'23/#10 It's All About Timing

 The second leg of our journey is now in the books. It was a shorter trip but still needed adjustments along the way.I'm not as young as I once was so it takes me a bit longer to bounce back from a two day whirlwind than it used to. Then there is traffic to consider and all that comes with traveling over the road.

We left Atlanta/South RV Park by 5am so we could get through Atlanta before Monday morning rush hour. By 6:30 we were at our second Bucees of this adventure. If you've never been to a Bucees it is something to see. Fuel pumps as far as the eye can see, a convenience store with everything you need (and don't need) for your trip down the road, and don't forget the cleanest bathrooms on the highway. How many pumps could there be? Well I used pump #201 this morning and this is not the bigest Bucees we have seen.

After breakfast in the truck we got back on the road. Apparently six hours of sleep wasn't enough to recharge after the Saturday and Sunday I described in the last blog. Also, because we left so early we would get to our destination by 10am, well before check in. So we found a rest area and stopped for another roadside siesta to recharge. Two hours later we were back on the road. We checked the mapping software, Google maps, the GPS and realized we were in a different time zone.We would arrive way too early. This set our timing was off a bit. So what could we do to kill some time. Nope, not another nap but a little unplanned side trip. 

What screams American road trip more than a visit to the Worldest Largest (fill-in-the-blank). We were passing Pittsburg, TN the home of Lodge cast iron cookware and the Worlds Largest Cast Iron Skillet, factory, and museum. Most people have used a cast iron skillet or griddle or camp pot, and in the USA when you say cast iron you think Lodge, a company that has been in business since 1896. We checked out the history of the company and the manufacturing process. We also saw the record breaking skillet that weighs in at 14360 pounds and 18 feet from handle to handle!

We also checked out their store and saw tons of thing we would have if we didn't live in an RV. Cast iron is too heavy when you have to watch the weight you carry in an RV. We do have two skillets, by Lodge of course, and that is our limit.

I call this "Ham-n-Egg"

By the time we finished in Pittsburg we had killed enough time to reach our next RV park at check in time. We ran in and out of ran but it stopped long enough for us to set everything up for our overnight stay. We will have dinner tonight with Mary's high school friend and be back on the road tommorrow. We can sleep in and take our time since it will be a short trip to Kentucky. The rest of our days will be short jaunts so we can arrive at our summer destination reasonably rested.

I will sign off now so we can get ready for dinner near our home in Columbia Tennessee because....

Home is where we park it,

Frank and Mary