Monday, October 24

TRAVEL DAY

From: Lake Wappapello State Park, Ridge Campground, Williamsville, MO.

To: Paris Landing/Kentucky Lake KOA Holiday Campground, Buchanan, TN.

Day 378 – At 7 a.m. this morning it was 55 degrees and cloudy. The girls were not happy about leaving, and truth be told, neither were we. This campsite always feels like home to us.

178 miles (3:50) 60443-60621
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Thursday, March 21, 2019

REELFOOT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Day 69 – Okay, so we didn’t float away last night, but it was pretty muddy out this morning. LOTS of birds flitting about, got the girls all excited. It must be mating season; the colors of the birds are much more brilliant than usual. If the sun shines today, we may get some really good pictures. But of course, the birds will need to be still at least for a few seconds.

Eastern Bluebird, Reelfoot Lake State Park, Tiptonville, TN

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RECAP – End of Month 7, Trip #3

Seven months on the road, next month at this time we’ll be back home. One month ago, at the beginning of our sixth month straight on the road, we were at Zion National Park in southwestern Utah. It was high desert country with incredible red rocks & cliffs all around us, dry and warm and dusty. We are, one month later, in northeastern Arkansas, flat farmlands with flooded fields & rushing muddy rivers, Quite a difference and oh my, the beauty we’ve seen. Utah was outrageous, so full of color, but we had to leave due to winter storms coming in from the north. We will SO be coming back to see more! New Mexico, only a small part of it, and we spent so much time running from the high winds. We will come back here, too. Up into the panhandle of Texas, and as quickly out of Texas into Oklahoma. Buffalo and Texas Long Horns at Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, never to be forgotten. Playing hopscotch from one Wildlife Refuge to another throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas. What a great month it was. We travelled 2,408 miles in the RV last month, lots more miles if we add what we travelled in the car, too. We stayed at 14 different campgrounds in UT. NM, TX, OK, & AR. During month #7 we’ll be visiting relatives in Missouri & Kentucky, and after that we haven’t decided yet whether we’ll go back to Georgia to visit the alligators again, or maybe go back to Louisiana – both two favorites from last year. Or maybe we’ll do something new, like the Great Smoky Mountains. Mostly it will depend on the weather. We’ve found weather conditions play the biggest factor in where we go and when. We do know that we are enjoying every minute of our adventure and cannot wait to see more.

Monday, April 9, 2018

KAYAKING AT THE NWR.

Day 211 – Beginning of Week 31. Got up this morning to a sunny day, 30 degrees. It just may warm up enough for us to go kayaking. Tomorrow we leave Tennessee, starting our journey north to get the work done on the RV. We’ll be going back to Wappapello State Park and Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Missouri. We were only there for a short visit about a month ago when we stopped there on our way to the St. Louis area. We decided to take a few spare days and go back again on our way north.

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Sunday, April 8, 2018

REELFOOT LAKE VISITOR’S CENTER, LAKE ISOM NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, ETC.

Day 210 – Brrrr, 22 degrees this morning, partly cloudy and windy. But the heat is working in the RV. YAAAA. We had another Wildlife Refuge to visit today. The weather is supposed to be warmer tomorrow, our last day here, and we wanted to go kayaking, weather permitting. We wanted to finish visiting all the places in this area  so we could determine which place would be the best place to go kayaking.

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Saturday, April 7, 2018

Day 209 – 28 degrees when we woke up this morning, and snow on the ground. And it kept on snowing for a couple of hours. In addition, we didn’t have heat last night so it was quite cold in the RV.  Rob installed the new control board and we soon had heat again. But when he went outside to do that chore, he noticed that we had a flat tire on the Honda. Another one. Mr. Fix It was busy this morning. Meanwhile, it stopped snowing and the sun came out.

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