After the Chapter 26 Rally in Biloxi Mississippi, we headed to Natchez, one of our favorite cities. Since it has been such a mild winter, most of their beautiful azalea had already bloomed.
However, we still enjoyed driving around this beautiful city. We did take a trip to the Stanton House Restaurant for lunch one day.
The lunch was unexceptional, but the surroundings were great. I did walk through The Silver Chest, which is a store filled with antique silverware and jewelry. My husband only allowed a very quick walk through.
Some pretty alarming winds and thunder and lightning storms passed through. Luckily there was no damage, but we were cautious enough to bring in all the awnings and to keep a sharp eye out….
The people in the site next to us were towed in on Sunday and were repaired very early on Monday morning. We discovered that they were fellow Escapees and own a lot in Hondo TX. Peggy and Mike Koehler also have a blog of their RV travels, check it out at http://koehlerskaravan.blogspot.com/. We enjoyed a Social Hour with them one evening.
From Natchez we headed north up the Natchez Trace Parkway. This is also one of our favorite drives. We stopped for two nights at the free campground that is about half way up the trace. We did not have any problem finding room at the Jeff Busby State Park. We stayed for two nights, boondocking. This gave us time to rest, relax and get our 2011 taxes done and mailed. We had prepaid our Pennsylvania taxes, and overpaid. We needed to pay the Federal Government. Between the two, it came out about even. Done for another year.
We finished the Trace and stopped one night before getting to Tennessee. We arrived safely at the Overnighter Campground in Athens to spend a few days with our friend Pat Martin. We had a nice visit with her. On Wednesday we traveled up the mountain to Crossville TN. This is a town that was created in the depression era. FDR spearheaded this project. People were chosen to help build their home from native materials and then to move in and work the farm. They slowly paid of their debt with the profits from their farm. Many of these 250+ homes are still owned by descendants of the original owners.
We toured the museum and Phil walked to the top of the water tower to take pictures.
Unfortunately, when we attempted to leave Thursday morning, the RV would start but the started would not disengage. After fighting with it for a while, Phil went in search of an RV Tech. Well, he couldn’t fix it or repair it. When the starter did finally disengage, the consensus was that we should travel to our next destination and NOT shut the engine off until we arrived. This worked for us, we only needed to travel about four hours away to Marion NC, to the SKP ACRE rally. The rally was being held at Tom Johnson’s Rally Park and they have a large repair facility. So, off we went. We arrived without mishap.
It was great to be at SKP ACRE and see many of our Escapee friends. Phil was busy with the parking. I helped with registration and presented two computer seminars. It was a very busy ten days. I will post the Rally Report that I wrote for the Escapees Magazine as my next post.
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