It's Always Something...

Finally it was Friday of our second week in Indiana and our coach was ready! We picked it up in Bremen and were on the road by 11:00, heading south toward Kentucky.  We drove about 225 miles and found a campground about 30 miles north of Louisville, KY that was semi-open.  We stopped there for the night, got some groceries at a nearby Wal-Mart and settled in for the night. Life was good!  The next morning when we brought in the large living room slide - - life was not so good!!  It’s a flat slide and it wouldn’t quite make it up the ramp to close.  Many tries, many angry looks, a few angry words, but nothing worked.  Finally, with the help of a prybar, we got the slide in and instead of heading south to Kentucky, we had to backtrack to Bremen to have this problem fixed.  We were not happy campers!!  To make matters worse, it was Saturday, so they wouldn’t be able to work on it until Monday.  So it was back to our Indiana ‘home’ – parked at Newmar again for the weekend.  We could have parked at Precision Painting in Bremen but it’s nicer at Newmar.  We had to spend the weekend with the large living room slide retracted because we didn’t want to have to use the prybar again to get it in. We have two living room slides, so we weren’t too cramped, just a little inconvenienced.

On Monday we were at Precision Painting bright and early and they did some adjustments and modifications and again sent us on our way around 11:00 again.  That night we stayed at the same RV park we had stayed at on Friday night. (Didn’t want to be too far away from Bremen – just in case.)  So on Tuesday morning, with fingers crossed, we closed up the slides without a problem and 3 days and 450 miles off our schedule, we finally crossed into Kentucky.

Our original plan was to spend 3 or 4 days touring the Bourbon Trail, a part of central Kentucky where there are several bourbon distilleries not too far from one another.  You pick up a Passport at the first distillery and have it stamped as you visit each one. Once you have visited the distilleries on the Trail, you get a special T-shirt showing your accomplishment.  Sounded like fun to us!  Some of the distilleries are large and modern, others are small family-owned ones that haven’t changed much over the years.

 Unfortunately, because of losing 3 travel days, we were closing in on Thanksgiving and also cold weather was closing in on this region – fast.  So we readjusted our plans and decided to head south and hit the Bourbon Trail in the spring.

We stopped just north of Memphis at the Mid-South Regional Naval base, where they had a small but nice FamCamp.  After checking the weather, we decided to spend Tuesday night and Wednesday here and travel on Thanksgiving day, when the traffic should be light.  Bad weather was predicted for Little Rock, Arkansas, which was to be our travel route.