Ambitious day.  I attempt to not burn breakfast in the morning and we lift off to, first, meet Eric and Barry at the Nashville farmers market and eat ice cream at Jenny’s there (truly remarkable ice cream… I regret I did not try their goat cheese and cherry flavor) and then be back on the …

Sol is up before 6 and we are back on the road with kids finishing their sleep on the back seat. Dog is happily tagging along with the plan. He is such a good sport.  Another rest stop for breakfast right after we cross the Tennessee border and into Smokey’s! We pass straight through downtown …

Dog was too excited to sleep beyond 4 am. , so he woke up Sol. I fought to stay in bed till about 6:30. Kids managed to sleep in till 7:30 or so. In need of water and coffee Sol took the trailer to the water station to fill it to the brim for the …

Original plan for lift off was at around 1pm, middle of my work day. This would put us to our first stop – Shenandoah – in the early evening. Easy breezy break into travel with enough of daylight to set up at a first camp site. Little monkey wrench in the plans: today was my …

By early afternoon Sol transitioned the toilet and bath tub from our front lawn back into the trailer. In mere 4 hours after that we cleaned it up and staffed it with 2 weeks’ worth of food, clothes, bedding, towels, dishes, dog food and meds, books, 2nd monitor (can’t code on a laptop), enough tools …

Sol finds ‘a little bit’ of water damage in the sub-flooring of our retro. Packing is on hiatus until the problem is resolved. The trailer tub, toilet and surroundings move out of the trailer and onto our front lawn.  Sol spends the good portion of the next 4 days cutting out the damaged parts and …