Saturday, June 18, 2022 Well, we thought the background music featured early in our trip had forever faded into silence. Little did we anticipate the clamorous coda still in store for us. About 6:30 Friday evening, only a few hours after returning home from our six-week-long trip, heavy thunderstorms blew […]

Friday, June 17, 2022 There’s no place like home.  We left Paris Mountain State Park in Greenville, SC, and arrived safely home near Apex, NC, after about a 5.5-hour drive including an accident delay in Charlotte and a couple of quick pit stops. Although our trip was an amazing adventure,

Thursday, June 16, 2022 After sleeping late, we breakfasted on a huge veggie omelet Jane made employing leftovers from last night’s dinner. We arrived at Lisa’s condo late morning where we ate a delicious lunch and dinner. In between, we talked, played games, and ate more boiled peanuts. During late

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Today, we travelled about three hours from Vogel State Park in Georgia to Paris Mountain State Park in South Carolina. We stopped and ate lunch in the RV at the South Carolina Welcome Station.  We have arrived in Greenville to pickup our black cat, Zorro, from sister

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 This morning, we departed our campsite  along the Tennessee River and headed east out of Chattanooga. After awhile, we were traveling along familiar US 64 beside the Ocoee River as we had done outbound on the second travel day of this trip. We crossed into North Carolina

Monday, June 13, 2022 This morning, we drove up Lookout Mountain to Ruby Falls. We arrived early for our 10:20 reservations and so while waiting, climbed the lookout tower for a view of the Tennessee River Valley and milled around the gift shop. Our Elcome to Ruby Falls View from

Sunday, June 12, 2022 We left Nashville this morning for a 2.5 hour jaunt to Chattanooga eating lunch on the road and topping off the fuel tank just before arriving. We are staying at River Life, a private campground with 5 sites along the Tennessee River. Our friendly host, Delon,

Saturday, June 11, 2022 This morning we once again boarded the free campground shuttle to downtown Nashville. After disembarking, we headed toward the Johnny Cash Museum. Our circuitous ramble led us through Public Square Park where we glimpsed the Davidson County Public Building and Courthouse and had views of Nissan

Friday, June 10, 2022 As fate would have it, the 2022 Country Music Association Festival (CMA Fest) is in progress this week so that Nashville is even more crazy than usual. Fortunately, we were able to secure seats in the free shuttle to downtown provided by our KOA campground. We

Thursday, June 9, 2022 Today was the shortest travel day of our trip (about 1.5 hours) and we received an email from our destination campground to not arrive before 2 pm. So, we dallied over breakfast and reading not departing  the Horse Cave KOA until a little after 11 am.  We

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 This morning, we struck out from the campground for Mammoth Cave National Park arriving with enough time before our scheduled tour to peruse the Visitor Center. There, through displays and a movie, we learned about the geology and history of this over 400 mile-long cave. At 11:45,

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 Today was the longest travel day of our trip. We spent seven hours on the road including stops and covered 350 miles. Upon crossing the Mississippi River this morning, we rolled out of the Show Me State (MO) into the Land of Lincoln (IL), then crossed

Monday, June 6, 2022 After breakfast, we set off for our reserved riverboat cruise. We parked and had some time before boarding to walk around the nicely designed and maintained park around the Gateway Arch. We boarded the Tom Sawyer which took us on a loop north on the Mississippi

Sunday, June 5, 2022 After dallying over a leisurely Sunday breakfast, we left the Topeka KOA around 11:00. Today was another six-hour driving day. Negotiating through Kansas City (metro area pop. ~ 2.4 million) was tricky especially with a detour around I-70 construction. Somewhere in that metro mess, we entered

Saturday, June 4, 2022 We departed the Goodland KOA Campground about 8:30 (early for us) but soon lost an hour as we crossed  the Sherman County Line and entered Central Time Zone. We drove steadily east on I-70 for around 6 hours including time to stop for lunch in the