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