We got up early this morning and had coffee with Frances and Jack before loading the car. They offered to fix breakfast before we left, but we declined and said we'd stop somewhere on the road and get something. It was hard to pass up one of Jack's homemade breakfasts, especially since this morning's temp was 48° with a wind chill of 39°.
We left their house at 8:00 and took IL-34 south to connect with IL-142 at Eldorado and then down to IL-1 to Cave-in-Rock. We stopped at Hardee's in Harrisburg on IL-34 about 9:00 for a quick breakfast. We arrived at Cave-in-Rock about 10:00 just as the ferry was leaving.
While we waited for the ferry to return, we walked Tinker down to the river and he watched the ferry leaving and crossing the Ohio River.
The ferry was back by 10:20 and we were the first vehicle on board.
We arrived on the Kentucky side at 10:30 and took KY-91 south to Marion, KY and then south on US-641 to Eddyville, KY and stopped at McDonald's for lunch before heading down to I-24 and over to Nashville.
We decided to stop at the Camping World and Bankston's Motorhomes at Nashville to look at the T@B tear drop campers they have there.We still want to do some more traveling, but we haven't decided what kind of RV we want. This was our first time seeing the T@B trailers and we liked how they made good use of what space there was, but we will have to decide if we want to travel in something that small.
We stayed on I-24 until we got down to the Tennessee and Georgia border then we took I-59 south. We stopped at a Quick Mart at Rising Fawn, GA to get gas ($1.879 a gallon). We exited I-59 at Fort Payne, AL and drove down to Symphony's house, which is about 15 miles and arrived there a little before 5:00.
Symphony has a Bichon named Chrissy and Tinker and Chrissy are best friends. Symphony also has another dog name Buddy that she has adopted and all three dogs got along real well together.
We unpacked the car and then had dinner. We're fortunate that the friends and family we stay with are really good cooks and we enjoyed the home grown vegetables that Symphony had grown in her garden.
As we drove south from Illinois today, the temperatures kept getting warmer and are now in the 60's - which is still cooler than south Florida.
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