This will probably be the last post until November, maybe even, until after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
Friday, October 8, 2021, elevation 520, miles driven 161.<\/p>\n
We’re now in Tennessee in a campground called Defeated Creek. We almost felt defeated in trying to find a spot in a COE park. This far “north” many of them are already closed, and the others were full, so full that we booked the last available spot in this CG of 155 sites for the weekend. Plenty of spots for weekdays in the ones that are open but the weekends are all full. This should be the last weekend we need to find a spot for we should be back in Indiana by this coming weekend.<\/p>\n
We had to really drag our feet getting here, something I will confess we are not very good at, especially with no places to stop and a time change in the mix, so we ended staying about an hour at the only rest stop along the way.<\/p>\n
Tennessee sure has some steep road grades, I think the steepest we went up was 8% but on a downhill, the sign said 9%, that’s a pretty steep climb, not to bad going down but the semi’s sure take slow going down, that’s a good thing. Going up sure is a pull though.<\/p>\n
Saturday morning, October 9, 2021, durning our morning walk there were a few open spots but not very many, lots of reasons people book and pay for sites and don’t show up. We could have stayed longer but would have to move spots.<\/p>\n
Obviously we have not reached civilization yet, still no Big Red or Mike Sells Hot Chips<\/p>\n
To my family who live not to far from here, this stop was on short notice, we had intended to travel a little further north but couldn’t find place to stay and with COVID still about I decided not to reach out, maybe the next time we’re in the area.<\/p>\n
A few pictures from our stay at Defeated Creek Campground and Cordell Hull Lake and the Cumberland River.<\/p>\n
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