First Day at Moondance — Our Glamping Adventure Begins

🌙 First Day at Moondance — Our Glamping Adventure Begins

There’s something magical about trading the noise of everyday life for the quiet hum of nature — and that’s exactly what we found at Destination Resort in Dadeville, Alabama.

Tucked beneath a canopy of trees, our glamp site — affectionately named “Moondance” — greeted us with twinkle lights, cozy comforts, and the soft sound of the creek just beyond the trees. It’s camping, but with every touch of charm and luxury you could dream of.

On the drive up to our cabin, we also had a brief moment where we both wondered if our friends were actually leading us into the woods to murder us. Every turn seemed to get darker and more “Deliverance-y,” and the GPS had stopped talking to us about two miles back. I told Jess that if they offered to show us a “really cool spot by the creek,” we were flooring it.

We started the day settling in — unpacking our bags, sitting on the deck while enjoying a quick snack and a Mexican Coke from the gas station before wandering down to the Adirondack chairs set right in the creek, and letting the cool water rush past our feet. The whole place feels designed to make you slow down and breathe a little deeper.

Later, we had dinner at Niffers where we enjoyed seven whole rounds of Bingo. Jess won a round, but nobody else at the table did. However, she was too nervous to shout “BINGO!” in front of a crowd of locals who clearly took their Bingo very seriously. So instead, she quietly slid her card over to me and made me walk it up front. There I was — explaining to the sweet but skeptical Bingo lady why the handwriting on the card looked way too neat to be mine. (Apparently, men don’t have the ability to have nice handwriting… which I dont but still).

Back at Moondance, we took full advantage of the private hot tub on our balcony. The stars — oh my word, the stars. There were so many of them! There’s nothing quite like that mix of fresh air, warm water, and stillness. Jess even tried to get a photo of the night sky but ended up with 37 blurry shots of sky because of the flash but we did capture a few.

To cap off the night, we watched an episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty on the laptop, which felt oddly appropriate — two people pretending they know what “relaxing” means while sneaking in our computer so that we can still connect to our technology.

Here’s to our first night at Moondance — where the stars are strong, and apparently so is my Bingo embarrassment tolerance.

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