Friday 13th !!!!!
Just 127 miles journey today and via a pretty easy route recommended by the RV park owner, agriculture and very neat communities....
We pulled into Walmart Springfield parking lot at 11.30 to meet up with Ken our RV mobile repair man and true to his word he has the correct unit...
Temperature is triple figures...Ken is on the roof assisted by his son Kyle, I was too hot and bothered to even think about taking a photo which of course I now regret !!!! Great guys, right from the get go when we spoke to Ken a couple of days ago he was confident of getting us "fixed up".....just as well as we were ready to decamp to motels.....They had a big diesel generator to test the new unit and let it run for a while while we had a chat about travel.....we had to smile about it being fixed in a grocery store car park, can see that happening in Tesco or Sainsbury's....
We are over a thousand pounds poorer (we knew that from the moment the old one went kaput) but hey ho all part of home owning and once we get to RV Express 66 in Marshfield 20 miles farther along the I-44 from Springfield we set up camp and start the cooling process....
So Friday 13th was actually a good day......
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| Saturday 14th July... This and next pic interesting sky at our RV Park, RV Express 66, Marshfield Missouri....this is our second stay here (2016) small and next to the interstate but our kind of park.... |
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| Sunday 15th July... This is a connection road from I-44 to the US60 and just called Road A.... We did check out the road yesterday on our free day at Marshfield for towing along as a big "dip" and concern about bottoming out but it knocks 50 miles off the route and all is well....... |
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| It's a longer drive today but very pretty, rolling hills, farms and a very nice rest area for our coffee and cookies, then on through The Mark Twain National Forest and The Ozark Mountains & Plateaus.... The small communities were lumber based towns.... |
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| After Poplar Bluffs the scenery changes back to agriculture, soyabean, corn and rice..... We had a slight hiccup as the exit ramp to access the RV Park at Sikeston was closed due to construction but good detour and arrived at our RV Park and set up camp before a late afternoon thunder storm and heavy rain... We have a day off tomorrow but do check out a route to avoid the construction... We do have to laugh as everywhere we have stopped on the this road trip we are told that it's unusually high temperatures for this time of year !!! The weather has gone crazy as UK are experiencing the hottest summer since 1976 the year Yorkieman and I met...... |
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| Tuesday 17th July... And once more on the road again and heading east to Clarksville, Tennessee... Only 152 miles along the US60 east but an interesting and at times stressy drive... Sadly this photo doesn't show that the road for some miles is "raised" as in a levee...we are near the Mississippi River.... |
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| The first of two narrow bridges....this one across the Mississippi River and into Kentucky... |
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| The Mighty Mississippi.... |
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| This is a busy truck route and we met several on this bridge, hence I missed taking a photo of the Kentucky State Line board, I needed to be lookout man for how close we were to the railings !!!! |
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| Phew we made it across without any scrapes !!! |
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| Yikes another one, this time across the Ohio River.... |
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| I did manage to multitask and snap a couple of pics of the barges... |
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| And another one but this time "normal" road width but one lane closed for construction !!!! |
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| We passed through some small towns and at times not sure we were on the right road but we made it to Paducah and the I-24 east.. |
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| Well this has certainly been a drive of several parts today, interesting, pretty and stressy.... The last 40 miles of the I-24 to the Tennessee Border was the most awful road surface and serious concerns by us for the tyres !!! However we arrived at the Tennessee Welcome Centre in one piece and time to take a breath before the couple of miles to our RV Park in Clarksville and our home for the next 2 nights.... Our song for the day was Kentucky Bluebird...but now we are here it has to be Last Train To Clarksville.... And of course they say that the temperatures are unusually high !!! For now until the next post, it's time for a few bevvies... Cheers from Yorkieman & Mrs Blogger..... |
Hi Folks! Apologies have been off line a bit recently, so have missed all your tribulations with a/c, glad you now have fixed. Could do with some of that here, my word its been warm, shades of '76. Went to Devon at weekend to see Clare who was competing in a Dressage regional final, she did really well, beat some professional riders and missed out on the nationals by 1 mark!! Grrrr. But maybe a wild card, who knows. Otherwise all well as we cope with the heat!
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Well done Clare and fingers crossed for a wild card....
DeleteWe met in 1976 !!...hot stuff...
Continue to enjoy the summer...
M & S xx
Hi Sue + Michael.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a few trials on this part of the trip, fingers crossed all plain sailing from now on.
Hope you enjoyed your bevvies on arrival at Tennessee centre.
Spoke with Jim Bloor yesterday ( well he spoke , and I tried to get a word in ). Said he was looking forward to 20 year club do.
Cheers Ann + Dave
Yes, it was an interesting drive but not without it's moments !!!!
DeleteYou made us smile about Jim.....
Continue to enjoy the glorious summer and the sundowners....
M & S x