Wow, have two years really gone by since we completed our big, cross-country trip? Amazing. Well, we are back on the road for the second time since then. If you are new to our blog and you are interested, you can scroll down and click on the links for "older posts" to find the beginning of the big RV adventure we took a couple of years ago--complete with pictures and some videos that our kids took.
We rented that same RV again in November of last year, and took a one-week trip down to south Florida and Key West, but I didn't add to our blog for that trip.
A couple of months ago, we decided to buy our own RV. This time, we got a brand-new "Class A" type RV called a Fleetwood "Storm". Class A's are the ones that look more like buses with a larger window in the front and no overhead bunk. Ours is a smaller class A that actually has a drop-down bunk over the cabin and two additional bunk beds in one of the slide outs that can convert to another table booth with two chairs. Even though it is relatively small (32 feet), it can sleep 10! Although, I wouldn't want to live in it with nine other folks. Now that I have figured out that I can edit our old blog, I will post some pictures soon.
We took the Storm on a test run last month. Andi was attending a summer program through Duke TIP at Texas A&M University in College Station. Alex had already left for another summer program at Vanderbuilt University in Nashville. Kirk was home from Duke with his girlfriend Sam for the summer, but they were house-sitting for a friend. So Natalie and I took Andi in the new RV to Texas and dropped her off at A&M. We had some adventures on the ruturn trip when the windshield wipers stopped working in the middle of a rain storm on a long bridge, but we made it home safe-and-sound, and eventually got the wipers fixed. That trip was only a few days, but would have warranted a new post.
Now we are on our first family trip in the new RV. Natalie, Kirk and Sam drove Natalie's Suburban to Texas to pick up Andi last week. Then Sam left to return to school in Savannah. After Sam left, the rest of us (me, Natalie, Kirk, and Andi) all piled in the new RV when I finished work on Friday and drove to Decatur, Alabama, and pulled in to Point Mallard RV park just as the light was fading. Point Mallard was an interesting place. The park was packed with RVrs, and there were kids running around everywhere. There is supposed to be a huge lazy river there, but we didn't get the opportunity to check it out. As soon as the sun was up, we set out for Nashville where we picked up Alex from his summer program at Vanderbilt. Then, after a quck lunch at Chipotle and a stop at the Cheescake Factory, we drove another 100 miles to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. Mammoth Cave was all that it was billed to be. It's quite a cave. Like a shopping mall for the Flintstones.
After a quick tour of the cave, we got back on the road and drove another 100 miles over the rolling hills of Kentucky to General Burnside Island State Park near Somerset, Kentucky. This is a nice, little state park, and even after stopping in Somerset for dinner and a supply run to Wal-Mart, we still got here with enough daylight left for me to play some guitar on the picnic bench at our campsite.
Okay, sorry if this post lacked my usual riveting wit. I was just trying summarize quickly so we could get caught up. Now that I have figured out that I can still add posts, I will get some pictures up here and do some more creative updates.
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