A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 201 miles from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Chocowinity, North Carolina.
Travel from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Chocowinity, North Carolina
We drove our coach 201 miles, about four hours of driving, from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Chocowinity, North Carolina. Another new state.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:
An interactive map:
Leaving the campsite:
A little narrow:
A tight turn:
Toading up:
Goodbye beach:
Exiting the state park:
Myrtle Beach Welcomes You:
A plane flying low over the highway; the airport is right next to it:
Blue water at mini golf:
Wax museum:
Another mini golf:
Yet another mini golf:
Crossing the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW):
Welcome to North Carolina:
We stopped at a Hardee’s for lunch, as they had RV-sized parking spaces:
Back at our coach, Paladin in his nest:
Exit:
Hey, there’s Jenn’s brother, Leland:
Northeast Cape Fear River:
Fun with zoom:
New River:
We stopped at a defunct car dealer parking lot; very few stopping opportunities (“stopportunties”) on this route:
Paladin took my seat when I used the bathroom:
An abandoned house:
Neuse River:
A fire lookout watchtower:
Arriving at our destination for a couple of weeks:
Roofline seal repair
We had some flaking paint and sealant along the roofline of our coach, which could potentially leak in time. We’ve been meaning to get it fixed for a while, and had an opportunity in Red Bay.
I don’t have any great “before” pictures, but you can see some flaking in this picture, just above the gutter that goes all the way across:
We took our coach to Pro Finishes in Belmont:
We waited in their customer lounge while they worked on it:
They had Girl Scout cookies for sale, so we bought some:
Our coach in their shop:
Another coach, wrapped in plastic for painting:
Back at our site, closeups of the repairs:
Much better.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
While staying at Myrtle Beach State Park, we went into Myrtle Beach proper a couple of times. Not the popular boardwalk and such, but along the endless strip of mini golf, beachwear, and pancake shops.
Mini golf:
Rope course:
Mini golf:
Park:
Beachwear:
One excursion was to try Cook Out:
Cook Out menu:
Mini golf:
Beachwear:
Beachwear:
Beachwear:
Treats:
Mini golf:
Mini golf:
Beachwear:
Beachwear:
Pancakes:
Beachwear:
Pancakes:
Beachwear:
Beachwear:
Mini golf:
Beachwear:
Beachwear:
Pancakes:
Mini golf:
You get the idea. Not the most exciting part of town. I kinda wish we had checked out the boardwalk area, but it was probably more of the same.
Myrtle Beach State Park beach
While staying at the Myrtle Beach State Park campground, we walked to the adjacent beach on several days. Nice to be able to walk to a beach:
A cannonball jelly; apparently harmless:
Waves:
Pier:
Gift shop:
We walked out on the pier, while enjoying some very melty ice cream:
A sign with info about jellies:
Boardwalk:
Picnic shelters:
Gaillardia flowers growing wild (we used to buy them at a garden center):
Beach:
Pelicans:
We loaded our beach chairs, mini table, and cooler into our cart, to enjoy a picnic dinner on the beach:
Plane:
Myrtle Beach State Park
We stayed at Myrtle Beach State Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A nice state park in the tourist town of Myrtle Beach.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-04-28
- Check out: 2024-05-12
- 7 nights
Weather:
- Partly cloudy, some rain
- High temps 76-86°F, lows 60-72°F
- Little wind, gusts to 24 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train noise
- Regular airplane noise (in the flight path of Myrtle Beach International Airport)
- Some neighbor noise (mostly yippy dogs)
Site:
- #204, back in, dirt
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
- Rather unlevel, high on passenger side and back; used hydraulic leveling with blocks under the front (though not completely level)
- Dirt driveway about 60 feet long by 18 feet wide
- No neighbor on driver side, trees about 14 feet to 45 feet to road
- About 35 feet to neighbor on passenger side, with tall trees and shrubs giving decent privacy
- Picnic table
- Fire pit
- Tall trees
- Clean site
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 60 PSI water, conveniently located
- Loose sewer connection, conveniently located (2 10-foot pipes needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 28 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 35 ms ping
- Campground Wi-Fi: 25 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 5 ms ping
- AT&T: 7-10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 85-170 ms ping
- Verizon: 1-17 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 70-115 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Nearby beach
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Nice under the trees
This is one of the most expensive state parks we’ve ever stayed at, but considering the location and what it would’ve cost at one of the resorts in the area, it’s a good deal, especially with the proximity to the beach. It was nice and shady under the trees, but it got tight on some of the roads for our 40′ motorhome. We had site 204, which was large enough for our motorhome and tow vehicle but extremely sloped front-to-back, and we couldn’t get completely level. The other major drawback is that the park is directly under the airport’s flight path, so it can get a bit loud. Thankfully, they seem to not operate after 11pm. We camped at Myrtle Beach State Park in a Motorhome.
