6 Months, 2 Newlyweds, 1 RV

So we left Savannah, and headed for Cherokee, we drove for a little while and then decided to stop at a Walmart to pick a few items that we needed. As we hadn’t had lunch yet we decided that we would pick something up from the Walmart while we were there. Once we had picked up the few things we had needed we headed to the hot food section of Walmart, which sells chicken and chips and a variety of other hot food. We saw a sign that said we could buy a bucket of chicken for $10 but you could choose 3 different types of hot foods so we got some potato wedges, some fried chicken and some honey glazed chicken. That’s a lot of chicken for $10, so we exited the Walmart and went back to the RV and ate lunch and hit the road.


We drove pretty much the rest of the day and watched the grassy plains roll into mountain country. We hit a small bit of traffic on our way to Cherokee due to construction and roadwork’s but the rest of the journey was quite ordinary. We approached the Smokey Mountains and started our climb up as our campgrounds were on the other side. It wasn’t a steep mountain but it did slow us down a little bit as the RV went up some of the hills. As we got closer to our campgrounds we were treated to stunning views of the Smokey Mountains. Beautiful greenery and crystal clear running creeks and about 5 minutes from our campground destination we came across an elk grazing in an open field.

After the elk we arrived at our destination with was a campgrounds near the Smokey mountains national park. Apparently the Smokey Mountain National Park is the most visited national park in America, which was interesting to know. So we drove in, set up the RV, and prepared our dinner on the grill and once we had finished dinner, we toasted marshmallows and made s’mores.

It was a very informative experience and we learned a lot about their lifestyle, culture and their society. Once we finished walking around the Indian village it was about 1pm and that was when our bus was going to take us back to the campgrounds.

Once we got back to our campgrounds we decided to take a walk and have a look around as we got in late the night before and didn’t get much of a look around. The only thing we got a glimpse of on our way in was the big trout pond at the front of the campgrounds that gets stocked twice a week apparently. The campgrounds are very big and it has 5 pools a big jumping pillow (basically a big trampoline) a gift store, a tube ride down the creek that runs through the camp beside a little island that they have as an off leash area for pets at the campgrounds. They also have an arcade as well as a big screen for movies that they show nightly.

The next day we had a bit of a sleep in and when we got up we took the bus into town to do some shopping (what the other people had done the day before that I’ve said previously). So for a couple of hours Kate and I walked up and down the street going in and out of shops that sold various Indian souvenirs like dream catchers and arrow heads and things of that nature. We bought some stuff and then caught the bus back to the campgrounds. We then waited until it was a reasonable time in Australia before Kate and I called our mothers for mother’s day. But as all the payphones in the campgrounds were out of order we had to ask the campground staff if we could use their office phone to call home (we have a phone card so it didn’t cost them anything). Once we did that we went back to our RV and hung around there for the rest of the night.

A few people have asked what our itinerary is.  Well it keeps changing from day to day nearly, but right now we are in Tennessee, and we will start heading up north, to be in Canada by the 21st May.  We anticipate a pretty straight up route, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and then across into Canada.  We will stay there for a week or so with a mate, and then head down the east coast to New York.