Our reservations for Fall Creek Falls did not begin until Sunday, but we had decided to go on up and stay at Mountain Glen RV Park which is about 20 miles outside the park until Sunday. Mountain Glen is actually a pretty nice park with full hookups and lots of peace and quiet way out in the country. The main negative is that most of the sites require some maneuvering because they are not level and the utilities might not be where you need them.
We got site #16 and were able to get level without any blocks so we were happy with that.
There were RVs on about 8 or 9 of the sites but most looked like they were just stored there and visited on weekends or whatever. Except for one other couple who left on Saturday, we pretty much had the place to ourselves.
On Friday night, we watched Vanderbilt win their bracket in the College World Series and we watched Virginia win their bracket on Saturday night so they will be playing each other in the finals again this year starting Monday night.
It rained a little bit and it was kind of windy but the temperatures were so nice we were able to sit outside both Friday and Saturday evenings and enjoy the sights and sounds of the countryside which included a donkey hee-hawing and a dog that howled like it was in deep distress. Since the dog howled like that Friday night, Saturday night and early Sunday morning, I think he was just a yelping, howling old dog. :)
On Saturday, we decided to take a drive to Wal-mart. Google Maps was showing me that the Wal-Mart in Dunlap was as close to us as the one in Sparta so we decided to take a drive to Dunlap, Tennessee. Of course, I missed our first turn but we quickly found another road to get us back on track. Here, we were so far out in the backwoods of Tennessee, I thought I might hear some banjos playing if I rolled down my window. :)
After traveling through the backwoods for a while, we began a curvy descent down Hwy 110.
We decided to go on a little further than Dunlap and traveled back up and then down on Hwy 111 towards Chattanooga.
We stopped at a Wal-Mart in Hixson, Tennessee, picked up the few items we needed, and then headed back to Mountain Glen. This time we stayed on Hwy 111 all the way up and down and then back up the mountain towards Fall Creek Falls. After all our driving around, we determined that Hwy 111 is the best road to take if you are traveling in an RV to Fall Creek Falls, The road is good and has manageable ascents and descents for RVs both traveling north from Chattanooga or traveling south from I-40 and Cookeville. The main thing to be careful of is your speed, particularly around Spencer, Tennessee. Chuck got his last ticket on Hwy 111 in Spencer 4 years ago. The speed signs were not clearly marked but that didn't matter. He got a ticket anyways. Some birthday present!
On Sunday, we headed over to Fall Creek Falls right around noon which was check-out time hoping that our site would be available. Of course, it wasn't yet so we parked and waited about 30 minutes. It worked out well, though, because both of our daughters had called to wish him a Happy Father's Day! :)
We got on our site and checked in around one and then Chuck did a quick water-only wash of the motorhome to wash off the western travel dust.
Donald and Anna and Steve and Darlene arrived a little after 4 pm and we visited with them for a little while they were getting set up. We got back together after they got back from dinner and sat around and talked until almost midnight.
We're looking forward to two weeks of more visiting, card-playing, corn-holing, bicycle-riding, golf, hiking, and a whole lot of laughing! :)
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