We woke up at 5:25, five minutes ahead of the alarm. David planned to be first in line at 7 AM at Walmart to get RBII's oil and filter changed. He is down to 35% life on the oil change before we left on this trip and it's all been hard driving, so David felt we ought to change it now a few hundred miles ahead of recommendation.
I used the time after he left at 6:45 to finish blogs, have breakfast and prepare the trailer for take off. We are both feeling like the "horses who smell the barn", ready to be home. We are heading to an RV camp in Dickson, TN, just before the 840 bypass around Nashville.
We were on the road by 9:19. Arkansas roads deteriorated near the border with Tennessee and there's a huge rerouting of I40 going on with a new overpass exit (12C) to I 40 off the I40/240 bypass in Memphis. There was a sign announcing that the new exit is open, confusing our GPS. Since I don't like driving over bridges, we changed drivers just outside West Memphis, so I could take pix of the Mississippi River and Memphis skyline. The haze is not related to smoke from the western fires as we saw so often in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Memphis' haze is pollution, pure and simple.
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| Memphis skyline with the Mississippi River in foreground. |
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| Welcome to Tennessee! |
We got to Dickson RV Camp about 3:30 and boy, do we feel, like we are back in the country. This is an old, largely permanent mobile home park. But hey, the water pressure is good, electricity reliable and a sewer connection next to our trailer which will provide for a good final drain!!! What more could you ask!! And the price is right, too.
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| Had to use 3 "chips" to get Jay level! There's a smoldering campfire from the previous tenant who apparently left just before we arrived. Maybe we'll have 'smores for dessert tonight!!! |
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| A "cottage" at Dickson RV Park. The white car looks like it hasn't moved in many months. It is full of household goods, too. |
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