Photos of The Willows in Dothan

Monday morning Mike went over to our storage unit and got our 40# propane tank. He took the 40# and a smaller propane tank to Tractor Supply and had them filled ($2.29 a lb).He also connected to the water and sewer hook-ups here.

We decided to go to Five Guys for lunch and then we drove over to Sam's Club and did some shopping.

We just relaxed the rest of Monday afternoon. Monday evening we walked over to W.T.'s house and paid $60 for our campsite for this week. We visited a while with W.T. and Glenda before coming back home to watch the Presidential Debate.

Today was busier than yesterday. Mike took Tinker over to For Paws Only this morning for his bath and grooming appointment with Peggy.

Mike took some photos this morning of our campsite and The Willows.

From The Willows in Dothan

From The Willows in Dothan

Mike had a doctor's appointment this morning at 11:00 and stopped to

Arley to Dothan

After breakfast this morning, we began to break camp. We took our time this morning preparing to leave since check-out time for RVs at Hidden Cove is 11:00 and we only had 166 miles to drive today to Montgomery.

We left Hidden Cove at 10:40

From Arley to Dothan

and drove south on CR-41 where we crossed over Lewis Smith Lake and saw this campground on the right on the lake.

From Arley to Dothan

We continued south to Jasper and then south on US-78 where we passed

Campground Photos

Tuesday morning we realized we hadn't taken any photos of our campsite here at Hidden Cove, so Mike took some that afternoon.

From Arley, Alabama

From Arley, Alabama

We are right across from the campground's play ground and the building in the background is the bathroom and laundry. The bathrooms are clean

Breakfast at Chef Troy's & the Old Houston Jail

Sunday when we checked in at Hidden Cove Outdoor Resort, Susan recommended Chef Troy's Talk of the Town Restaurant in Houston for breakfast and gave us a copy of their menu. So on Monday morning we drove 11 miles north to Houston and arrived at the restaurant a little after 9:00.

From Houston, Alabama

There were only a few people in the restaurant that late in the morning, so we had no problem in finding an empty booth. We both ordered the Denver Omelet (grilled onions, peppers, ham, tomato, bacon, sausage, Jack & cheddar cheeses) with a biscuit ($6.99 ea) and Mike also ordered a full stack (3) of pancakes ($4.29). The pancakes were so big

Mt. Juliet, TN to Arley, AL

It was overcast and in the mid-60's when we got up this morning. According to the weather radar thunderstorms were heading towards Nashville later this morning, so we started breaking camp a little sooner than we normally would. Since we were parked near the campground exit and would have to drive back around through the campground to go to the dump station, we decided to not empty our holding tanks. We hadn't used that much water during our stay here and a lot of RVs were leaving this morning and there was probably a line of RVs waiting to use the dump station.

We left Cedar Creek Campground at 10:00 and drove 11 miles south to I-40 and then south on I-24 to I-440 west and then south on I-65. The trees are beginning to get their fall colors and took this photo on I-65.

From Mt. Juliet to Arley

We crossed the Tennessee state line into Alabama at noon and stopped at the Alabama Welcome Center at Ardmore a couple of minutes later. You can't miss noticing the Welcome Center because of the Saturn 1B rocket at the entrance to the welcome center.

From Mt. Juliet to Arley

We pulled into the dump station at the welcome center and emptied our holding tanks

From Mt. Juliet to Arley

and then parked

Antique Archaeology & Tennessee State Museum

We drove the 24 miles into Nashville this morning

From Nashville

and passed by the Old Customs House.

From Nashville

We arrived at the Marathon Motor Car building at noon and there was a line of people waiting to go into the Antique Archaeology store.

From Antique Archaeology, Nashville

There was a doorman out front letting people in to the store a few at a time and after about a 10 minute wait it was our turn to go in. The doorman took our photo in front of the store before we went in.

From Antique Archaeology, Nashville

Visit to the Wilson County Archives in Lebanon

Thursday morning I gathered up our laundry and drove 8 miles south to the laundromat in Hermitage. It's a large laundromat and there were only a few people there when I got there.
The regular washers cost $2.25 a load and the dryers cost 50¢ for 8 minutes. It cost $16 to wash and dry the 4 loads of laundry I had.

There was a Kroger grocery store in the same shopping plaza as the laundromat and I stopped in there to get a few groceries before driving back to the campground.

I spent the rest of Thursday going through the genealogical notes I made Wednesday at the library and I made a list of documents and records I needed to search for today when I went to Lebanon.

We had a good hard rain last night and it woke both of us up a couple of times last night. I set the alarm for 7:00 last night because I wanted to get an early start this morning. It was 57° and just lightly raining when I got up this morning.

I left the campground this morning at 8:15 and drove 18 miles to visit the Wilson County Archives in Lebanon and arrived there a little after 9:00.

From Lebanon, TN

I met Thomas E. Partlow when I entered the Archives and told him the families and the time frame I was researching. Thomas is a co-director

Lunch & Genealogy Research in Mt Juliet

It was 57° this morning when we got up. We took Tinker for a walk around the campground this morning

From Cedar Creek Campground

and saw this Great Blue Heron standing on the lake shore.

From Cedar Creek Campground

There is a young family in the campsite across from us and we stopped to ask them about their travel trailer - a 1963 Shasta - really neat looking.

From Cedar Creek Campground

We left the campground at 11:30 and drove 9 miles south to Mount Juliet

Fort Campbell to Cedar Creek Campground

It was 41° when we got up this morning and with the wind chill it felt like 39°. Since we didn't have far to travel today and check-out time is noon, we took our time breaking camp. We left Fletcher's Fork Campground at 11:30 and drove east to I-24. We drove south on I-24, crossed the Red River

From Ft Campbell to Cedar Creek Campground

and headed towards Nashville.

