Invitational 2017 Trip: Acworth Georgia, McKinney Campground

We came back home via Atlanta/Acworth area in order to stop and see Braddock's puppies.
Our place for lodging was a flyer, a campground we'd never seen and we went soley by reviews.  Truly, the campground was beautiful, situated right on Lake Allatoona with spectacular views all along.  The only issue is that for our bigger rig, a 37' fifth wheel, the pull through site we had #44, was rather tight.  In order to avoid hitting a tree, we had to turn sharply and take the front wheel of the truck off the pavement. When the tire came off, the truck bounced and the RV and the truck bed hit, bending the RV body near the hitch molding just a bit.  Truck was fine and hitch was fine. It appears the damage is just asthetic, but frustrating nonetheless.  In the end, we ended up pulling the RV all the way through the pull-through site and then just backing it in as a better angle.  Wish we had just driven past the pull-through entry and just backed in to begin with.  That worked rather well.
Each morning we sat out by a fire, but didn't get to spend as much time at the site as we would have liked.  We were busy during the day working Frye in agility with Jen Bachelor and seeing the puppies.  On Thursday night we went out to dinner with Jen and Stephen at the La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant.  We were there a couple of hours just enjoying catching up as it has been a while since we've seen each other.  We always say we need to see each other more often.  Hopefully we can make that happen.

Finally, on Friday morning we got to return to one of my favorite parks for the first time in 11 years, Red Top Mountain State Park.  The best walk is to park at the lodge, get on the trail from there, pass White Tail (it is a dead end, but does go out to a point), and continue with the trail along the road until you reach the homestead loop.  It is a nice 5 mile trail around the lake with beautiful views.
Given the rain coming in on Friday night and me wanting to have visibility to help get the RV out of the site (which was easier given the better angle from backing in), we decided to leave at 5:30pm and drive to VA overnight.  Atlanta traffic to 85 north wasn't bad, but it was heavy and a last minute dart into the appropriate exit lane caused Russ to run off the road and we have a loose piece of metal near the tire from that encounter.  A little bit of a rough ending to a pretty nice trip. 


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