At The Finish Line

We continued our slow trip to Missouri, making another two day stop in Illinois at the Crab Orchard NWR to visit with our friends Denny and Mary.  They work with us at the J. Strom Thurmond COE project in the winter months and volunteer at Crab Orchard for the summer.

We had a great visit and took a trip to the Giant City Lodge for an all-you-can-eat chicken dinner.  The lodge was built by the CCC during the 1930's.  It is an amazing building that has withstood the test of time.  To think this stonework was done without modern tools by hardworking young men.

 

There is a monument to those hardworking young men whose sweat and hard labor has given us so many wonderful parks and places for us to enjoy today.

 

 

After our two day stay, we hit the road, traveling just a short 175 miles to see our four granddaughters that live in Missouri.  The trip went well, but we're still plagued with that alarm whistle that goes off whenever it wants to, caused by that defective wiring harness.  Thank goodness it is intermittent, and we have a radio that we can turn up to help drown out the noise.  We won't be able to get to the Freightliner Service Center in Gaffney, SC until mid September to get it repaired so I'm going to see if I can get the new wiring harness sent to me and install it myself.  It's not a big job and the peace and quiet will be worth it.

 

We have adjusted our travels, our plans to go to the Winnebago Factory Service Center fell through, the earliest appointment we could get was for mid August, when we have to be in New Jersey.  I have to figure out if I can do the work myself on our large slide, the plastic slide guides are cracking and need replacement.  I have to research if there is a way I can do this myself without heavy lifting equipment.  Or I can put it off until a later date, but the cracks are worrying me.

 

However, it's not all bad.  We are looking forward to a great month with the girls.  It's worth it all.

 

 

Me and 1 year old Charlie (Charlotte), my new BFF.

 

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PS:  Sorry if this post doesn't come across properly, Live Writer is out of sorts and I had to do this post on Blogger.   :c(

Never Forget

 

                

 

                

Holiday Weekend Travel

We try not to travel on weekends, period, because many repair services that one could potentially need are unavailable.  So how is we we’re not only traveling on a weekend, but a Holiday Weekend?

Sometimes priorities take precedence over smart practices and there are four lovely granddaughters anxiously awaiting our arrival in Missouri for the next month.  So the heck with weekend travel, we’re going to push on through.

Of course, a holiday weekend means a scarcity of campgrounds, house bound folks use this opportunity to get moving and enjoy the great outdoors.  Unusual for our point-to-point style of travel, this month long trip for us has found us traveling shorter daily distances and making good use of our Passport America membership.  We’ve been extremely pleased with the campgrounds we’ve used that have been very nice, while saving us a great deal of money.

Tonight our luck ran our and no campgrounds we looked to stay in had any openings, including an Escapees campground.  But we were not deterred and are tucked in for the night at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Tennessee.  The management graciously gave us permission and we get to enjoy not only dinner but breakfast, too.

It’s a tough life we lead.  :c)

Around five hundred miles left to go, but we’re going to do that over two (maybe three!) days, it’s almost like I’ve been cured of the PDD driving style…

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