Had a great night at the motel. Ordered a pizza and watched a movie,. Actually the Netflix I had on the computer was easier to watch than the TV and it had the movies I like. Got up really slow this morning. Finally, left to walk to the Ford dealer dragging my suitcase behind me. Actually, that worked quite well because I could stop in the shade and had a place to sit. Got to the dealer about 11:15 and the motor was in...talked with the tech and he said it would be another hour. So, I waited....and waited....and waited. I didn't want to rush him so I just waited...... I finally got out of there about 3:30 pm after going bankrupt......taxes came to $450......I think he did a pretty good job. Took off for Costco to fill with gas before I realized that the tank was almost on empty. Stopped at a 7-Eleven to get some gas and was going to just fill it up, but it only allowed me to put in 17 gallons. Got some food there too, but decided to continue on to Costco. Then I noticed that my phone was not charging....turned out the USB for the 12V outlet was missing. Looked all over for it and could not find it. After using my phone all day it was down to 50% and I didn't have any way to charge it so I could use the navigation. I did use it and it got me to Costco, who didn't have any USB 12v chargers so got gas filled up and took off. Made it to I75 and by now the battery was down to 45% when it started acting funny. Restarted it and it didn't really start up right....but knew that I was on the right road. Stopped at a rest area to see if I could get it fixed.....no luck, so drove on. Decided to just stop at the first campground I came to....which happened to be Blueberry Hill...Pretty nice campground but the office closed at 6 pm and it was now 6:30. The nice thing is that there was a WalMart within walking distance so I went there and got the USB charged I needed. I finally got the phone to restart properly and it is working fine now.....thank you Lord. Next I wanted to check out the satellite and couldn't get it to work. So got something else to do when I get home.....never boring.
Finally got to a great little county park right on the lake. A neat old guy checked me in and said that it was built by the TVA....Tennessee Valley Authority, but they don't like to maintain these so they leased it to the county. $18 for elect and water is a great price.
The trip here is another story. Everything was going fine for the first 540 miles but the last 15 miles took me 1 1/2 hours because there was something that caused a HUGE backup. It was so bad that at times I put it into park because we just didn't move at all. This went on for miles. Google Maps finally gave me an alternate which was a little longer and 2 lanes but after an hour and 20 min of stop and go, I took it. It was really great.
The only other bad place was around Atlanta. Google Maps was taking me through downtown, but I did that once before and did not like it. I noticed a sign that said trucks had to take 285 Bypass so I decided to take it too. Loved it, until I got to the other side of Atlanta and back on 75 N that I ran into construction which slowed me down too. This all put me into the park about 4 hours more that was programmed. Considering I only stopped 2 times for gas and 2 times at a rest area which only added about an hour to the trip, most of the delay was the traffic.
One of the stops was for lunch and I decided to start the generator to run the AC and microwave a Hot Pocket, but something happened that I lost power even with the generator running. Something else to check out when I get home.
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