Awake: 7:23am Temp 51 sleep 6+51 sunny overnight @ East Memphis, TN.
No early start for us today; due to the area deluge of last week, this campsite is like a swamp & filling up our water tank requires stringing our extra (50) ft hose across the swamp to the nearest faucet. While Kathy walks over to the office of the Agra center to pay our camping fee, I auto fill our pure water tank with some 160 gal of very good tasting Memphis water.
Ron D. returns my call from yesterday; he was in Anchorage for a week giving simulator training to the guys up there; we talk for some (20) min & then Ron arrives @ his current destination: the Memphis simulator.
We leave East Memphis @ 11:12am & continue traveling I-40 east; 1st stop: Flying “J” in Fairview, TN to top off our fuel tank: 162.6 gal @ $3.82 per gal. Then continue on I-40 & arrive @ the Soaring Eagle RV Park near Lenoir City, TN @ 5:40pm. Kathy called the Soaring Eagle Park when we were about (130) miles out…..good thing too because they had only (2) sites vacant for the night; when we checked in, the other lucky guy arrived right behind us.
Today’s travel: 350 miles 6+03 time 54.1 gal used 6.5 mpg 58 avg speed
I call G.W. & leave a message; he returns the call with a plan for Wednesday.
Dinner: leftover pork chops & wild rice.
DVR movie: “Anthony Adverse” Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenn, etc. Blockbuster filmization of young man gaining maturity through adventures in various parts of early 19th-century Europe, Cuba & Africa. 1936. Interesting story, I could watch it again.
Lights out: 2:16am
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