It is now Tuesday evening the 17th and we will be heading out tomorrow back to the dealer for those “little” repairs. We have the RV hitched to the truck and ready to try the early morning getaway again. It is only a four hour trip to Nashville, at the speed we travel, less for some folks. The dealer promises that he has our Bay Window this time. We’ll see!
We are leaving a very nice campground, Elkhorn Creek Campground in Frankfort. It has 147 sites and most all of them were filled over the weekend. Folks come and go all the time. They boast a swimming pool, playground, WIFI, bathhouse, etc.. All in all a nice place, but just a little crowded. We took trips into downtown Frankfort. Toured the “Old Town” and the State Capitol Building, pictured here.
Those of you who have been following this saga, will be real proud of us. We have not had an “incident” all week. It has been a calm, pleasant time for relaxation with friends and family. Will and Pat Martin from Indiana paid a visit. We went to Midway, KY, had lunch and Pat conducted a nice sightseeing tour of her old home area, and lots of great conversation. Carolyn’s niece and family, Rick and Ann Stansel and son Austin also paid a visit and took us to their home and showed us the location of their projected new house to begin soon. We certainly enjoyed the time.
It is now Saturday, July 21st and we are at Poole Knobs campground in Lavergne, TN, a Corp of Engineer campground on Percy Priest Lake. The dealer was true to his work, we now have a bay window. The damage to the RV has been repaired except for the fiberglass. That is a job outside the dealer and that service is booked for weeks, so that part was temporarily patched until we can get back to the dealer. I told them it might be next summer before we return. They said, “OK, no problem.” And, they also are delaying taking our deductible until we return next year to complete the job. OK!
All is good so far, but remember that sentence two paragraphs up that says, “We have not had an ‘incident’ all week”-------NOT. The trip down from Kentucky and the dealer was fine, but then ….. there was a need to go to the bank, deposit some checks etc.. I also needed to go to the Post Office, so I opted to do this first. By the time I got to the bank the inside service was closed and only the drive-thru was available. Now, I never use the drive-thru in the truck because it seems too wide to make the enclosed space. This time, I saw a “Dully” similar to mine in the drive-thru. I thought, if he can do it so can I. Bad choice. I got in fine with only inches to spare on either side of the double back wheels. When I tried to leave….the exit was curved, not straight like where the other dully was. The building jutted out to my left side and an iron post crowded the other. The post won! Pop! A nice big hole in the right rear fender the size of a small watermelon. Vehicles don’t dent anymore, they break. This requires replacement of the entire right side of the truck bed which is molded all in one piece, of course! It cost more this way. Now that the RV is “mostly” repaired, it’s the truck’s turn. We’ll have it repaired next week. We are keeping the insurance company busy.
Now, when we get to the campground…….We checked in at the entry, the host said, “Do you realize that the site you reserved has no electric or water?” “What, no way. What I reserved was for hook-ups.” To make a long tale short, we are in a temporary site that we have to vacate on Sunday to another site, which appears to be from our visual inspection, a little tight for our rig with three slides. Our current site is uphill with a turn to the right. Not an easy approach. The exit will not be a piece-of-cake either. And so goes the time. However, we are meeting some nice and interesting people.
We will be here for two weeks taking care of doctor appointments, vehicle licensing and seeing friends and family until we head farther South and West. Tune in next week for further adventures. We’ll let you know how we fair at Poole Knobs.
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