TRAVEL DAY
From: Paris Landing/Kentucky Lake KOA Holiday Campground, Buchanan, TN.
To: Singing Hills RV Park and Campground, Cave City, Kentucky.
Day 382 – At 8 a.m. it was 47 degrees out and partly cloudy, no wind. We departed the KOA Campground at 10:20 a.m. We drove northeast from the campground and some of the trip was in Tennessee; some of it was in Kentucky (KY).
TRAVEL DAY: BATAVIA, OHIO TO CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA.
Day 31 – It was 45 degrees and cloudy at 7:30 a.m. We relaxed in the morning, then packed up to leave. We departed East Fork State Park at 11:25 a.m., after dumping tanks.
BACK ON THE ROAD & INTO NEW TERRITORY.
Day 82 – Today we’re driving a little ways south and then east. Once beyond Louisville, we’ll be on roads where we’ve never traveled before. We love going to new places. We were up around 7:30 a.m. It was sunny out with no wind & 40 degrees. The girls were not happy to leave. They’d settled in so nicely here.
143 miles, (2:45), 36780-36923
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
Day 197 – Beginning of Week 29. Feeling just a little more energetic today, finally. Pam was still quite sick, confined to bed, cancelling work. We drove to Bowling Green and visited the Half Price Bookstore Outlet, picking up some more inexpensive books. Bowling Green is a large city, but nice, with rolling hills. Because it’s farther south again, the trees and bushes were greening & getting their flowers. The grass is green. Pretty. Plenty of farmland. Horse country, too, with the picket fences. We like Kentucky.
Day 196 – I slept in and meanwhile Mr. Fix It had been busy. I got up to find furnace parts all over the kitchen floor. Yep, the original thermostat that had been misbehaving was still not working properly and it was cold inside. Rob replaced it with the new part we had bought in Louisville. Unfortunately that didn’t solve the problem, so we were on to Plan B. He’d done a lot of research on the internet followed by opening up the furnace to see if he would be able to troubleshoot the problem further. Turned out to be very difficult to access the components without completely removing the furnace from the RV. But the symptoms seemed to indicate that the controller board was not working properly. Rob found one on Amazon that could be delivered to an Amazon Locker in Nashville, TN the next day, so he went ahead and ordered it.
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
Day 72 – Up and out early to pick Pam up for kayaking; the dogs were happy to see us and wanted to come along. We’d decided to rent a kayak for Pam from Dark Star and kayak from there. She had never been kayaking before but took to it immediately. We went out for several hours on Harrod’s Creek which leads directly to the Ohio River on one side and meanders for 26 miles the other way. We passed by small marinas, nice homes and condos on the creek, and under several bridges where swallows were nesting. We encountered many turtles sunning themselves on rocks and logs. The area was heavily tree’d which kept us nice and cool. Bird-wise we saw Canada geese, a great blue heron and a little blue heron.
Day 71 – More of Louisville begins Week Eleven. On the way to Pam’s we stopped at a little coffee place in Indiana near our campground. I wanted to mention it as a reminder to us to go there whenever we visit Pam – Coffee Crossing – good service, good coffee, and a cinnomon roll with orange cream icing that looked delicious (we didn’t get it but will next time). She wasn’t home yet when we arrived at her house so we visited with the dogs until she got home. They are so cute.
Day 70 – Nice, quiet campground with lots of trees. We hung out in the RV until 11:30 a.m. and then took our first trip driving ourselves to Louisville. It’s a busy city on the Ohio River, and Indiana is on one side of the River with Kentucky on the other side. We had good directions from Pam and didn’t get lost.
