We started out Wednesday morning (July 30) by getting gas and were thrilled to find that we had gotten 9.7 mpg. Even though that might not sound like great gas mileage, it is really good for an RV as big as ours and that is loaded with a whole apartment full of stuff!
As we drove off, I was in the bathroom blowdrying my hair. It is the only way to travel! Except for one thing--Roger said I couldn't plug my curling iron in while I was blow drying my hair since I might blow a fuse. So, it is a great way to travel, but there are limitations!
We left Arkadelphia, AR, drove to Little Rock (and, Fran, somehow we missed the Bill Clinton library. Darn!), and went on to Memphis, TN, where we spent a couple hours visiting Elvis. It was nice to see that he was able to spend some of his millions before he died. What an estate! And, what lavish tastes he had in home furnishings and decorations. I tried to imagine actually living there, but it was hard to get a feeling of hominess. However, it was great having Elvis music playing in every room!
We were quite pleased that Graceland is equipped to park RVs, so that it was easy for us to stop for our visit. As we were pulling into the parking lot, Roger noticed that "oversized vehicles" were $2.00 extra ($10.00) for parking. As he looked down four feet to the face of the woman taking the money, he asked her, "Are considered an oversized vehicle?" She laughed and said that she would say so! The picture on the top shows Roger getting out of the RV in the Graceland parking lot. The picture on the bottom is Graceland. (Now that I have pictures flowing, I'm going to try to add pictures to the previous posts, also.)
After we left Graceland, we headed to Nashville, TN. We were planning to stop and visit the Parthenon in Nashville, but decided we didn't have time since we need to be in New York City on Saturday morning. So, we went on by.
As Roger was driving along, he came upon a half of a house going down the four-lane road with a "large load" sign vehicle behind it. The half of a house was hanging about a foot over the center of the lane it wasn't in. If I had been driving (which, of course, will never happen!), we would have followed that half of a house until one of us turned off the road.....miles and miles if needed and at 20 miles an hour if needed! But, not Roger, he just pulled over into the sort-of-empty lane and passed the half of a house. Scared the heebiejeebies out of me! Then, not more than 15 minutes later, half of the top of a windmill came along on the back of a semitrailer. It proceeded to pass us, and the huge circular bottom was about a foot from our windows. Again terrifying. I think that one even threw Roger when it first came alongside us. It was just so huge and close and going so fast. But, this traumatic experience didn't bother Roger for long. Ten minutes later, he caught up to the windmill truck and chose to pass it. Go figure!
Roger checked our odometer against the mile markers and discovered that our odometer is off by about 5%. So, even though the calculation said that we got 9.7 mpg. we really did a little better than that. Yea!
I continue to be absolutely amazed at how well the tethering is working. I can stay online for hours at a time. And, as a rule, I don't even get knocked off when my phone rings. I can actually be online and talking on the phone at the same time. Powerful little PDA I have!
North of Nashville, we ran into a heavy thunder and lightning torrential downpour. We drove on in it for quite a while, but finally decided enough was enough. So, about 9:30, we pulled into a Wal-mart parking lot in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and called it a day. Since we were stopping in an area surrounded with retail and restaurant options, we were looking forward to our first meal outside of the camper since we left. Unfortuneately, most of the restaurants were closed. So, we ate at Sonic. It was OK, but not the quality of restaurant we had in mind!
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