Sunday, April 29, 2018

CATS GETTING INTO TROUBLE.

Day 231 – Brrr….36 degrees this morning, cloudy. We did find another way to get home rather than taking I-80 east. Since we’d done that route in September, we wanted some new scenery to help with the monotony of the longer drives. An hour shorter & some of it new territory for us  & also definitely more scenic, we took I-90 northeast near the Great Lakes for the remainder of Ohio, into Pennsylvania, then we got on I-86 near the New York border just beyond Erie, PA. Interstate 86 goes southeast through that portion of upstate NY which runs above the state of Pennsylvania. It’s called the Southern Tier Expressway. It goes thru Corning, Jamestown, and at Horseheads & Elmira, it becomes NY Route 17. (We’d been to Corning once several years ago when we went to the Corning Museum of Glass while checking out Ithaca, the Finger Lakes, and Cornell University.) Anyway, that stretch in NY, from Erie, PA to Route 17, was new to us. Although the leaves were not on the trees yet, it was a beautiful drive, running along several different rivers, through the Allegheny Hills & Forest, by farmlands, colorful small towns, and across Lake Chautauqua. Fall must be unbelievable here!

253 miles (5:00)

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Day 226 – We got up to another warm day. Went to the Bakery and got two loaves of the freshly-baked Crunch Bread. They had just pulled out from the oven a piping-hot batch of melt-in-your-mouth Pecan Rolls. We HAD to get one of those. O M G !!! So yummy. Then we went to the General Store and got several more knives. (Last time we were here we bought a fantastic knife for chopping; it had been such a great knife that we knew we had to get others if we ever came back. AND they’re quite reasonably priced!) We also had time before campground check-out to drive to Iowa City to a health store to pick up some protein powder for Rob’s breakfast shakes. Back to the RV, we packed up and much to the cat’s surprise because they thought we were settling in at Amana, we departed for Oskaloosa.

94 miles

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Monday, April 23, 2018

HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY, CAROL & TED!!! ENJOY THE CELEBRATION!!!

Day 225 – Beginning of Week 33.  Mostly sunny and nicely warm this morning; wish we could stay here longer, but we have to be at Oskaloosa, Iowa Tuesday afternoon. The campground host was still not at his trailer, so while Rob was dumping tanks, getting more fresh water & throwing out the trash, I went over to the Park’s Office and paid for last night. They didn’t know he was gone, so we’re wondering who’s minding the shop now, LOL.

195 miles

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Monday, April 16, 2018

Day 218 –  Beginning of Week 32.  The weather forecast for today’s travel was adequate – cold & moderate wind, so we thought we were good to go. But when we departed the campground at 10:20 a.m., it was snowing lightly and a bit windy, 31 degrees. The snow wasn’t sticking to the ground so we thought it’d be just temporary.

326 miles

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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Day 217 – We were up and on the road at 10 a.m. this morning after dumping tanks.  It was 41 degrees, cloudy, with some wind. We don’t really have a definite plan as to when we’ll stop & where we’ll spend the night. We just entered Elkhart, Indiana in the GPS & headed out, figuring we’d stop when we were tired of driving.

251 miles

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Day 207 – We departed the campground at 10:30 a.m. after getting fresh water and dumping. It was cloudy and 42 degrees. The drive was quite similar to what we’ve been seeing lately in TN and traffic was light. Reelfoot Lake State Park has two campgrounds, both on the Lake. The North Campground was the original site of the State Park, then when they opened the South Campground, they moved the Visitor’s Center, Park Offices, and most of the amenities down there to the newer site. We didn’t know which campground we wanted to stay at, and decided to check out the more-isolated North Campground first. If we didn’t like it, we’d stay at the larger, more popular South Campground.

122 miles

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Sunday, April 1, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HELEN!  WE HOPE IT’S PURRRFECTLY WONDERFUL!

Also, to those who celebrate it, HAPPY EASTER!  And then there’s APRIL FOOL’S DAY, too.

Day 203 – Supposed to rain today, a good day to move to the next destination, a campground near to the three units within the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge. We are slowly working our way to Elkhart, Indiana, refuge by refuge, towards our first appointment for work to be done on the RV.  It was 49 degrees and cloudy at 11:35 a.m. when we left the Elk Harbor Campground, after dumping tanks & refilling the fresh water.

60 miles

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Day 198 – Rob has THE COLD. It’s not bad yet, but I know what’s coming. It’s finally stopped raining and warmed up. This morning there were 3 horses eating grass right outside our RV. There’s usually a bunch of horses in the field nearby but somehow there was an inventive horse that let his friends out through the gate. Worried that they might scatter farther and get hurt, Rob called the campground owner & told him. Eventually the owner meandered out and tried to lead the stubborn animals back to their own grassy fields. They wanted no part of it. He shrugged his shoulders and gave up.

Horses snuck into the campground, Site 37, Singing Hills RV Par, Cave City, KY

Horses snuck into the campground, Site 37, Singing Hills RV Par, Cave City, KY

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Saturday, March 24, 2018

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES. Part 3, Really?

Day 195 – THE COLD is not getting better. I feel awful today, have lost my voice & have a dry hacking cough. Woke up this morning to lousy weather, heavy rain and wind. A storm front was moving in and snow, sleet, and freezing rain were expected throughout today and tomorrow, beginning near us & becoming particularly bad southeast of us right over the Red River Gorge area of Kentucky, where we were travelling to today. Somewhere I’ve heard that “plans are made for changing” and evidently that’s true. We’ve changed our plans yet again and have decided to head south beyond the icy weather pattern to Bowling Green, KY.  There was a Half Price Bookstore Outlet there after all.

107 miles

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