Clemson South Carolina
We continued our run down I-85 to the southwest and chose to land at the Crooked Creek RV park on Lake Keowee just outside the quaint little college town of Clemson. One of the reasons we picked this place was that we had come here for a visit to Bruce's mom and dad while Clare taught a semester at the University as a guest professor.
The Crooked Creek park was large and had decent gravel sites mostly for seasonal folks and overlooked Lake Keowee near where Bruce's parents had rented a condo. Very quiet place but rather devoid of landscaping for a higher rated park ... more designed for the fall tailgater customers than temporary folks like us wanderers.
Below on College Street in Clemson is the old theater now repurposed into a store for game day gear for the students and parents.
If you turned around from the theater you could get this view of the iconic bell tower on the campus. This is a really nice campus and adjoining town in the hill and lake region of South Carolina with views of the southern Appalachian range just to the northwest.
Being lunch time and strolling down College Street we ran across the small pub called Loose Change. OK, sounds like us. Obviously a quirky hangout for the locals we decided to see what they had to offer. As you come in and sit down the view of the walls and ceiling covered with signed dollar bills and college memorabilia greeted you.
We had a couple of their signature chicken wraps accompanied by zucchini fries and two very nice glasses of pinot noir, which became our toast of the day. Great friendly service and great tasting food for about $20 including the wine.
Leaving on the morning of the 8th we snapped this one below of the fog burning off Lake Keowee about 100 feet from our parking site.
Not a bad pick for the ol' guys and gave us a bit of time to relax and make sure the Flying Scotsman was performing the way it should. Now that our plans had changed to a more westerly route we plotted our next run more to the south toward Punta Gorda Florida and friends there.
