Settling in and discovering

My first full week in Tennessee was relatively uneventful, which is both good and bad.  The weather was pretty extreme, they broke all kinds of heat records for the majority of the week.  I was at Marion County Park, the first place I set up from Saturday to Wednesday, and pretty much stayed in the camper, tried to keep it cool enough to tolerate, and worked my day job.  I doubt if my step counter ever broke 1000 per day for the majority of my stay there.

I moved to Chattanooga midday Wednesday for an appointment with the rig on Thursday.  The dash air wasn’t working, and there was a loud squeal when it was on.  My first mistake was taking it to Camping World, I should have known better.  The tech said that one of the parts he needed in the compressor was obsolete, so sorry, good bye.  I checked in with my guy in CA and he said there was no such part (diode), to find another Truck/RV place.  I found one and made an appointment for the next week.  The weather had finally broken by Saturday, and I wasn’t planning on driving far for quite some time so it can wait.  So I spent 3 nights in the CW campground, still in hiding from the 95+ heat.

I finally unloaded the scooter while at Camping World, and ventured out to Walmart about 5:30 Thursday night.  That was an adventure as my cordless headphones wouldn’t stay connected to my phone, which of course I was using to navigate.  It took 3 times as long as it should have to go less than 4 miles, but I made it.  By the time I finished shopping it was dark, and I was having the same navigation issues.  I literally drove around for 30 minutes, in what seemed like a circle.  Finally, I put the phone in my helmet, and hoped it wouldn’t fall out, so that I could hear the navigation better.  Lesson learned, use the corded headset when on the scooter!

When I started to load the scooter back up Saturday morning, I discovered that I had left the key in the ignition and on, and had a dead battery.  So, I pushed it up on the ramp manually, a very challenging moment, but I did it.  YIKES!

Once I got everything loaded and packed up I moved over to the Holiday Travel Park, only a few miles away.  It was very nice.  The property is located on the site of a Civil War battlefield.  There are a couple monuments, one is the 84^th Indiana Volunteer Regiment.  It was peaceful, clean and close to town so quite a pleasant stay.  I was able to do laundry, have cable TV (woohoo!).

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The weather cooled down considerably over the weekend, so Sunday was finally a relatively normal temperature.  I got a little walking in around the park, gave the scooter and RV windshield a bath, made a Costco run on the scooter, and setup proper camp, then watched a bit of TV.

So, as I said, not very eventful, but that’s ok.  Until next time…ttfn.