From Ft Campbell to Cedar Creek Campground

We exited I-24 at exit 40 and drove east on TN-45 and stopped at a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Store at Madison to fix lunch at 12:30. After lunch I went into Wal-Mart to buy a few items and paid with our debit card so I could get some cash.

We left Wal-Mart at 1:15 and continued east on TN-45 to Shute Lane and then north on Saundersville Road near Old Hickory Lake.

From Ft Campbell to Cedar Creek Campground

We drove about 7 miles east on Saundersville Road through several

Visit to Pratt Museum at Fort Campbell

This morning we drove on base to go to the Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum.  We parked the car at the museum and walked across the street to see the aircraft on display at the Memorial Park

From Fort Campbell

From Fort Campbell

and the many unit memorials.

From Fort Campbell

We then walked back across the street to the Pratt Museum.

From Fort Campbell

The museum shows the history of the 101st Airborne Division, the “Screaming Eagles,” from the 1940's to the present with displays starting

Sunday Breakfast, Commissary Shopping & Library Research

It was a chilly 45° again this morning when we got up. Instead of fixing breakfast this morning, we drove on to base to have breakfast. The Burger King is closed on Sundays and it was too early for the Food Court to be open. We stopped at the Firestone Tire Store and they told Mike to go out Gate 4 and that there were several places that would be open for breakfast.

We saw G's Pancake House and decided to stop there for breakfast. We both ordered G's Super Breakfast. Mike ordered pancakes with his and I ordered biscuits and gravy with mine. Everything was great and much better than a breakfast at Burger King.

After breakfast we drove back on base and went grocery shopping at the commissary and was it ever busy this morning.

We got back to the RV at noon and after putting the groceries away and taking a little break, I packed up my laptop and genealogy notes to go to the Montgomery County Library in Clarksville 10 miles from the campground.

The Montgomery County Library has a large room dedicated to genealogy and I hoped to find some information on my Miller ancestors who lived in Montgomery County in the early 1800's. Unfortunately, I didn't find any information and after spending 1½ hours in the library, I decided to go back to the campground.

We had another cool fall day with a high temp in the upper 50's.

Poor cell phone signal & going to wi-fi at the PX

We don't have a very strong cell phone signal here at Fletcher's Fork Campground at Fort Campbell and our 3G signal isn't any better. So this afternoon after lunch we drove on base to find a place to wi-fi. We stopped at the base library to see if they had wi-fi and they don't. They did tell us that the Food Court at the PX did have wi-fi.

On our way over to the PX we passed by this tree decked out in fall colors,

From Fort Campbell

stopped to take a photo of this eagle sculpture

From Fort Campbell

and passed by the 101st Airborne Division Headquarters building.

From Fort Campbell

We got to the PX about 1:30 and found a table in the Food Court that was close to an electric outlet so I could plug in my laptop's power cord. I wasn't able to get on to the wi-fi in the Food Court, but I now had a strong 4G signal

Murray, KY to Fort Campbell

We left Holly Green RV Park this morning at 10:00 and drove east on Chestnut Street to US-641 and then south through Murray. We drove through the small town of Hazel just before crossing into Tennessee.

From Murray, KY to Ft Campbell

Four miles south of the Tennessee state line we drove east on TN-140 through farm land and tobacco fields. Every so often we would see a tobacco curing barn where wood fires were being used to cure the tobacco leaves.

From Murray, KY to Ft Campbell

A little later we connected with US-79 and drove over the Kentucky Lake

Genealogy Research in Murray, KY

Tuesday was domestic chores day. In the morning I drove over to the Murray Post Office and picked up our mail at General Deliver. Then I drove a few blocks over to a laundromat and spent a couple of hours doing laundry. I spent the afternoon working on genealogy and putting together a research list for my trip to the Pogue Library at Murray State University (MSU).

Then later on Tuesday afternoon I went to Kroger’s to get a few groceries. We wanted to have chicken fingers for dinner, so I drove to Zaxby’s to get them. We decided that the chicken fingers from Bojangles and Goldfingers (in Dothan) are better than Zaxby’s.

Mike took a couple of photos of the campground here in Murray Wednesday.

From Benton, IL to Murray, KY

From Benton, IL to Murray, KY

That afternoon I stopped by MSU’s Public Safety office

Benton, IL to Murray, KY & Superman statue

When we got up this morning it was cloudy (53°) and looked like it would rain any minute. After breakfast we started to break camp and were ready to leave by 10:00. We said goodbye to Frances (she had already taken Jack to work before we got up this morning) and promised that we would be back for a visit and that we wouldn’t let 6 years go by between visits.

We drove through Benton Town Square

From Benton, IL to Murray, KY

and west to I-57. We had driven about 10 miles when it started to rain. We stopped at Sam’s Club in Marion at 10:30 to get gas in the RV and car ($3.739 a gal) and did some shopping in Sam’s. We decided to fix lunch while we were still parked at Sam’s. We left Sam’s at 12:15 and continued south on I-57 to I-24.

We have passed by Metropolis several times on our travels and have never stopped to see the giant Superman statue. So we made a quick decision

Sunday Church Service & Lunch at Applebee's

This morning we met Frances and Jack (they had gone in for their Sunday School classes) at Immanuel Baptist Church for the 10:40 church service. They have a young pastor (he’s 34) and before the church service he went around greeting everyone.

After church we drove to Applebee’s and had lunch with Frances and Jack.

On the way back through Benton, we took photos of some of the houses in town.

From Benton, IL

From Benton, IL

We’ve been having such a great time visiting here, that we hadn’t