On the Road Again!

 Sunday, March 24 - Friday, April 5, 2024

The day finally came - the day we left on our next adventure!  We spent the first night at Pride RV Resort in Waynesville, NC.

On Monday, the 25th we drove to Spring Lake RV Resort in Crossville, TN for two nights.  The manager gave us what she said was their most popular site, #47.  It was beautiful!  There was a pretty fountain on a little lake, a swing to sit in, and outdoor table and chairs. Very nice!

From there we went to Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, TN, site #113.  It backed up to a creek and was quite spacious.  I only reserved it for one night but I could have stayed there a few more nights.

On Thursday, March 28 we spent the night at a Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome at Pleasant Exchange Farms in Tennessee.  We didn't see any lambs but we bought some lamb/pork sausage, although we haven't tried it yet.

Friday we arrived at Village Creek State Park in Wynne, AR for 3 nights, site #53.  It was a beautiful state park with widely spaced sites.  There was a lot to do and John rode his new Lectric e-bike for 13 miles, but he said the bike trails were more suited to mountain bikes.  They also have hiking and horse trails, golf, tennis, and a list of other things to do.  I was happy sitting out and reading a book in the beautiful weather.  The one downside of the park was that there was very spotty cell service.  We could get a text out once in a while, but if you tried to do any internet it wouldn't work.

Moving on we stayed at Brecks RV Park in Batesville, AR for 2 nights, site #44.  It was in town and nothing special, and the view from our back window wasn't all that great, but the manager was really nice and everything worked as it should.  It was really windy there.  John went on the roof to tighten the screws on the solar panels and discovered the passenger side slide topper was hanging on by a couple of threads.  So he took it off and he'll order some more fabric when we get to a place where it can be delivered.  Wouldn't you know he ordered a roll awhile back to do the driver side topper and didn't bring the rest of the roll with him.  The internet service on our phones wasn't very good so we connected to the park wi-fi.  The reason we came here at all was so I could go to Marshall Dry Goods fabric store.  They have a large selection at good prices.  I bought some fabric to make a quilt for the new decor in the 5th wheel.  That was a fun morning!  :-)

Next the cold wind blew us to Lead Hill Campground in Diamond City, AR, site #A01.

I read that we should have two bars cell service, but when we got here it was no better than the state park.  We talked about it and decided that since we were going to be doing more boondocking and might have this problem again to bite the bullet and get a Starlink satellite dish.  Best Buy sells them so we drove to Branson, but they were out of them.  They said the Springfield store had some so we drove up there and got one.  Since we were within a few miles of a TA we went and got fuel, then stopped at a Culver's for lunch.  I thought of going to Lambert's, but we'd been there before and decided to skip it this time. We stopped at College of the Ozarks, a beautiful Christian college, on the way back and toured their campus.  All the full-time students work 15 hours a week to help pay their tuition, and the rest is made up from donors.  That way the students graduate debt free.  The students make things like stained glass, baskets, flour and baking products from the mill, and plants from the greenhouses, as well as other things.  I bought something yesterday and asked the cashier if she liked the college.  She said she went there and liked it so much she came back and works as the manager in the store.

They have a museum at the college with all sorts of antiques.  One of the things they have is the car from The Beverly Hillbillies.  That was fun to see!

We finished driving home and John tried to set up the Starlink without having internet.  He had to drive to the top of the hill and get internet to get the information he needed, then come back and set it up.  He finally got it so now we can check emails, send texts, make and receive phone calls using wi-fi, and make plans for where we want to go next, as well as catching up on the blog.  I have our next two stops planned but will have to check the weather to see where we'll go after that!  They say getting a campsite these days is really hard, but so far I've been able to get us a site.  It may not be the best site in the campground and I take what's available, but that's ok.  Sitting here looking out over the lake is pretty good.

Roving on...

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth".

Genesis 1:1