Campground map; a mix of sites with 30 or 50 amp power, and with or without sewer:
An interactive map:
Our site was quite nice, other than not being very level:
Utilities:
We enjoyed being surrounded by tall trees:
Birds:
A glimpse of a plane overhead through the trees:
Playground:
“Hover like a Hummingbird”:
Bathrooms:
More bathrooms:
Garbage and recycling:
Circle entrance:
Other sites:
We’d be happy to stay here again. Stay tuned tomorrow for some scenes of the beach by the park.
Video: Columbia to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 150 miles from Columbia to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Travel from Columbia to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
We drove our coach 150 miles, about three hours of driving, from Columbia, South Carolina to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Reaching the East coast! (Other than Florida.)
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Leaving the state park:
A line for the dump station; we didn’t need to dump, but had to wait for a bit to get past:
The dump station:
I-20 East:
Fun with zoom:
Iron Skillet Restaurant at a Petro truck stop:
We like Petro, as not only do we get fuel discounts there, but they are often very large, with lots of parking spaces and uncrowded fuel lanes:
Our fuel fill; as usual, we paid less than the pump price thanks to our fuel discount card; we paid $204.71, a saving of $27.47:
Easy parking:
Petro has laundry and showers facilities, and even a hair salon:
And the aforementioned Iron Skillet Restaurant, where we had breakfast for lunch:
Back at our coach, Paladin asleep on the dash:
I-95 North:
Route 76 East:
Crossing over a portion of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), an inland water route near the coast that runs almost all the way down the East coast from Massachusetts to Florida and across the Gulf to Texas:
Arriving at Myrtle Beach State Park:
Camper check-in:
Following the coach to our site:
Barrier cushions
There are a bunch of wires and stuff under the dash in our coach, which are too tempting for Paladin to play with when he’s in a bratty mood:
So while at Red Bay we got Lindsey & Winchester Drapery to make a custom barrier cushion for that space (something they do for many owners with pets).
Here’s a rough cut of foam for the shape:
And the final product, delivered later that week:
In place:
We also got them to make a small barrier for under the bedroom slide-out, to prevent Paladin from pushing things under there:
And a block for a larger gap in the corner:
These work great. Of course, we remove them for travel days.
Replaced SeeLeveL II panel
In the wet bay of our coach is a SeeLeveL II tank monitor panel, that shows the battery, fresh tank, grey tank, and black tank levels:
The panel stopped working, and I had it replaced less than a year ago, but it got wet and stopped working again when doing recent wet bay mods, so I needed to replace it again. Rather than paying the inflated price the service place charged me, I ordered the panel from RVupgrades.com, and replaced it myself. I also ordered the correct panel for my coach — notice that the above picture has a button for LPG level too, but my coach doesn’t have any propane.
Here’s the back of the old panel, showing the connectors; power and tank level on the left, and the RVC network port on the right:
The replacement panel, model 709RVC-NLP (RVC for that port, and NLP for no-LP):
I also got a gasket to hopefully protect it from water intrusion a bit:
The new panel installed:
Easy.