{"id":15,"date":"2013-08-13T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T00:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e918089b-03a0-4d08-bd5a-2fcd963f8657"},"modified":"2014-08-20T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:34:53","slug":"9-12-august-2013-mountain-falls-motorcoach-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"9-12 August 2013: Mountain Falls Motorcoach Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I’m really getting into the “”Motorcoach Resort” thingie. When we first got ACE, our assumption was that we would, as we’d done with the pop-up and the trailers, camp mostly at state and federal parks. And we will. I promise. But there’s something to be said for the luxury of an RV “resort,” like my last experience with the Hilton Head RV resort<\/a>. Only this time, in the midst of an Atlanta oppressive August heat\/humidity assault, we headed up to Lake Toxaway, NC, and stayed at the Mountain Falls Motorcoach Resort<\/a>. What a place. Although it rained every day, when it wasn’t raining the weather was cool and clear, the views were breathtaking, and the environment was, well, what one would expect from a place that bills itself as a luxury motorcoach resort.<\/p>\n

This was our street:
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\n(Yeah, yeah … I know … it looks a lot like the Hilton Head street, except it’s in the mountains. Right. It’s August and what we were looking for was something a lot like Hilton Head, only in the mountains.)<\/p>\n

This is the way the “campsites” are “furnished.”
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ACE was definitely the runt of the litter, but fit in acceptably well nonetheless:
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And a waterfall on the grounds to add ambiance:
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We played golf a couple times at the local executive course designed by a friend:
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Grilled shrimp-on-the-barbie one night:
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Enjoyed a beautiful sunset:
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And, after dinner with friends at the Gamekeepers’s Tavern<\/a> (where I had, no kidding, kangaroo steak for dinner), we headed back.
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(Pheasant, duck, and kangaroo. The last item tastes like beef–maybe like a moo-cow would taste if it spend its life roaming the prairie, jumping up and down) (whatever that means)<\/p>\n

So, what’s not to like about this “luxury” motorcoach experience? Nothing that I can think of.<\/p>\n

This was also our first trip with the toad doing “mountain” driving. As it turns out, it was a total nonevent. We didn’t break any speed records heading up, although we were faster than the truck traffic. And coming down was fine, although it took me a while to learn how to shift manually between 3rd and 2nd to keep the speed under control. Based on this experience, I’m definitely ready for the Rockies. Well, almost.<\/p>\n

Overall stats for the trip<\/span>:
\nTotal distance: 476 miles
\nCamping expense: 3 x $55\/night
\nFuel economy: 6.72 mpg (which is probably an average of our usual 7.8 mpg when pulling the toad, weighted on a mileage basis with about 3.1 mpg going uphill with the toad)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I’m really getting into the “”Motorcoach Resort” thingie. When we first got ACE, our assumption was that we would, as we’d done with the pop-up and the trailers, camp mostly at state and federal parks. And we will. I promise. But there’s something to be said for the luxury of an RV “resort,” … Continue reading “9-12 August 2013: Mountain Falls Motorcoach Resort”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68mhx-f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}