When we woke up at the Cracker Barrel parking lot the next morning, we had a camper community surrounding us, with quite a few folks joining us overnight. We had to go back on ourselves for about a mile and a half, where we visited J. Q. Dickinson Salt-Works, a seventh-generation salt-making business. While West […]
Sleeping not far from a cemetery is definitely quiet, and we didn't have any train noise near us either! Rather, the din in the morning was from city worker's gardening around us, using a whipper snipper (they're called weed whackers in America?) to hack at the grass next to us. Greensboro, North Carolina We'd planned […]
Good morning, Cracker Barrel! After struggling and slightly stressing to find a place to stop for the night, and feeling paranoid about our surroundings, it was all good come morning. And, it's getting into fall! After having yogurt with fruit and granola for breakfast pretty much every day for the last few months, it was […]
Within an hours' drive from Knoxville, we arrived in the town of Sevierville, which bills the Smoky Mountain Knife Works as one of its top attractions. It's the world's largest knife showroom and store (spanning 108,000 square feet, or over 10,000 square meters!), and more than 1.5 million people visit each year! So they can […]
We got up hoping to see Rob and Estelle before they left the house to say thank you and goodbye, but alas, we were too late to see them! So we sent a virtual message to Rob to thank him for his hospitality and letting us stay with them over the last couple of days. […]
Day 206 was a lot of driving. While we had arrived in Georgia the night prior, we still had a long, long drive to get to Atlanta. We arrived in the early evening at a park in East Atlanta, in what seemed like a really nice and safe neighborhood. There were young kids running around, […]
The Florida Panhandle is in the northwest of Florida: a narrow strip of land with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, known for its beaches. We woke up and went for a walk around Corinne Jones Park that we'd parked next to overnight, but pee-ew!! Some poor wild animal like a raccoon must have […]
We'd stayed overnight next to a shrimping boat marina, but surprisingly it wasn't too busy in the morning (unless most shrimpers had left well before dawn and we'd just slept through it). We left the rural setting near Dauphin Island in Alabama, arriving soon in Mobile, a port city that's the second most-populous city in […]
Since our night was so quiet and peaceful, it was a bit of a surprise opening the RV door in the morning and realizing that the rest stop was filled with people! We soon headed to Gulfport, a city that sits on the Gulf of Mexico. We were there on the Monday of a long […]
After yesterday's "tiring tire tale", we needed a 4th person to come and inflate our spare tire so we could hit the road. It was a Sunday, but eventually someone came around 11am--and it turned out to be the father of the 3rd person who came last night operating the same tow truck company. The […]