Happy Thanksgiving

Heres hoping everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving. Theres nothing better than getting with family and enjoying a big meal. Some will be thinking of memories past which is good to do. We may think that what we are doing today is just nothing special,but we are making memories for tomorrow.
Here Nancy and Sherry are hard at it preparing the food. We did eat a little late and it was delicious. Now after a short time I will decide on pumpkin or pecan pie. Then again maybe just have a piece of both with a large scoop of whipped cream.

Free Camping??

We went a little ways down into Florida looking for a free camping spot,that was suppose to be beside the river. We looked but we couldn't find it.

On the way down we saw a few cotton fields ready for harvest. It looks like snow on top of weeds.

On the way back we saw this Direct TV blimp. I guess it was heading to some football game that will be played on Thanksgiving day. The pilot was have a time maneuvering it in the breeze.

Great Grandson

Yes thats who that is on the go cart. Its Andy. His uncle Nick and aunt Joan gave it to him and he just loves it. He wants to stay on it all the time.
I wash the top of the motorhome,but its still dirty. It will take a couple more time of scrubbing.
Jeremy helped me with the sides. After that we went over to Mark and Sherry's for dinner.
We're just mostly taking it easy while we are here.

Jeremy's Yard

We are parked in the yard of my grandson Jeremy. He has plenty of room. This past spring I put in 30amp breaker so I could have a hook up. With electric,water here and a dump 7 miles out at a Hess station it makes a good place to park.
We met Mark and Sherry this afternoon for dinner,then went to their place for a couple of hours to visit. It was another good day today.

After getting everything secured in the motorhome and the slides put in. We said our goodbyes and was on our way south again. My brother Nick and his wife Joan are always so good and kind to us when we stay there. Hopefully when we come back up in the spring time next year we can stay longer.
We only had a little over a hundred miles to drive so we took our time. We stopped at a rest area to dump. I got out and could see why they are slowly closing the dump stations in each state. I don't know if people are dumb or just filthy. Someone had emptied their tanks and didn't use a sewer hose like they are supposed to. Not only that. They didn't bother to clean it up with the water hose that is right there. It only takes a few like this to make it look like all RVer's are like this.

New Drive way

Cement truck ready to pour cement for the nice new wide drive way at my brothers house. He still had enough room for me to park in the front of the house.

Warner Robins

After stopping in at the Georgia Welcome Center and dealing with a guy trying to scam me we dumped our tanks and continued south. we drove all the way to Macon before pulling into to a WalMart to walk a little and fill up with gas. This stop took $185.00 to fill up. The price was $2.85.9 a gallon. We got to my brothers house at 4:30. He was gone when we got here but arrived shortly with a couple of pizzas. After we ate we went down to the Kroger store to get our flu shots. We will spend a couple of days here then on to Valdosta to visit with Sherry and Jeremy and families.

On the move

After being in Pigeon Forge,Tennessee for four days we are on the move south again.
We took route 411 south for a nice slow drive. We passed some nice farm land along the way. Also the trees are still beautiful with full colors. It seems to be to late in the year for the leaves to show so much color.

After we were on the road for 5 hours we stopped to spend the night at the FlyingJ on I-75 at Resaca,Georgia. Resaca is the place where the first Confederate Cemetary in Georgia is located.

We didn't stop to look but maybe next time. The cemetary is on route 41 just north of town.

Dinner Out

Today we went out for dinner with our son his wife and son. He set us up so,once again I over ate. After that Nancy and I loafed around some. I have been wanting to redo the propane connect so I can use the 20 lb. bottles. The RV places have what is called extend-a-stay hose but it is $160.00. While over at our friends yesterday he had a bottle outside so I saw how he had it connected. Today I went to Tractor Supply Co. and bought a hose for the connect at a cost of $12.99. Boy did I feel good about that. The time it took for the conversion was 10 minutes.

Visiting Friends

We spent most of the day just sitting around. Joe,Cherisa and Haven did come out to visit for awhile. Then this evening we went to visit some of our road friends(David and Joyce Gilchrist which we haven't seen in around 3 years. After chatting a little bit we went out for dinner and then took David and Joyce back to their motorhome for some more talking. We enjoyed the time with these two long time friend that we meet in a campground in 2000 our first year out fulltiming. Our paths cross from time to time and we get together. We do keep in touch with them by phone.

On the road

After being in Kentucky the last couple of months helping as much as we could with our brother in law Jim and the family. We are on the road again. Sadly to say Jim lost his battle with cancer. He will be missed by all the family and friends. We will always have all the memories of the good times we had together.
After driving down some back roads of Kentucky and enjoying the scenery of the farms and the old barns.

We arrived in Pigeon Forge,Tennessee to see that they have finished "The Inn at Christmas Place. This looks like a nice place to stay,if you like motels. We prefer our own bed in our motorhome.

We will stay here a few days and then head down to Florida for the winter.