Departed Baker Creek in the morning following the Garmin that had been programmed with our new destination. The Garmin directed us in a direction that I thought suspect and, sure enough, I was correct. About 5 miles from the entrance to the campsite the nice lady’s voice emanating from the device indicated I should turn on a skinny little road that had “DEAD END” clearly marked on the road sign. We ignored the nice lady’s directions and turned around and went back to McCormick, SC, and got on what appeared to be a real highway. Looks can be deceiving and, in this case, they were since the road we ultimately used (State Highway 28 which should actually be called scary narrow road 28) was a very scenic road to Abbeville, SC. Beyond Abbeville, the road widened out to about 9 feet wide instead of 7 feet wide and we were able to continue on our way without terrifying too many drivers of oncoming cars.
We continued up the highway to Anderson, SC, where we drove by numerous fuel stations with the most inexpensive diesel we have seen in our last nine months of travel – $2.279 per gallon. Ironically, we needed no diesel in Anderson because we had not driven far and our speed was quite low since we were traveling a good portion of the way on narrow roads.
We made our destination, TT Carolina Landing in Fair Play, SC, right about lunch time and it promptly started to rain. We only did a partial setup with the Invader until after the rain quit about an hour later. Carolina Landing is right on a lake but the RV sites near the lake involve going down a winding, steep road which we deferred on choosing instead to camp at the top of a hill in the park. No wi-fi except at the lodge but a few TV channels could be picked up using the Invader’s crank-up antenna and two of the four channels are pretty good; one plays old syndicated comedies like Dick Van Dyke and the other is a movie channels that today was running a John Wayne marathon.