September 21st. our first day.
Having said our good byes to Norm Gil the owner of Rainbows End campground in Reedsville and filling our LP for the last time, we head out by 9:45 AM. First gas fill was 9 miles down the road in Branch Wisconsin at the Cenex. Gas price at the time for regular was $3.69.
So, Windy after only another 4 miles, we had to tape the bedroom window shut. The wind was so strong it stucked the bedroom window open.
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| Jerry fights the Wind |
Jerry said he could do with out the cross wind.
We are riding a bit heavy this trip with all the extras remove from the old fifth wheel. We are not over weight just heavier than usual.
Still making good time even with the construction south of Milwaukee. Our I-Pass helps also, not having to stop at each toll in Illinois.
By 4:30 eastern time we pulled into the Caboose Lake campground. Our site was a nice level pull thru across the road from the lake. The lake sites remained empty so we had a great view of the lake.
We have stayed here before. The girl in the office said we would only get one TV channel. But that was not the case. Our HD TV's pulled in 7 channels. But our channel of choice was 18.1 which is CBS so we were able to watch all the new season tv shows.
The next morning we filled her up before heading south on I-65 again. The wind is much less than yesterday but still we had a cross wind. By 3:40 PM we had to change a tire on the tow dolly. The tires on the dolly were new, but the force of the wind cause the tire to wear the tread down to the cord. Of course we don't have a jack for the dolly so we had to back the car off the dolly then Jerry proceeds to change the tire. He lifted the dolly by hand and I push a jack stand under the frame. Now this was bad enough but he forget to loosen the lugs first, so we end doing this more than once.
Haven't made much headway after changing the tire. The traffic in and around Nashville was pretty heavey a few accidents and some construction in areas , stop and start and at times came to a complete stand still for a few minutes.
At 5:30 PM we pulled into Texas T campground. An always and easy set up with nice pull thru sites. We watched TV over the air even thought the campground offers free cable TV. The pictue was so good we didn't need to use the cable. We just relaxed for the night.
Sept 23 Getting late start this morning. Had to stopped at thre different gas stations before finding one that had air. Jerry fills the tires at Tennessian Truck Stop.
It rained over night, very cloudy today. Should make for a cooler days ride. There is rain in the forecast but maybe we will drive pass the storm.
The view out the front window is awesome But the camera we brought this time was not quick enough to get the scene before it was gone.
Nancy is starting to miss the fall colors of upper Wisconsin.
Now we are entering Alabama and it is starting to drizzles a little. Maybe we will not miss the storm after all.
We are going to try a different travel park tonight. It 5:20 and we have arrived at the Ozark Travel Park in Alabama.We checked in and the women from the office lead us to our site.
It is very nice level pull thru site with a cement drive and patio. On the patio is a nice clean picnic table and a bench for sitting.
There is a nice grassy area between each camp site.The bath, shower house and laudromat was a short walk from our site. I found them to emaculate. There was also a nice in ground pool. But as we only were spending the night we didn't use the pool.
There was a pond with water fountain and a water wheel. A play ground was just over the foot bridge. All in all a nice camp ground.
It was a very nice camp ground we will come here again.
It was a nice stay very quiet night.
It is 8 AM a sunny morning. Much warmer than yesterday. We are getting ready to leave Ozark Travel park. this will be the last day of our journey.
It has really gotten warm in the rig. Sure can tell we are getting close to home. The Florida temperatures have been calling us the the last week that we were in Wisconsin.
It is late afternoon now. We are pulling into the the Starke KOA, that we call home. Now the unpack will begin.
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