Round trip Charleston to west coast

We are wrapping up our trip to Yosemite, Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, Yellowstone, and Wind Cave National Parks as well as Rushmore. Fabulous. I highly recommend the timeframe of this trip. There was space everywhere except Yosemite and the weather was still great. Many of the state parks were deserted. Tonight on the way back we are at Graham Cave state park in Missouri and this beautiful park has 4 sites occupied so we have hot showers, 30 amps, laundry, etc pretty much all to ourselves and it has been pretty much that way. 3 miles from here there are two RV parks with quite a few RVs paying 30 bucks to be essentially be in a parking lot. Go figure.

I'm getting to the point that State Parks are the only way to go!  I have enough power and water that we do not need all the hooks.  Would love to be able to head out west on a long trip but I still have a few years before I can do that.

We are heading for Wild River in Mn. for 5 days on Saturday it is a state park it will close down water and showers on the 25 so will be one of last people to get to use the indoor bath till spring. We are getting so that unless you go during week you need reservations up to a year in advance. There are so many campgrounds that have been sold off for condos and development. We need our state parks and corps of engineers, national parks also. When we were in Duluth Mn. last week there were 2 campgrounds that were sold off that were on Lake Superior and another that went seasonal only these took about 200 sites away from campers. it is very hard to make a living when you only have 6-8 weeks to make your money.