Hey, this place looks familiar!

Must be a dream.  I swear I have seen this place somewhere before.  Oh yeah, we used to live here!

Yup, made it home today about 2 PM.  Found a nice dry lawn to park on.  Maybe not completely dry but plenty dry enough to drive the camper out onto the back yard to park in the usual place. 

We hope you have enjoyed this blog and we'll see you back here next year!

Susquehanna Campground, Oneonta NY

It was not such a nice sunny day driving up here.  In fact it was foggy, rainy & gloomy all day.  Very tiring drive.  But uneventful! 
I went out early to find a tire store as they opened at 7:30 this morning.  Got  a new tire for the trailer and was back in camp at 8:15 and even got fuel on the way.  I put the tire in the spare tire rack so I have it in case I need it but don't expect to need it before getting home.  I'll rearrange them during the next 2 weeks of quarantine.
It had stopped raining when we got here, so that was lucky too.  The site is wet, muddy and has some puddles.  Most of the camp is wet and muddy.  Well, it's April in the Northeast.  What are we doing here again?
I hope the lawn is dry enough to park on it without rutting it up.
We went shopping at Hannaford after set up.  Needed food for the first week at home.  It was pouring rain when we came out, and of course we had left the raincoats in the truck. 
Now at 8:00 it has stopped again and the radar looks like this will last through tomorrow.  But the wind is still howling!

On the road in PA

At the grocery store

Twin Bridges RVP, Chambersburg, PA

It felt like a long 377 miles today, and it probably was.  But it was a nice day again and VA is pretty country.  There is so much history here we could probably spend a month looking around.  We traded off frequently so neither of us got too tired.
Not a lot to talk about.  We drove, we saw, we arrived.
Just one more night, geez, where did the time go?
The weather sounds miserable tomorrow.  If we're just driving in it, so what.

Bristol Motor Speedway

Various scenes along I-81 in Virginia

Hard to see, water tower painted like a basket of apples

Tonight's campground:

Shadrack RV Park, Bristol TN

Another nice day to drive over from Nashville to Bristol.  For you NASCAR fans, we are just a mile from Bristol Motor Speedway.  I bet this place is packed on race weekends.  It looks deserted now.  They are expecting up to 2" of rain tomorrow and they've evacuated all the campers from the lower level.  Just 2 of us down here tonight.  The rain won't begin until tomorrow afternoon.  We'll be long gone.  It's a long day tomorrow, drive 377 miles from TN to PA, because we can't get a campground anywhere in VA or WV due to COVID restrictions.  14 day minimum reservation.  Thanks Governors.  They don't want the Floridians just passing through, so they make them stay for 2 weeks.  Fuzzy logic to me.
Traffic was heavier today.  More trucks, not many cars and few campers on the road.  Interesting to be in the hills of TN now after so much flat terrain.  The trees in the upper elevations are still just budding out.  The lower elevations are in full foliage.
There is a nice brook called Beaver Creek running along the side of the camp.  Makes the place feel good.  They have tent sites all along the creek.



Along I-40

At camp:

Nashville I-24 RV Park

Made a nice easy drive to Nashville today.  It seems that in TN all the large rest areas on I-40 are closed.  The simple ones with no service buildings are open.  Being self contained that is fine with us.  Although it would be easier if the parking area of those rest areas were open even if they closed the buildings. 
There was some construction near Nashville so we went right through downtown on I-40.  Another day of light downtown traffic.  It was cool to get the quick tour of the city.  Saw all the signs for the great tourist sights!  Nothing open so seeing the sign was all we were going to get anyway.
This campground is in a residential neighborhood just about 20 minutes south of Nashville in Smyrna.  Of course nobody can tell the difference in cities, it's seamless suburbia.  Welcome to the east again.

At a truck stop today

Nashville camp

Lower White River RVP, Hazen AR

We have left the West behind us.  Now in Arkansas.  It was another nice sunny day and not as hot as yesterday.  It was over 90 in Dallas area so the 70s today was splendid.
Since we are no longer in the desert we are seeing lots more green.  In fact, the interstate is becoming a green tunnel again.  Looks mighty odd after being able to see the whole world around us for miles in all directions.
This park is a nice level green place with paved roads and paved sites.  No hard to get level here!  We. Got in about 3 and.  Just relaxed in camp for the afternoon.  Took a short walk around the park, that took 20 minutes at Callahan’s pace.  A few more rigs came in later.  Two from NY; but I think one of them is a workman who is following jobs.  With social distancing we don’t get to see them or find out any of their stories.





Saw this on the highway, a dump truck with a camper. Probably another worker with a mobile job.

Mega oversized load seen from camp

Stinson RV Park, Campbell TX

Hooray for an uneventful travel day!  The truck purred like a kitty all day.  Smooth shifting too.
One sight we saw today, a restaurant Steak House in front of a feed lot.  Talk about available fresh meat!  In Eastland TX.
This whole area is a return to green grass.  We have left the desert behind us.  There is even water in most of the creeks.
The highway is not very busy.  Driving through downtown Ft. Worth and Dallas was easy.  The only traffic constriction was at a construction zone where the interstate narrowed to one lane.  The express lane was closed but it didn't matter.
It is a bit hotter here in Texas.  It's 9:20 and it's still 80 degrees outside.  We have the AC on for the first time.
Photos are in random order tonight.  The laptop is acting up again so I’m doing this on my phone.

Supermoon the night after

Goats at a truck stop.  No I don’t know why.