On the road - Day 2

Weather notwithstanding, we were able to leave home on Sunday morning.  

After 4 years, we still often learn new things when taking out the camper – this trip started out with such a lesson: an airstream is REALLY impenetrable, if you are locked out OR in. When I went out Saturday to finish packing the trailer for leaving, the door lock was frozen shut.  John melted the ice with a hair dryer and all was ok…..until later, when it froze shut while he was inside the trailer, and I was in the house, oblivious to John being stuck inside the camper. : )  Hair dryer to the rescue again – this time used from the inside. 

Spent Sunday night at a KOA campground in Louisville, KY; nothing fancy, and our water was still not connected, so had to use the campground restrooms this morning, but they were clean and pleasant.   After pulling into the campground,  we celebrated the start of the trip with a spot of whiskey, then went for a nice long walk in a park next to the campground to stretch our legs and enjoy the cold but sunny day.  For dinner we had tortellini with home-made spaghetti sauce which John cooked while we were home and brought with us in the camper.  Enjoyed the meal and a lovely NZ wine that was new to us: "Zeal”. It was really very good - we'll have to look for it again.  Cleaned up dishes with water brought with us from home and heated on the stove; it will be more convenient once we have "de-winterized" the camper and have full water hook-up again, but this wasn't bad.  This morning started off toward the next stopping point, a Good Sam's campground in Lenoir City, TN, a bit north of Chattenooga, our last stop before reaching Nancy and Lynn in Helen, GA tomorrow.  

Evening: Despite all the notes-to-self about being packing, I found that I'd left behind the cord to sync my iPhone with my Macbook Air, so had to look for a Best Buy along the way to get one.   Today’s drive was a pretty one, on hilly roads.  Fortunately all the roads were dry, so pulling the trailer was no problem.  The dry winter the Midwest has experienced so far made itself felt even more when we saw more snow on the ground in Kentucky than we did in Indiana - an unusual twist.  We made a brief stop in the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea, KY.  It has such lovely handmade items, ranging from wooden bowls and boxes to ceramic pieces of all kinds; knit, quilted, and woven things; and of course jams, condiments, and candies of all kinds.  This is a really pretty building made of limestone and large wooden beams, a nice place to stop and stretch our legs while enjoying the displayed work.  Got to our campground late afternoon and flushed the water lines.  Found some problems, fixed most, but not all - will work on those in the next couple of days.  For now, we're cozy in the camper, with a potential ice storm predicted for tonight.  (Remember that ice story that I started with? We're armed with quilts to stay warm and a hair dryer to bust out of here if necessary in the morning - hee hee!)