Category: Camping
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Reelfoot TN to Mountain Home AR
Reelfoot Lake is known for supporting a large Bald Eagle population. We get to meet a few after breakfast. We had a beautiful view while waiting for the teapot to boil. The State Park has a museum and raptor center not far from the campground. While we had seen one juvenile eagle flying over the…
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Crockett, Shiloh, and Reelfoot
Sunset precluded us from visiting the Crockett Museum yesterday here at David Crockett State Park. We stopped in on our way out of the park this morning and enjoyed the outdoor sections since we were too early to go indoors. A few birds, like this hawk, were interested in checking out the human visitors from…
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Tennessee Trains, Towns, Whiskey and Tears
Planning to visit Chattanooga, we found that roads were closed for a triathlon beginning in the park we planned to explore. Always flexible, we decided to leave the city for another time and headed west under low clouds that filled the valleys. Nickajack Lake was a fine stop to stretch and get ideas at the…
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First Boondocker’s Welcome Stop
After breakfast and conversation with Kay at her lovely home in Flat Rock, we pulled anchor and headed out across the Blue Ridge mountains towards Tennessee. The last rest stop in North Carolina was really a park with nice picnic facilities and pretty mountain views. Not wanting to take the interstate, we headed west on…
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Starting West to Missouri
Tonight we’re visiting Kay Arnold, a good friend from Michigan who preceded us in moving to North Carolina some thirty years ago. Kay graciously lets us park in the driveway of her mountain hideaway. Today marked the start of a new trip. We are wandering to a rally of Pleasure-Way motorhome owners in Branson, Missouri…
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Hurrying toward Florence
Up early, we checked the weather and decided to preempt our exploration and head for home. Hurricane Florence was predicted to be heading toward Durham. Goodbye site 127. $33 per night for electric and showers was reasonable for this interesting location. I would be remiss if I didn’t call out Dale and Laurie, the campground…
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