Istachatta to Raccoon Valley

Tuesday Marilee had invited Marlyn and Bill over to supper, Marilee had cooked up some Mexican. It was really nice, Burritos. (I'm not sure if the Burro bit isn't to do with mules, but didn't enquire too closely). Then we had time for some more jammin'. Unfortunately the clock always wins and we had to end the evening, but we had all had a great time. So thanks for our couple of days in Florida everyone.

An early start the next day found us back in Orlando to catch a flight for Knoxville on board an Air Trans flight. It was interesting to fly up across parts of Florida we had visited on the ground. We hit cloud over Georgia, so were unable to see the Ockeefenocee, or the North Georgia Highlands, though it did clear briefly as we flew across Pigeon Forge.

George and Kay were waiting for us at Alcoa Airport with our truck, all ready to go. George had even washed it! Many thanks for that, now I have a standard to maintain. We stopped on the way at Shoney's for one of their buffet meals and George and Kay showed us round downtown Knoxville and the University. Knoxville has some interesting places, they held the World's Fair there in 1982, so a lot of interesting buildings went up then, including the Golden Globe, a very large globe on a tower(They really do have the moon on a stick here). The University football stadium is massive.

On being re-united with our trailer we started the clean out. Everything was fine except for some droppings and nuts in the trailer. Sally thought mice, I thought squirrel, George thought chipmonks. Whichever way, they had not damaged any of the furnishings or got to any of the food, so it was just a case of sweeping out the floor of the trailer.(That's the bit Terry did. I had to disinfect all the kitchen and all the surfaces!!) We are once again sited on the Raccoon Valley Festival field, nobody else here but the deer.