We left Lynchburg on Saturday the 10th and made our way to the Raccoon Mountain RV Park in Chattanooga, TN.
Yesterday, we went down to the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Battlefield. After seeing a very informative film about the battle, we took the seven mile driving tour.
Yesterday was a kick back day. First, we did our laundry and then Joyce had her hair done. While she was gone I did some work on a genealogy project I’m working on. Later we went to Sticky Fingers in downtown Chattanooga for some really good BBQ. Yeah, it’s a chain but it came highly rated and it turned out to be outstanding.
October 14, 2015
Joyce and I took a cruise on the Tennessee River aboard the Southern Belle Riverboat yesterday afternoon. It was billed as a Fall Foliage Cruise but since Chattanooga hasn’t seen much “change” yet, the fall color’s were mostly just some yellows.
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| Lookout Mountain |
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| Some very nice homes were along the route. |
October 15, 2015
Yesterday we hooked up the CRV and headed down the interstate to Lake Tobesofke-Claystone Park near Macon, GA. On the way out we stopped at Walmart for some of the $1.96 diesel fuel, the least we have paid on this trip.
Claystone is a very nice county park but most of the parking sites are not even close to being level. We had to park in the back end of our site, use several leveling blocks under the right wheels, then almost max out our leveling jacks to finally get level.
October 16, 2015
Yesterday, after doing some grocery shopping we went to see the new Matt Damon movie, The Martian. Although a little hokey and predictable, it was exciting in places and the special effects were spectacular.
While here, I toured the Robbins Aviation Museum.
C-141B 65-0248
This lady was once stationed at Travis AFB, CA. I flew a lot of hours on this very airplane.
Named the Caboose because it was the last C-141 to have depot level maintenance at Robbins.
October 18, 2015
On Friday we had supper at the Fish n Pig on Lake Tobesofke and it was one of the best, if not the best meal we have had on this trip. For an appetizer we ordered the Blackened Alligator which was very tender and tasty. Joyce then ordered their Low Country Boil which she said was delicious and I had the Fired Catfish Fillets with a baked tater and collard greens. Delicious!
After a leisurely start, we made the 85 mile run south to Americas, GA yesterday, arriving at the Brickyard Plantation Golf Club and RV Park. This is a great little park with full hook-ups that is Passport America affiliated so our daily rate is $20. The laundry is great with free washing and only $2 a load to dry. The monthly rate here is $495 which includes unlimited green fees.
October 19, 2015
There are a couple of things in the Americas area that were on my bucket list so yesterday we went to check off a couple of them.
The Andersonville National Historic Site, National Prisoner Of War Museum and the Andersonville National Cemetery are all co-located a few miles north east of Americas.
The POW Museum is dedicated to POW’s from all our nation’s wars. The displays are both interesting and moving, especially the ones associated with Vietnam. Having been at Clark AB during Operation Homecoming, touring this outstanding facility brought back a lot of memories.
We then picked up a CD audio tour and then drove to several sights around the perimeter of where the prison walls once stood.
Next, still following the CD, we toured the National Cemetery. This hollowed ground contains the graves of almost 13,000 soldiers who died at Andersonville. The cemetery is still active and performs abut 100 burials a year. If interested, you can read more about the prison and cemetery here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_National_Historic_Site
One of the guys broke the rope. The guards made sure he died when he was hung the second time.
The dove figure "miraculously" on this stone the same day as the Maine monument was dedicated.
Later.
Barry & Joyce
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