We had a few technical difficulties at first with the GMG, but only because it blew a fuse upstream in the electrical connection that Rob didn't know about.  That was quickly remedied, and before long dinner was cooking.  Rob set the GMG up on the back rack of Miss Anne, and of course, he's already planning a couple mods to make an outdoor cooking area.....

After a wonderful dinner of baked salmon, corn salad (thanks cousin Sharon!!) and cole slaw, cousin Sharon went back to her place, and we went for an evening ride on the BRP.  

There are just too many beautiful views to take a picture of them all, but here's one for you anyway......

We arrived back to camp just on the edge of dark.  It was time for Miss Anne to show off her new underbody lights....

So far this morning, Jackson and Rob have been on a long walk, Rob has started something yummy in the crockpot for a lunch gathering here in the campground, and whop cinnamon rolls have been fixed for breakfast.  

It looks to be a great mountain day here, and we sure do hope your day is great as well.

Until next time, stay safe out there.....-R,T,&J.

A Lazy Wednesday Here In The Holler.....

Good Thursday morning all.  It's a clear, cool, beautiful mountain July morning here in the holler.  It was 65 degrees when Jackson and Rob went on their first walk of the morning about seven-ish.

Just as we predicted, yesterday was a lazy sort of day.  It involved breakfast, showers, a trip to Lowe's, sandwiches for lunch, afternoon naps all around, dinner, and then some tv before bed.  

Wow, what a wonderful day.  We didn't take our Parkway ride due to the threat of severe storms marching through about 7:30 last evening.  They wore themselves out before they got to us, so all we had was a gentle rain shower.  That was fine with us!!

Below are a few pictures from our lazy day here in the holler.....

A breakfast of cinnamon rolls and square sausage...

Cooking dinner and the results...

We even ate inside this evening...

And finally Jackson, with his best 

guard/chilling/camping

doggie pose...

We're not sure what's happening today.  A trip to Mountain Outfitters was discussed last evening.  I guess you'll just have to check back tomorrow and see.  As always...

Until next time, stay safe out there.....-R,T,&J

Miss Anne is in the Holler.....

Good Wednesday morning all.  We slipped away from the heat and humidity of the piedmont of North Cackalacky yesterday about noon and made our way to the cool mountain breezes of the High Country.  

We're camping, our first trip with Miss Anne, at Raccon Holler Campground in Glendale Springs, NC.  So far it's been a great trip, with nothing very eventful happening yet.  

We brought the Miss Anne home a week ago yesterday, and so far we've spent the past week sorting, deleting, and packing our camping gear.  We've made one trip to Camping World, and so far only one package has arrived at the house for the Miss Anne, but that should change this week too.  

We've also done a bit of decorating inside Miss Anne to make her more "ours."  

Pod was largely decorated with things we had collected on our travels or "Camping Happy's" from other camping friends.   We of course used all of these favorites to decorate Miss Anne.  

This trip is serving two purposes, first a quick get away, and second, a shake-down trip to get any kinks worked out of the Miss Anne.  So far the only item has been that Rob needed to adjust the position of the spring bar connectors for the weight distribution hitch.  Otherwise, everything has worked great.  

It was a dark and stormy night as the great author Snoopy writes, we were tired and both slept good in our new bed.  Today involves breakfast, a trip to Lowes, and cooking something yummy on the Green Mountain Grill later today.  Plus, I'm sure there'll be at least one ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  

Finally, we'd like to leave you with one last photo.  This picture is of the rear of the Miss Anne.  We'd like you to notice two things.  First, the rear view camera system which Rob says is the bomb-diggity.  Second, we were able to transfer Pod's personalized license plate to the Miss Anne.  We loved Pod and had seven awesome camping season's with Pod, so we thought this would be a nice reminder of all that fun and adventure.  

As always......

Until next time, stay safe out there.....-R,T,&J

Welcome to the Miss Anne.....

Happy Tuesday evening everyone.  It's Rob here taking over the blogging duties this evening.  By now most everyone has read about the exciting day we've had today.  It's been bitter/sweet for sure.  

