Showing posts with label Raccoon Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raccoon Valley. Show all posts

11/22/2012

November 21-22, 2012 Happy Thanksgiving at Raccoon Valley SKP Park

   182047_478895585466946_1223465747_n

We have enjoyed our time here at Raccoon Valley SKP Park – did I say how much I love SKP Parks – :-)).  We got the motorhome cleaned – inside and out; did laundry (love doing laundry at the SKP Parks – clean and good prices), updated the blog, enjoyed meeting more SKPs at Happy Hours and dinner and just taking it easy.

Our site:

11-22-12 Raccoon Valley SKP Park 003

Our Thanksgiving companions:

11-22-12 Raccoon Valley SKP Park 005a

So tomorrow we will continue our journey south and west to our lot in Casa Grande, AZ.

Stay tuned.

3726_10151233897042973_506820747_n

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends, family, and blog readers.  Smile

November 19 - 20, 2012 Travel to Tennessee

Today we left our cozy spot at Delaware Seashore State Park and headed south thru the DelMarVa Peninsula (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia):

Maryland:

 11-19-12 B Travel MD Easter Shores 005

 

Lots of chicken farms and chicken plants on the eastern shores of Virginia:

 11-19-12 C Travel VA Easter Shores 006

Yep, did you see those shore birds on the top of that tank at the Perdue facility?  Hmmmmm….are you thinking what I am – LOL???

Isn’t this an incredible house – their backyard is the Chesapeake Bay – WOW!:

11-19-12 C Travel VA Easter Shores 009

Over the Chesapeake:

11-19-12 D Travel VA Chesapeake Bridge Tunnel 011

Under the Chesapeake:

 11-19-12 D Travel VA Chesapeake Bridge Tunnel 024

11-19-12 D Travel VA Chesapeake Bridge Tunnel 025

The waves were really choppy and high – there was actually a small craft warning for this area of the Bay when we went over.  That is Virginia Beach in the background:

 11-19-12 D Travel VA Chesapeake Bridge Tunnel 035

  We continued west thru Virginia:

11-19-12 E Travel VA 004

COTTON – we are in the south now – :-))):

11-19-12 E Travel VA 005

Monday was a long travel day for us – but what a beautiful sunset in North Carolina:

11-19-12 F Travel NC 008

Our initial plans were to stay at a Moose Lodge – turns out that we arrived and found a “For Sale” sign on the property.  I called the number and no answer so we moved on.  The Wal-Mart in Winston-Salem said “NO” to overnights, even though they are listed in a few places as an overnight.  At that point, it is 7 PM, we are tired and we start to call places.  The manager at the Wal-Mart in Mocksville told us to “Come on in, we would love to have you stay” – so that is where we stayed (and spent some money in his store too).  We are thinking now that when we do long days, to call ahead to the places we may stay – just in case.

Tuesday morning, we were on our way towards Tennessee thru the mountains of western North Carolina:

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 002 

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 011

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 015

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 016

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 022

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 023

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 024

Into Tennessee:

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W TN 007

11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W TN 008  

We made our way to Heiskill, Tennessee – north of Knoxville, where we are staying at an Escapee Rainbow Park for a few days.  It is always good to stay at a SKP Park over a holiday – :-).   Once we settled in and did a few things, we went to Happy Hour and met a few people in the park.  Afterwards we went into Knoxville for supper and to see the movie Lincoln.  Great movie!

I will leave you with one more from the road picture:

 11-20-12 A Travel I-40 W NC 009

 

 

Stats:

11/19/12

Miles Traveled: 454 miles

Routes Traveled:

Delaware: SR-1; SR-54; SR-387

Maryland: SR-367; US-113; US-13

Virginia: US-13; Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel; US-13; I-64; I-264; US-58; I-85

North Carolina: I-85; I-40; US-601 – Stopped at Mocksville, NC  -  Wal-Mart

11/20/12

Miles Traveled: 244 Miles

North Carolina: US-601; I-40

Tennessee: I-40; I-640; I-75; SR-170

ENJOY TODAY!