Archive for August, 2008

Wildcat Sighting

Clarksville (Oak Grove), KY to We saw our first Wildcat on the road today – complete with the special ‘Wildcat hand signal’ owners of these kinds of trailers give when spotting each other on the road. I guess like anything else, it’s nice to feel like you belong to a special club. We joined an [...]

Don’t blindly trust the GPS!

Eufaula, AL to Clarksville (Oak Grove), KY Yikes! Almost got stuck in a dead end in Birmingham, AL because our GPS told us to follow a certain route to the freeway and it no longer existed.

Day 2 on the road – Propane Leaks and Early Mornings

Eufaula, AL at Lakepoint State Park What a great day! First off, the propane leak detector was silent tonight. Yay! That tells us we do not have any propane leaks or defective detector. It also let us get a decent night sleep – the first in two days. I woke up to light outside the [...]

Our first ‘official’ day on the road as traveling Full-Timers

DAY 1 Summerfield, FL to Eufaula, AL Today was a travel day. After last night’s 4am wake-up from the Propane Gas detector yet again (we were up about an hour this time trying to figure out why it was going off, then waiting for the detector to stop alerting by opening ALL the windows in [...]

Billy Mills – 1964 Olympics – Video Clips

Short version – B&W: Longer version – Color: