Getting ready to take a road trip from St. Johns, Florida to Emigrant, Montana is equivalent to packing up your house to move. Lots of items are needed for the next 5 months of travel. Clothing needs encompass winter, spring and summer. The car and the RV both need service checks before traveling these long distances. The tires only had 75 # of air pressure and needed 110#! No wonder it was a little hard to handle.
5:30 A.M. feels like the middle of the night! Neither of us slept well because of sore muscles from loading the RV. Both of us had trouble falling asleep due to our minds being in "the checklist" mode, mentally checking off our embarkation list ensuring we haven't forgotten anything.
0 miles at 6:28 A.M.- Emigrant, Montana we're on our way! First stop is Chattanooga, Tennessee. It's been a slow chilly rain most of the day. The Welcome Center for Georgia just south of Valdosta was a walking break . 80 miles later it's green grass and huge dogwood trees in full bloom! They certainly do not grow St. Augustine grass because it would be dead! We stopped at Smyrna, Ga to fill up on diesel, get coffees and change to warmer clothes. These are the foothills of the Appalachians with lots of dogwoods blooming in the woods. Lookout Mountain KOA is actually in Ringgold, Ga not Tennessee and is literally 300 yards off the interstate. It's a nice campground; don't hear the highway, but there's a large doberman in the Phaeton RV beside us barking all of the time! Chattanooga has a well kept National Cemetary with WWI, WWII, Korean, Vietnam and Persian War casualties. Just beside this is a James R. Mapp State Office Building.
James R. Mapp used to also work for the railroad. Warehouse Row has an old Knitting Mill turned into an Antique store. We bought 2 old books.
It is now "early to bed, early to rise" to get on the road again.
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