To quote the Grateful Dead, "What a long strange trip it's been". Our itinerary changes daily as states continue to close their parks. We are still in South Carolina but this is our last campground and SC parks are now closing. They have had self registration with no park employee contact at the last several parks. Our reservations in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee were cancelled. The only state on our way home that still has open parks is Kentucky. We will stay there 2 days to break up the trip and then make a big press for home, staying in rest areas if need be. Luckily, we have our own bathroom and kitchen on-board as well as plenty of food so will not need to interact with anyone or anything other than a gas pump (with glove on, of course!) Parks have been quiet with very few people on the trails and those we do see have been politely keeping their distance.

Spring is when the Redbuds bloom!

Nobody allowed on the beach!

Rochelle is going to stock the pantry and refrigerator so that we can all quarantine together (she is working from home) for 14 days.
We were trying to get 100 Geo-caches this year but will probably fall a couple short since we are shortening our trip.
I wrote the above a few days ago. We reserved a campsite at Devils Fork Park in South Carolina originally because it had beautiful waterfalls and high gorges only accessible by boat. But, of course, we had to cancel the boat trip. We left that South Carolina park early when we were told that we weren't allowed to walk on the trails. They continued to allow big congregations at campfires, boating and fishing! Of all of those activities, I think trail walking is probably the safest! No boat trip, no hiking = we're outta here!
North Carolina really didn't want us! So, we sailed right through it!

On the way to our next park on way home we stopped at Cumberland Falls to break up our drive. It reminded me of Tahquamonon Falls without the tannin.

Cumberland Falls, one of the top 10 waterfalls in the nation.

We actually only stayed one night in Kentucky. Apparently, social distancing has not made it here yet. One lady asked me where I was from and when I said Michigan, she asked if we had the virus there. I tried to explain to her (from a distance) that it was everywhere. Duh! Then, she told me that Jimmy Buffett had died from it, which turned out to be untrue. Apparently it was another singer!
Anyway we made it home safely after a long 12 hour drive the last day. We are currently quarantining in the driveway in the RV to protect Rochelle. We have had little to no contact with people in the last two weeks other than as safe as we could make it grocery shopping and keeping a 6 foot distance when outside.
We did have enough toilet paper to last for the whole trip and a few rolls left over which is good since there is still none to be had locally. We traveled 5100 miles in 16 states, wore the tread off the bottoms of both of our shoes while walking 376 miles, found 98 Geo-caches and arrived home 12 days earlier than planned. At least most of the snow is gone at home but it's damn cold!
Until next year.....