We held up in Mountain Home AR for six nights because we had no reservations for Memorial Day Weekend and didn’t want to give up a nice campsite without any assurance we cold find something as nice for the weekend. That decision left us fewer days than planned to cross Tennessee, a very wide state, on our way to Gaffney SC. As we looked at the route on US 64 across Tennessee it became clear that there were not a lot of camping options along the way. I am sure we could have found a state park or Elks Lodge, but we needed to have water AND sewer connections because we were 6 days behind on laundry. We are getting desperate to be connected for that.

This left I 40 as our next best alternative for getting across TN. We have often said, as did Charles Kuralt, driving the interstates is the same as flying, only slower. The “amenities” at every exit are generic and there is no way, without looking at a sign, to tell where in the country you are. After 2  hours in the mountains we found ourselves on high speed divided highway for the next 4 hours and we can look forward to more of the same for the next two days. This will take us over the Blue Ridge and maybe even to Asheville for a stop, but it is a lot of super slab. This looks like a prelude to many more miles of Interstate as we make our schedule to meet up with Dan et al and on to Vermont after Gaffney.

Today’s travel was uneventful. We are in Jackson RV park in Jackson TN. I can see I 40 out the window and the car is attached and ready to roll in the AM. The RV park is a few pull though sites on the front end of a not very well maintained mobile home park. Not our first choice, but the electric works as does the water and sewer so we have what we need and can roll early in the morning – we define anything before 10 as an early departure. We left Marry Russell and Sherlock Holmes in a cliffhanger as we pulled off the highway. something to look forward to when we roll.