We were (and still are) nervous about pulling the RV any distance after our event of a blown tire on the RV, so when we left Nashville Sunday morning, we made sure that the weather was going to cooperate and that if possible, we would take as many back roads to head north towards Louisville. The GPS said that we had 132 miles to go, or almost 3 hours of driving if we chose to drive Interstate 65. Instead we traveled on an old truck rural route north which paralleled I65 which 
was quite lovely with huge farms, big mansions, traveling through some state parks. Very scenic. We drove as far as I thought was manageable with the RV, watching for low bridges, etc. and only until we got to just below Elizabethtown did we get on I65. Which meant we had about 45 miles to go until we were going to stop for the day. Still was quite nerve wracking and the temp outside was 86. Arrived at Grandma's RV Park in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, about 15 miles below Louisville at 1:40pm. We have arrived back into Eastern Time Zone after leaving it 4 months ago! The weather for last night and today was calling for heavy rain, thunderstorms, wind so we opted to spend an extra day here and wait it out. We will leave tomorrow, Tuesday morning, for a campground just north of Columbus - if we can get through the construction on I71 in a timely manner, and if we are delayed any, we will stop one more time before getting to Columbus for a month's stay until mid May when campgrounds open up near our condo in Vermilion. Did we tell you all that we are officially full-timer RVers? We rented out our condo to dear friends and they have since moved in while we were gone. So, we need to get back to the condo and move our 'stuff' out of their way and store it. Becomming full-time was not in our plans when we left last winter, but we are glad that we can help our friends get back to the Cleveland area and nearer their family, AND, we get to really LIVE OUR DREAM of full-time Rvers. If you ever see a big white Ford Truck with a Designer 5th wheel RV attached to the truck going down the road and you notice the graphic on the back of the RV with a turtle walking along the road to the mountains, and the license plate on the RV that says TURTLNG, you know it's us and wave and honk your horn at us as you go by!
was quite lovely with huge farms, big mansions, traveling through some state parks. Very scenic. We drove as far as I thought was manageable with the RV, watching for low bridges, etc. and only until we got to just below Elizabethtown did we get on I65. Which meant we had about 45 miles to go until we were going to stop for the day. Still was quite nerve wracking and the temp outside was 86. Arrived at Grandma's RV Park in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, about 15 miles below Louisville at 1:40pm. We have arrived back into Eastern Time Zone after leaving it 4 months ago! The weather for last night and today was calling for heavy rain, thunderstorms, wind so we opted to spend an extra day here and wait it out. We will leave tomorrow, Tuesday morning, for a campground just north of Columbus - if we can get through the construction on I71 in a timely manner, and if we are delayed any, we will stop one more time before getting to Columbus for a month's stay until mid May when campgrounds open up near our condo in Vermilion. Did we tell you all that we are officially full-timer RVers? We rented out our condo to dear friends and they have since moved in while we were gone. So, we need to get back to the condo and move our 'stuff' out of their way and store it. Becomming full-time was not in our plans when we left last winter, but we are glad that we can help our friends get back to the Cleveland area and nearer their family, AND, we get to really LIVE OUR DREAM of full-time Rvers. If you ever see a big white Ford Truck with a Designer 5th wheel RV attached to the truck going down the road and you notice the graphic on the back of the RV with a turtle walking along the road to the mountains, and the license plate on the RV that says TURTLNG, you know it's us and wave and honk your horn at us as you go by!
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