Sunday, March 19, we traveled from Concord, NC to The Matthews Campground in south Raleigh, NC for a month's stay. This campground has 11 full hook-up sites on gravel pads in a wooded setting, but no other amenities. The Matthews are also owners of Capital City Customs, Inc. which does custom RV renovations.
We come back to Raleigh each spring for medical checkups, to help with the Raleigh hamfest, and to visit with the many friends we left behind when we started fulltiming. The Coronavirus pandemic cancelled most of those plans shortly after we arrived, so the last month we have stayed to ourselves. Hank had an eye doctor visit right after we arrived, resulting in new eyeglass lenses, We used a drug store drive thru for RX service and ordered grocery items to be picked up with out having to go in the stores. We decided to forego our medical checkups since we're not having any health issues. Our time was well spent with our computer activities, TV and reading.
There was severe weather during our stay with an extended period of high winds, including a 63 MPH gust, and several tornado warnings in the surrounding area. Listening to all the tree debris hitting the roof was not a comfortable situation, but luckily it appears we came through it okay. There were some big branches down around the campground but none fell on campers, and a large pine tree fell across the access road during the worst storm. The owner and his son promptly took care of cleaning up the campground when the rains stopped.
A couple of weeks ago, we found out we would have to leave here as scheduled on April 16 as our campsite had been previously reserved by someone else for that date. Most campgrounds in this part of NC were full or closed, so we had to find somewhere to go until time for our summer campgournd job in Michigan in early May.
After speaking with our summer boss about the situation, he assured us he still needed us for the summer, and after hearing of our situation, he invited us to come to Michigan whenever we needed to do so. Tomorrow, April 16, we'll be leaving Raleigh to start our 4 day journey to Silver Lake, MI.
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