This post has 3 parts. (A) Camping, (B) tourist information about Copperhill, (C) new lithium battery-pack that I recently purchased
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Copperhill TN is about a 2 hour drive from Atlanta.
I have previously camped in this campground and posted pictures, so I didn't take many pictures on this trip.
I stayed for a week, but had planned to stay for two weeks. We had a lot of wind several nights, and it was cold. I had hoped for warmer temperatures and I decided to leave early.
I want to give credit to Brent for letting me have a copy of a picture of many butterflies. He has a blog called "Brent Travels" and camped several days with us.
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Copperhill,TN is separated from McCaysville,GA by the state line. A river runs through the town and I had previously thought that the river was the dividing line for the towns. I was wrong. I looked up the town boundaries after returning home (using Google Maps) and learned that the Georgia/Tennessee state line is the division between the two towns.
Copperhill had a major copper mine that, I believe, is still in operation without as much production as it once had. There is a 'tourist-train' that has a day-trip to Copperhill and it originates from Blue Ridge, GA. The train stops on a track near the IGA grocery store.
In my pictures, I was at a stop light and took a picture of where the train stops for a couple of hours and lets passengers shop and dine in the area. After exiting the train, people may shop downtown to the right, or walk straight across the bridge and go to McCaysville.
The first couple of pictures taken at a stoplight are a long-block past the brige going south. I just snapped a couple of pictures to show what was beyond where most tourists walk.
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Click to see Copperhill Historic District information below
website=Copperhill-Historic-District ---)))LEFT MOUSE CLICK HERE"(((--- )
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I've had my van about 11 years now. When I first bought it, I went to Best Buy and had them install an isolater and sine-wave inverter for my camping. Since that time, the batteries were old and I had them removed and bought a Bluetti battery-pack (from Amazon).
Years ago, while using the inverter, I could smell something burning. I turned it off and the burning smell went away. I still need to take it out and throw it away. I used the new battery-pack during the night of my camping for charging my phone and ipad. It is well-known that lithium doesn't work in cold temperature and I was camping with about 34degreesF at night. The items that I wanted to charge took a long time to get a full-charge.
I've included a picture of the sunglasses that I like and use. They fit OVER my regular glass so that I don't have to worry about getting a special prescription pair of sunglasses. I bought them from WalMart.
The last couple of pictures are the table that my older son built for the van. The old batteries (2-lead-acid) used to be on the floor behind the passenger seat. Note that the doors are the 'barn-door' type and that is one of the reasons that I likd this van so much. The other major reason is that the chassis is a Ford150 truck and there is more ground clearance than the new vans possess.
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