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Raccoon Branch CG in Virginia

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 Sunday May 21, 2023 We departed the campground at Lake Murray (Dreher Island State Park) at 8:45 this morning. There was no line at the sewer dump station so we were only ten minutes or so emptying our holding tanks and getting out on the road. scenes from Raccoon Branch I planned a route without any interstate highway travel. There was one section of a state road north of Gastonia North Carolina that was limited access, but there was little commercial truck traffic. The main road of our route was Hwy 321, we traveled it from Columbia SC to Boone NC a distance of 150 miles. scene from Raccoon Branch We stopped for fuel and lunch in the Linclonton NC. No special reason why we chose this town, we just needed both. Leaving the limited access section of 321 we found a busy commercial area with lots of food choice’s but poor parking for an RV. We settled on Popeye’s chicken sandwiches eaten in the RV in the adjacent Ram/Jeep/Chrysler dealer parking lot. It was Sunday and they were closed a