Where are we today ?
Good nights sleep last night, windows open and we were both up before 6 am. Ready to compute, have our coffees and wait for the sun to come up about 7:30 we were on the road. Another long travel day for us but thats just fine. The roads are good, not much traffic, (well a little slow down in Columbus OHIO with a fender bender, no big deal) some light winds, and about two minutes of sprinkling rain.
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| 403 miles (648kms) today |
As usual we stop at pretty much every rest area to get out and stretch, and made lunch at one about noon. Really nice that we have the Sirius Satellite radio, just kinda boogie along with the tunes from the 60's that we both enjoy makes the miles slip on by.
Carried on enjoying the scenery and fall colors thru Kentucky and Tennessee travelling through the Mountains/hills. No big hurry just want to get further south and was great being able to wear shorts and t-shirts again. 75 F most of the day just perfect. We fuelled at the Flying J (Knoxville Tennessee) and gas only $2.70 a gallon (at a 15 % exchange .81 cents a liter) WOW, sure do love these prices. We saved $61.00 on todays fill up alone compared to fuelling up in Ontario.
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| Cincinnati Ohio skyline |
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| tunnel under downtown Cincinnati |
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| into Kentucky |
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| wonderful fall colors |
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| love Tennessee |
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| more fall colors |
Once we checked in here at Camp Walmart, got to read for a bit, do some computing then time to make supper. Tonight a wonderful salad again, and a baked Basa filet in the oven. Not real cool to set up my Weber Q in a Walmart parking lot ya know. Flying J Last night Walmart tonight we like to change scenery, plus do some shopping in the morning.
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| our quiet spot for the night |
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| tasty meal, hit the spot |
Make a shopping list and will hit the store before sunrise tomorrow, get what we need and on our way to Unadilla Georgia in the morning.
So there we had another fun travel day, enjoying the scenery etc... warmer weather is just perfect for us, thats why we are doing this. Not much sightseeing we want to do, have done most of it in the past 9 years, just wanna move on down the road, from one place to another.
Thanks for stopping by taking a peak again, sure do love this lifestyle, moving around the countryside.
Posted by George, a.k.a. "The Weber "Q" Man of Blogland" according to Rick Doyle.
Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Winter.
Hey George, you are not far from where our Son lives in Johnson City! Go outside your door, and yell Good Morning to him tomorrow will you? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI will do that first thing before the sun rises, hope he's up!
Delete400 miles is a long drive for you, just a regular day for us. Glad all is going well with no problems. Almost there.
ReplyDeleteWe prefer shorter travel days, but these are do able occasionally.
DeleteNow I know that you are happy when you start wearing your shorts and sandals.
ReplyDeleteBe Safe and Enjoy!
It's about time.
This is the life.
DeleteNice fall colours. Curiously enough, it got up past 20 here today. *Almost* put my shorts back on. Enjoy the trip.
ReplyDelete20 is pretty good, for this time of year there.
DeleteDarn - I didn't think about you stopping so close and I wish I had said call me. I live about 15 minutes from the Lenoir City Walmart and could gave driven over for a meet and libation.
ReplyDeleteLarry- darn is right did not know you were so close to this area, sure would have been nice to meet up. We will be gone at sun up this morning though.
DeleteIf you're going to tote around this "Weber Q man of blogland" title, shouldn't it include Walmart parking lots? :-) We're ahead of you, in West Georgia going toward Florida.
ReplyDeleteOvernight parking in a Walmart only, not a campground. Don't want to ruin the privilege like we have seen some people do. There is a time and a place for everything.
DeleteTravel safe.
Our home phone George and Susie is 478-837-7501. Safe travels in the morning...
ReplyDeleteThanks guys, will look you up.
DeleteYou are definitely moving fast. I most certainly would't set up the Weber at Walmart either. We're regular customers in their parking lot on our travels south. It's not something Walmart smiles at or other folks either.
ReplyDeleteThat for sure, we like to enjoy the convenience of being able to do so. Our house is self contained.
DeleteEven on a full travel day we don't cover 400 miles. We think anything over 200 is a long day. Enjoy the warm weather.
ReplyDeleteAs long as we are off the road around 3 pm we will do longer days, with being parked for the night with full hookups, we start and go, when the sun comes up.
DeleteI really miss the colors of Ohio's fall season. Thanks for the reminder of how beautiful the Midwest fall is.
ReplyDeleteWe do enjoy the fall colors too. This is a second round of color after Ontario a few weeks ago.
DeleteNow you are getting close to my old stomping grounds...I grew up in Manchester and LaGrange, GA.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fall colors...
This is a beautiful area around here.
DeleteEven here in Alberta gas is now down to a Dollar a liter. Not bad. Supposedly it's gonna fall even more.
ReplyDeleteIts a good year for travelling with lower fuel prices everywhere.
DeleteI would tell Craig no on the Walmart Weber. We rarely stop at them anyway, and Craig is a bit new at some of the etiquette of parkinglot camping.
ReplyDeleteWe occasionally do a Walmart when it is convenient, and is parking not camping.
DeleteI prefer the shorter travel days also. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
ReplyDeleteYep we do too and we did.
DeleteA great day - nice fall colours! We only do a couple hundred too, mostly because we have a five year old but there are days when you just need to make time. Also depends on the roads.
ReplyDeleteCouple long days then we stay here a week enjoy some nicer weather.
DeleteYou're sure making good time in getting down to the warmer weather. Safe travels!
ReplyDeleteWarmer it is no complaints here.
DeleteSirius 6 and 7 are our two traveling favorites too. Enjoyed all of your pic's. Great Wally docking dinner. Glad to hear your back to weather for wearing shorts. Have a great Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteWe have the facilities to cook so we use them, makes sense to us.
DeleteWas wonderful Carla but that was last year, we in Missouri this year, different route to the south west and some new scenery.
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