Biker Benefit

 We went to our favorite brewery in town on Saturday for a biker benefit to buy a ballistic vest for the police dogs. They had a 50/50 raffle and raffled off brewery merchandise. We didn't win anything. They had the dogs there and did some demonstrations of the dogs at work. It was pretty impressive.

This one sniffed out some contraband in a jeep.

They raised close to $1000 bucks.

They had a good turn out for a good cause.

We took a little road trip to Blue Ridge, GA and found The Grumpy Men Brewery. The beer was really good and they had a really nice patio to enjoy the great outdoors. We've been really enjoying hunting down breweries on this trip this year. We've found some good ones.

Here is another one in Hayesville, GA. Hayesville Brewing Company. They had a nice patio here too, overlooking a cow field out in the middle of nowhere. It's just fun finding places like this.

Here is another one! But sometimes the beer is not that good, like the cream ale I had here.

Patrick the Brew Master at Buck Bald Brewery doing his magic.  

We added a place to put our shoes at the end of the bed, it was Peggy's idea, and it worked out great. 

     

When we are at a park long enough to order parts for the RV it's a good thing. We ordered a windshield cover and it worked great.  We should have gotten this before we left Yuma. It's nice to make improvements to our home. 

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Katie relaxing in the sun.

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Music in the park

 We are in Murphy, NC at Rivers Edge RV Resort. This is one of the best parks we've ever stayed at. The sites are 125 feet long and 50 feet wide, with nice grass between sites. We've stayed here before. This weekend is a little crazy here in the park with weekend people, but they'll be gone on Monday. It's a little rainy this week, and predicted almost everyday. 

Nice big site. And it's raining. 

The town has grown a little since the last time we were here. They have a nice Brewery, Buck Bald Brewing. The beer is very good.

I love these hop lights they have and they sell them, $200 each. But I don't have a place to put one up. They would have been great at our home bar back in Saginaw.

Katie had a new friend here in the park, Frankie the french bull dog. He would come over every time his people weren't looking. It was pretty funny.

 

We took a little road trip to Bryson City. We stopped to watch the river rafters go by. This is the site of the 2013 Canoe Freestyle World Championships.

Nice place to sit and watch. 

 

We found a nice Brewery in Bryson city. The Mountain Lakers Brewing Company. They had a food truck out back. We had Garlic Chicken Rice and it was good. We'll be going back again.

The park has had music this weekend at the pavilion. Friday night was a jam session that was pretty good for not having played together before. Saturday was another band and tonight Karaoke. I think we will skip that, I don't care for Karaoke.

This guy can play two saxophones at the same time.

Got a new toy. The Air Selfie drone. It flies out takes a picture then flies back to lands in your hand.

I think we found our old truck here in the park, but it's not. Same year and everything. Looks good and for sale.

  

Do Not take the Motor home this way. Only 6' 6"!

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Our Pilots dash in the Motor Home. You can never have too much information!

 

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Battle Field

We've left Nashville. We had a great time there. We should've stayed a little longer. We went to Honky Tonk Tuesday at the American Legion. We met our friend, Shantel there. Shantel is a famous writer, singer and recording artist who lives in Nashville. The stage show was on live radio. It was a very good show. Thanks Shan!

The place was packed with young people. I think we were the oldest in the building.

We had a ton of fun.

One of the local bands. They were good.

We hooked up with friends, Adam and Janelle. We met them back in Tom Sawyer RV park. We had a couple of happy hours together. We found Two Rivers Campground to be our favorite on Music Valley Drive. 

We got this good deal at Ole Smoky brewery where you buy 5, get 1 free and a free cooler! The Pickles are really good in a Bloody Mary.

We are at Holiday Travel Park in Rossville, GA. It's just outside of Chattanooga, TN. The park is built on a civil war battle field. The battle of Chickamauga in 1863, there was no real victor.

It's not a bad park, but we have our own pond on our lot. It has rained every day. The sun will be out, then moments later, it will be raining really hard.

