Rolling North

 

After our great New Orleans stay we rolled north to the Yogi On The Lake park in Pelehatchie Mississippi. The place is just to the east of Jackson and we have been here before. A nice park but the sites vary widely. Some are nice hard gravel and some are mushy clay under a little stone. No one was here so after experimentation we settled in site 221 which was level ... yup we did get stuck in the mud and yup we had to unhook the car to get the 20 tons to move backwards out of the mire.

 

 

But once in the site it was a quiet and very pretty night ... when the latest repair was finished.

Because our generator wouldn't come on to supply power we needed a new transfer switch. On Sunday morning just coming out of New Orleans we stopped by a Camping World near Hammond in a little town called Pumpkin Center ... no kidding.

While the name of their town is not normal they had the part we needed and we paid the parts guy and went up to stay with Yogi for the night. But first I had to install the new transfer box.

The caption here is, "OK, do I use the twirly-clicky thing or the yanky-whacky thing?"

Anyway after about an hour of hooking up all the connections and taking the old fried box to the dumpster, we had pure gen and shore power again ... RV life at its finest.

The stay at Yogi was great right on the lake with birds and extreme quiet and our evening walk was super. Next morning off north but to fuel up first. The highway fuel at Love's or Pilot was about $2.65 but if you stopped at Joe's joint off the freeway it was quite a bit less. Let's see a hundred gallons for .40 a gallon less ... that's $40 saved for this day's run ... wow.

After we left Pelahatchie and were happily running down the road at 70 MPH this thing walked right up the windshield from the bottom to top ... nothing you can do ... no place to pull over ...

When we hit a rest stop I gassed the front window area with some Raid and by the time we landed at Clarksville the thing had succumbed to the fumes ... what about us.

We did arrive in Clarksville Tennessee on the 25th at the Clarksville RV Park which is again highly rated but not up to the ratings. This is an old KOA that lost its support and gone on their own with just a coat of paint and a lot of hope.

Again Good Sam really needs to look at their exaggerated ratings of places like this. Sure it was a nice park for one nite on the road but nothing else ... definitely not a top rated place. Gravel sites and close neighbors without much else ...