After two full days of playing tourist we take it easy today and head over to my other cousin home Tom King for lunch at his son’s Steve house and later on to dinner at Toms favorite dinner place La Dolce Vita in Highland Park MI. On our way there we see a truck test […]
Today Emily & Mark our cousins are taking us downtown Detroit to the Eastern Farmers Market, this is another must see if in Detroit. Detroit has had a bad reputation as a city in decline but now it’s having a comeback. The Eastern Farmers Market is on the edge of downtown and it is bustling […]
We got our RV in the shop and we head off to Detroit to visit our cousins, we are excited to see them and see the sites of Detroit. My cousin Laureen and her family have always been so hospitable, this time is no different as she has our schedule all filled up with great […]
We get out early wanting to get to the factory and get the work lined up. I have been in frequent contact with our representative at Coachmen, Jason, not only to coordinate what needs to be done but all the repairs that we had to do before we decided to drive all the way north […]
We are getting closer to the Forest River/Coachmen factory in Middlebury IN, we have been fortunate in planning the route to miss MT passes and winter weather. Our destination today is to Peru IN which will put us less than 100 miles from the factory. We travel through the town of Terre Haute IN and grab […]
After our really full day in Nashville area we are continuing our trek north to Indiana to get the RV fixed. Today we find ourselves on secondary roads, which we prefer, headed to New Vision RV Park. The country road we are on we find the traffic coming to a halt, from where I can […]
Headed out in the Mini to Nashville TN today, its nice to see the sun and its only 50 miles to Nashville. I look forward to seeing downtown, it’s been over 35 years since I have been here and that was for a Carhartt meeting. We head downtown to find lots of people on this […]
Clarksville, TN is very busy and lots of construction going on, it’s very inexpensive to live here so factories love building here. We see a distillery, Old Glory not too far from our RV park and decided to go take a look, its pouring down rain and we get drenched before we get in. This […]
I’m very excited today as we head to Bowling Green, TN to see the Corvette Museum. We start in downtown Bowling Green for some lunch at Steamers, I love fish sandwiches and this was a winner. Coffee is always on Angela’s radar so we stop at Spencer’s downtown, Angela said it was good. Now for […]
We are headed to Clarksville, TN and stop in Spring Hill, TN for some BBQ at Martins that was rated very good. The building was huge and had a brewery on the other side of the building. Everything looked very good but we were not impressed, after having Lewis BBQ in Charleston, SC. On through […]
It’s clear and cold at Natchez Trace Campground (25 degrees), we always worry about our pipes freezing so we leave the doors open under the sinks and faucets dripping. The sun is warming things up as we head out to the nearest town, Hohenwald, TN a typical country farm town. We find the Southern Skillet […]
We know our trip north could be full of bad weather and we are doing our best to avoid those places, our plan is to make it to Natchez Trace RV Campground for our next stay. We cross over another pass with light snow showers and icicles forming on the rock walls as we head […]
As we leave the Ashville NC area under overcast rainy skies and the highway takes us over the Great Smoky Mountains. Being from Alaska and the NW we are certainly used to mountains and rugged scenery; these mountains don’t have the height and majesty of our side of the country but are very beautiful with […]
