Sunday, August 12, 2007
Moonshine Creek Campground
On Monday, July 30, we travelled to Moonshine Creek Campground in the little town of Balsam, NC. Downtown Balsam has a post office and a Baptist Church. It is at the intersection of US-23 and the Blue Ridge Parkway half way between Waynesville and Sylva. Now with a name like Moonshine Creek, some of you are probably asking yourself, "Is there a moonshine still there?" The answer is empahtically YES!
I don't really know how well it works because there wasn't anybody around the campsites that would admit to knowing how to operate it. I think that there were rumors of possible "revenooers" in the area.
However, we had a comfortable campsite right next to the creek with mountains on both sides so we did not see much sky from the campsite. It was an excellent place to sit and read.
The kids from the campsite across the creek from us made good use of the creek!
Speaking of kids, the first day, we went to Dillsboro to check out that little town. Thomas the train was in town that day giving kids short train rides on the Smoky Mountain Railroad. There was a charge for that but there was a free carnival with lots of kid's attractions like toy trains, sand boxes, bubble blowing machines and slides.
We had a good lunch that day at the Dillsboro Smokehouse. Yummy blueberry cobbler for desert (We shared one!).
That was our first day. Other activities from our trip will be posted as I generate them.
# posted by Bob @ 8/12/2007 04:20:00 PM 