We have really love and enjoyed our r-Pod these last seven years, but we also have come to realize a little more room, an easier bathroom layout for Trisha, a north-south oriented bed, among other things would be nice too.  

We've been looking for about the last 8 months or so.  For one reason or another, we couldn't find anything the checked off a majority of boxes on our must have list.  This past Friday we returned to Carolina Coach and Marine to look at five different trailers.  One built by Lance, one by Livin Lite, and three different Surveyors by Forest River.  

The Lance was sold, the Livin Lite just wasn't accessible enough for Trisha, so that left the Surveyors.  After looking, talking, relooking, comparing, (you get the idea), we settled on a 2017 Surveyor 201RBS by Forest River.  It had the most of all the features we wanted in one package.  We went in, did all the math, looked at the numbers, did just a bit of haggling, and as they say, "the rest is history!"

Today I hitched up Pod for the very last time, I took one last photo, and then we were off to Claremont, NC to leave Pod and take delivery of our new Surveyor.  

Today was definitely a process, we left home at 9 this morning, and returned about 4 this afternoon.  Two hours of that was travel time, the rest was taking care of all the set up, walk-through, etc. that comes with buying a new travel trailer.  

I took a couple pictures once we got home, and started getting stuff that was stored in Pod, put away in our Surveyor.  

Jackson (who wasn't at all happy when we were unloading Pod) wasn't too convinced at first, but once he smelled his familiar blankets and pillows, he figured everything was going to be just fine with the new digs.  

That leads us to the next order of business.  Namely, a name.  I woke up about 3:30 this morning and never did go back to sleep.  I just can't imagine why....   

One of the things I was doing was pondering what to name our new camper.  After awhile, I came up with the name Miss Anne in memory of Trisha's mom whom we lost in 2015 after a long and heroic battle with cancer.  

Now Anne, or Miss Anne as she was called, loved to travel.  Her idea of travel usually included airplanes, cruise ships, luxury motor coaches, well you get the idea.  

When I suggested the name to Trisha on the way home today, she asked my why.  I told her that if her mom was to have ever camped, it would have to be in something as nice as our new camper.  Plus, I think she would have liked the idea of us naming our new camper for her.  

It only took Trisha a quick minute to agree.  And so now instead of "R&T's Podding Blog", our blog will be called "Adventures with the Miss Anne."  Have no fear,  I'm sure Miss Anne will soon get the hang of blogging and talk our ears off. 

Well it's getting late, I've had a long and busy day, and my eyes are getting tired.  Tomorrow we'll finish the sorting and loading of gear into Miss Anne, with the goal of trying to go camping a few days next week.  

Thanks to all who have followed our adventures with Pod and I hope you continue to follow along on our adventures with Miss Anne.    

So, until next time, stay safe out there.....-Rob

A Pod's Farewell......

Happy Tuesday all.  It's Pod here.  I have some very big news.  Rob and Trisha have traded me in on a new travel trailer.  Rob said I could make one more post to tell all of my followers here the big news and  tell all of you goodbye too. I know I'll miss each and everyone of you, but I just bet some of us may meet again!!

Now I'm not going to tell you what they bought, but I'm sure there will be pictures and a whole blog post later.  I am glad to tell you that they did buy one of my cousins built in the same plant where I was built in October 2009.  Rob and Trisha have actually toured there and I know that's why they bought "in the family."

Here's a picture from my very first day with Rob and Trisha when they were picking me up.....

We weren't much of a gang then, just Truck, Rob, Trisha, and myself.  But, we have grown.  We've seen Karri the beach cart, Chillbert the ice maker, Rod the rod holder, P-Nutty, and Stinky the tote tank, just to name a few, join out team.

While I'll miss them all very much, I just know that I'll find a great home to move to very soon and Rob and Trisha are gonna love camping with my new cousin.  

Here's the very last picture Rob took of me as we were leaving this morning .....

So to wrap this up, let's not say "good-bye," but let's say "we'll see you down the road somewheres."  It's been a blast, and just POD ON!!!

As always, keep it safe out there......-Pod