Monthly Archives: June 2015

Checked out a couple of wineries in the Leelanau Peninsula AVA, one of Michigan’s four AVAs. I bought some Gruner veltliner and Pinot blanc, unusual finds, as well as unbaked Chardonnay, Pinot noir, Pinot Gris, rose of Pinot noir, Gewürztraminer, Cabernet franc, and a red blend. 

Staying at Indigo Bluffs RV Park  

Visited Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 

A down day in Michigan woods after visit to Munson Community Healthcare Center in Traverse City to stock up on heavy duty cough medicine. I’d hope to do wine tasting here on the Leelanau Peninsula – 25 wineries – but get up and go got up and left. We’ve had some good fish – walleye, perch, smelt, and steelhead.

Flying Tigers  

Truman’s presidential plane  

Staying at the Kal-Haven RV Park.

View from Captain Lou’s restaurant (a very jolly place) during dinner on the 23rd.

We’ve just arrived at John Bryan to begin our. Week at Antioch – first volunteering to fix up the campus, then for the reunion and first commencement of the newly reopened college. It’s about 2 pm and there is a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 pm. Maybe the rain will cool things down. Quite a change from the 5300′ campground in the Smokies.

1. Leaving the coolth, we drove through Tennessee, Kentucky, into Ohio. All the way was green and beautiful. And warm. Sitting outside now at the park listening to Prairie Home Companion with a little breeze.
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5300′, cool, rhodedrons, mountain laurel, azaleas.  Visited Mingus grist mill and mountain farm museum. So green, so vibrant. Most of park visitors are in the TN (north) side. We were lucky to stay in two uncrowded campgrounds – uncrowded because they are out of the way.

Lovely campground, mostly tent campers. Max RV length 25′. Huzzah. Heavy rain in the afternoon cooled it to wonderful 70s for excellent sleeping.

I checked the weather in Gadsden driving off the interstate after a 20-minute delay on I-59 for road work – cloudy o rain for three days. Then I noticed the rainbow, which seemed out of place for the situation. Then it started to rain a bit. And by the time we got to the campground, it was heavy. We donned rain coats and ran into the office to register. Just as we got there, the lights went out. And the hail started. How to get into the gated park with no electricity? Umbrellas flying, plants knocked over, trees uprooted – a real doozy. 

We went to dinner at Top O’ the River – catfish! – to wait out the storm. Then back to River Country for a riverside site. Very pretty and quiet even though close to I-59. 

A quiet night awakened by birds other than Tico. And, of course, Tico. I checked on my current options trade (QQQ iron condor) and made a reservation at Crosby campground in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. John checked his mail and answered an rv yahoo group question about battery meters. Eventually we got it together to head out and get lunch at the Courtyard Cafe (meat and four) in quaint downtown Gadsden & next to  dinosaur and art museums! It looked like everyone in town was there. Fried green tomatoes!