Crossville...It Is!

We arrived safe and sound yesterday in Crossville. We are staying at the Bean Pot Campground. Traveling from Chatty to Crossville was breathtaking! We stayed off the interstate and traveled over Walden Ridge to Hwy 127 to Crossville. There were ridges (plateus) on both sides of us. The valley was awesome!! Eastern TN is just beautiful.

This town is very interesting. Cooler temps than Nashville area due to the 2000+ ft elevation.

There is a rather large RV dealership, TN Outdoors RV Center, that is next to I-40 at our exit. Also, we went to an RV living community. Quite interesting. If you have been to FL, you know what I am talking about. However, this is duplex homes with RV and vehicle garages. Very nice concept of living with common interest among the people.

Also, checked in on some other RV campgrounds. Really like Spring Lake RV Resort which is 3.6 miles from I-40 going toward Fairfield Glades. The new owners have added several sites in back of the lake. Very, very nice!

Did you know that Crossville is the "Golf Capital of TN"? It has 11 golf courses.

Also,the Cumberland County Playhouse is located here. We went there tonight and will go again tomorrow afternoon.

Enjoying our stay and will write more later.

Until then....

Travel'n On

Hi, everyone! Here we go again. What a wonderful long weekend at Chester Frost Park. This place is absolutely beautiful. The weekend was packed with families and was still a quiet place to be. Loved watching the water and the many boats, especially the jet skis. I missed having ours, but decided to sell them a couple years ago.

We took a drive to Benton, TN, where Black Bear Cove Park is located. Wanted to check it out and see if it was of interest to go there. An absolute breathtaking view of the mountains. Its location was a little off for us with some water activities being somewhat further away....like water rafting!!

We became book-worms over the weekend along with long walks which Jenny would encourage us to put the books down and "lets go walking."

We are heading out this morning. I believe we may head to Crossville. We'll see and you'll know when we get to where finally parked!

Until then.....

Chester Frost Park

As you see, we are back on the road again!

Ever been to Chattanooga? Hixson? what about Chester Frost Park? We left home yesterday, Friday, to go to the eastern side of TN in the areas of Chattanooga to Knoxville. That puts one at the western edge of the Smokie Mtns.

We are stopping at Chester Frost Park, a Hamilton County Facility, in Hixson (Chattanooga), TN. It sits along the Chickamauga Lake. All 400+ sites have view of the lake. It is an extremely well maintained park by the county with 30/50 amp and water. No reservations. We have stayed here before and this is the first time for a summer stay. Not bad at all. Our site is very spacious and full view of one side of the lake. For $18.57 night, this is a very neat park to stay in! They also have shelter houses to rent, a beach area, and of course boat ramps. Imagine that!

We have no particular plans. Sitting here sipping coffee deciding whether we want to stay in TN or venture into NC or GA. Decisions, decisions! However, we love the mountains and water. So wherever we roam to next, we will have both or one of these loves.

Until then......

TN Sunshine Travelers July Campout

DEFEATED CREEK PARK in Carthage, TN is where our chapter of Good Sam camped last weekend. This was our first time at this wonderful park. Highly recommend this COE park...many sites that were full sun to shady and very spacious. We were blessed to have our State Director and his wife, Terry & Betty Minger, to camp with us along with 3 grandchildren from two other members. Our chapter had 9 couples and that made a total of 23 people. We were blessed to have another couple camping near us to join us in some meals and our Sunday devotional service.

One thing for sure, no TWO things for sure: 1)it was HOT, and 2) the FOOD was PLENTIFUL!! We had lakeside camping with a beautiful view of the large lake.

Some of us arrive early before the weekend and some stay days after the Sunday dismissal. Good Sam chapter camping is awesome. The "3 F's" were in full force... FOOD, FELLOWSHIP, AND FUN!

Everyone left anxious for next month's camping which will be at Cage's Bend COE in the Hendersonville/Gallatin area August 15-17.

Until then.....

Back Home

What a wonderful time away over July 4th....a long weekend at Tunica, MS. The Mid-South RV Park was a great place to stay. We took books to read; I worked on a quilt (hand-stitching the binding on); and we played some Black Jack. Saturday we enjoyed Terry & Betty Minger's visit and ate a buffet luncheon at the Sheriton Casino. Great food!! The weather treated us very kindly considering we were to have rain. Jenny enjoyed her many walks.

Several RVers came in. One of our neighbors was from OK and they had their FMCA plate on the back of their rig. We looked up their names...just happened to eat breakfast at the same place the next morning. Mike greeted them by name and were they shocked! A few days later he came over to rig and ask how we knew their names. He was still in awe!! We told him we had the FMCA membership book and looked up their membership number. He laughed and said he never thought of using his book. We have fun doing that on our travels. It is fun to see the shocked faces when we call them by name! lol

We arrived home safe on Sunday, 6th. Of course, today, Monday, was back to work for Mike and back to laundry and....well, you know the rest of the story.

Our next trip out will be with our Good Sam chapter, TN Sunshine Travelers, on July 17-20. So, until then......

Been on the Road Again, Again, and Again

I guess I better update my travels since I last posted on Father's Day. As I last wrote we were in Pigeon Forge for a week. Celebrated our 41st Anniversary there and went to the Smith Brothers Show. It was a great time and we stayed at River Plantation....great RV Park! Left out on Thursday, 6/19, for home to go to our granddaughter's dance recital at TPAC, downtown Nashville. To her surprise she received an award placque in Hip Hop!

Next day (Fri), we became restless because it was the end of our interrupted vacation. So we started thinking...thought some more...and...came up with a plan! Let's take off to Tunica, MS, and see the casinos and check out the RV Parks. So we called our friends, Vic & Rita, early Sat. morning and proposed the plan to them to ride down with us. We met them by 1:00 p.m. and we were OFF!! Had a great time and of course we tried to find an excuse to call in sick for Monday morning. Couldn't come up with a good game plan!

Next on our agenda was to plan for next wkend. This came about because our son traded in his TT for a Class B (looks like a Class C) and wanted to take off and see what he could put on the "punch list". Ha! So we made reservations at Caney Creek RV Resort in Harriman, TN. We stayed there going to Pigeon Forge and liked the Resort enough to go back. With the pool, that kept all the grandkids (4) entertained. A very pleasant wkend.

That now puts our June travels to an end. We were out in the RV for 23 days in June. WOW! We loved every minute of it. I keep a calendar in the RV and post our days out and thus far we have logged 90 days out this year at the end of June.

Well, we are now looking at the 4th of July wkend. Just had to plan something again. RIGHT now, Wednesday, July 2, we are parked at Mid South RV Park in Tunica, MS. Looks like we'll log another 5 days on the calendar! We put out a fleece call to some friends to come join us....we'll see who shows up! Don't you love "last minute" notices!!??

I will do my best to post again soon. BUT, at least know that we are somewhere out there!!

Until then......