We went downtown to Wanderlinger Brewery. The food and Beer was good. We both had the Ruben sandwich. 

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Katie in her bag sitting outside one night before the rain.

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Ya Gotta love Nashville

We've moved to 2 Rivers Campground in Nashville. We have now stayed at all the parks here on Music Valley Drive at one time or another. So far, we like this one the best. We have a back in site. This motor home is so much easier to back in! I love that. The power hook up was a little scary, but it worked. It's an old park. They have live music down by the pool every night. That's kind of nice. The really expensive KOA right next door only has music on Saturdays and it's $300 more.

Looks bad but it works.

I couldn't get our satellite to work here as there are too many trees, but Starlink works. That's a good thing. Peggy used the magic eraser on her phone to remove the tree right in front of our view. You can hardly tell.

We took the downtown shuttle for $10 each to downtown. It was crazy down there. Tons of people for a Friday afternoon. 

We met this bachelor party of crazy guys. They wouldn't stop buying us beers. We are way too old for that. But they were fun. I asked them how long they've had those cowboy hats and he looked at his watch and said 20 minutes.

The two craziest, doing shots and having fun.  It was only 3 o'clock in the afternoon!

Downtown there are a ton of ways to party. This one looks like way too much work for me.

On Saturday night we went to the Grand Ole Opry. We had great seats on the lower level. It's always fun to go to the Grand Ole Opry. 

One of the best parts was the comedian, Gary Mule Deer, he was really funny. Look him up on YouTube, you will laugh your butt off. 

On Sunday we went to a couple of local  breweries to test their beer and we found this smart Cannabis dispensary machine. We've never seen one before.      

 The weather has been great, it has cooled down a little; only in the high 80's. We had to drive thru some rain on the way here, so the motor home is a little dirty right now.  Back in Yuma we would get it washed and waxed for $100. Way more here.

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Peggy having fun at my expense. Just because I happened to spill some sauce on my shirt.

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On The Move

 We've been on the move. We stopped in Vicksburg, MS at a not so nice park. The sites were nice and big but they haven't cut the grass for maybe a month. We won't go back to that park again. Vicksburg had a lot of civil war history. We went to the Lower Mississippi Museum. It had a lot of information on the Mississippi river and an Army Corp of Engineers river boat that we took a tour of.

It was huge. It worked on the river from 1962 to 1993.

The pilot house of the Mississippi IV.

The downtown in Vicksburg was pretty nice. They had a good brewery, The Key City Brewery. The beer was pretty good.

 Now we've moved to Tom Sawyer RV park. It's one of our top 5 favorites. It's right on the Mississippi river. It has huge, pull thru sites and they've added more sites in the last 5 years. It's in West Memphis, Arkansas. The town is not very nice, but the park is great. Just across the river is Memphis, TN so there's a lot of things to do there. Last time we were here, we hooked up with Mike and Sandy. You can get to their Blog from ours. Here is the link http://mills-travels.blogspot.com/.  We went to a Japanese restaurant with them last time, so we found it again, but since COVID, the place went bad. The food sucked. It's too bad. We will not be going back there. Oh, and the good Mexican restaurant that we went to, near the park, is now closed too.

We have THE best site in the park. We have a great view of all the barge traffic on the river.

The water looks a little low, but it's been going up every day.

This one was really close.

It's kind of fun just watching them go by, then look them up on the internet and read about them.

OK, food pictures! I had to put this one in. My whole slab. Memphis BBQ, in Horn Lake, MS. It's a little drive to get to but they have the best ribs that we've ever had! Three time world champion ribs! And man, they are good.

Peggy's half slab.

We always have to go down to Beale street to Silky O'Sullivan's to get the meat and cheese plate. Man, that's good too! We're here for another week so we have lots of time to hit more BBQ places. COVID killed one of our favorite stores downtown, Tater Red's. It was a really cool novelty store.  

Beale Street has some of the best music places around. 

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I love my Mini-Max!

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