Adventure has many faces!

When traveling with a 5th wheel trailer many things can cause your heart to race. We were on our way to our next RV campground in Rock Island Tennessee when we saw the two road signs that make you think, not good “Road work ahead” and “Narrow bridge” as we came around the corner we saw the narrow bridge which we knew we would fit on, but we also notice that half of the narrow lane on the bridge was 8″ – 10″ lower than the other half so we held our breath and slowly made our way across the bridge successful. We arrived at the road for the campground and turned right onto the road and the road just disappeared, the road is to narrow to turn around so we slowly continue forward wondering what happen to the road and than we saw it, around a fairly sharp right hand turn and down about 12 feet at 8 percent grade hill. We made it down the hill (still no place to turn around) the road is a wonderful mix of dirt and gravel and narrow. Our next obstacle was a sharp left hand turn followed by a hill that is 25 or 30 feet long, with an 8 percent grade, we took a deep breath and started around the corner and up the hill we get about 1/3 of the way up and the tires on the truck start losing traction but we get to the top and realize we are on one of the roads where whats ahead is worse than what you just went through. One more steep down hill followed by a steep up hill and we arrived at the campground and than it hits us we have to do this again to get out of here.

The reviews on this campground were good but nobody mentioned the road into the campground. We did make it out ok and now I know what it feels like to have a 10,000 pound trailer push our truck down a steep hill into a sharp right-hand turn.

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Tennessee

We stopped at the Tennessee Welcome Center when we crossed the State line and across the freeway was this giant guitar and it brought to mind my big brother Mike, he is a very accomplished guitarist and has played for as long as I can remember.

 

 

We stayed 1 night at the Around the Pond RV campground. The owner is very laid back and the ambiance is relaxing, its the kind of place you want to stay for awhile but unfortunately it wasn’t close enough to the Great Smokey Mountains National Park for us to do that. If you find yourself in North-Eastern Tennessee and need a quite relaxation place check out Around the Pond in Baileyton TN.

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