Monday, June 22, 2009

Day 3 - Monday, 6/22/09 ON THE ROAD

Heading to Bristol, TN through the Blue Ridge Mts. Very hard for our little RV to accelerate.

We listen to Zydeco music and the CD from our friend Dee Specker who played at our wedding. It's called "Tres Swing".

VA rest stops are very small, no vending machines, no separate pulloffs for trucks or RV's. We barely squeak into a spot.

The true vacation lunch: ice cream.

We use our Red Lobster gift card in Johnson City for dinner (thanks to one of our generous wedding guests) and buy supplies at Walgreen's.

We're staying at Lakeview RV Park on Boone Lake. It has a pool, snack bar, and pull-throughs.

For those of you not used to camping lingo, a pull-through means that our site has enough room for us to pull our RV in, while towing the car, leave the car on or take it off (our discretion), and still have room to pull FORWARD to get out when we leave. And if we leave our tow-dolly attached to our RV, we will not be blocking the driveway.

FLASHES FROM THE PAST: We made the mistake just once, long ago, of trying to back our RV out of a tight spot, and we will never do that again. The tow dolly jack-knifed and there was injury to both the back of the RV and the front of the car.

If you want a good laugh (or maybe just a good cringe), you may also imagine us trying to get through an arched cemetery gate with our RV and, halfway in, realizing that the space was both too narrow and too low.

Our water heater has been temperamental. Surprise! Now it works. No explanation.

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