Fri. Apr. 15th 2011, Do we stay or do we go?

Join us as we travel North America in our Holiday Rambler Vacationer, 

 since August 2006

       With all the severe weather coming thru this area today, and all around us we debate, make an informed decision and say, what the heck, lets make a run for it! We have a spirit for adventure.

271 Miles today

todays journey

       We had a good night at the Flying J in Birmingham Alabama. Up early as usual and on the road at 7:30am, we wanted to get ahead of and hopefully miss most of the severe weather that was forecast for our travel route. We have the tools to track the weather, internet on the road and our weather radio tells us where the tornadoes are at any given time, so kept Suzie busy all day. Other than some heavy rains a few times and slow going it was not too bad. There was severe weather warnings as in strong winds with gusts to 50 mph (90kph) and an advisory for high profile vehicles (thats us!) but it was a tail wind  and did not affect handling too bad at all, got very good gas mileage thou, (bonus!). We stopped at a few rest areas to stretch, check the weather again and make a bite to eat.

       A traffic tie up going thru Nashville Tennessee caused by an accident with an SUV laying on its side, no other vehicles around, must have really been traveling in this rainy weather to get in that mess, hope everybody was ok. We did not need to stop in Nashville this time thru, have been here many times before.

ooppss!

      After this we crossed another state line into Kentucky, checked the weather at the visitor centre then carried on to the campground.

Kentucky

       We finally pulled into Diamond Caverns Resort Kentucky  at 1:00 pm. checked in here $10.00 for the night (membership park) and settled in for the night. Once again we did not need to explore the Caverns or Mammoth Caves just down the road, did that last year. But its a nice spot to stop for the night, just off I-65 about a mile.

Caves and Caverns

Diamond Caverns

       Set up camp and tv, but found we are in a dead zone for our internet, no problem, just need to walk a hundred yards to the clubhouse (secure building) where I sat on the porch swing and get free wifi there.

drive thru site

clubhouse porch

nice rainbow

       Then supper we had some beef in a jar (our canned beef) mashed potatoes and peas, comfort food for for a cooler (50f, 9c) damp evening.

comfort food

       Then a bit of tv, keeping an eye on the weather.

during our tv show

interrupt the show for an update

       The coverage of the storms here is excellent on local tv, we just watched as the storms went around us. Then all was over by 10 pm and off to bed for a good nights sleep.

On the road in the morning to Wapakoneta Ohio for a few nights.

Thanks for joining today's adventure! All is good...

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