ROADTRIP! Kentucky and Illinois are just faded memories today. They were almost obstacles to reach St. Louis, Missouri. Kentucky seemed to boast a lot about its National Quilt Museum. These 2 states just didn’t interest us. I’m sorry to any Kentucky or Illinois readers, like Bill Reynolds from Kentucky, and the Zarbucks in Illinois. Besides, I did
n’t see any blue grass; it all looked green to me. ;-) You guys have nice barns. We did stop into a Wal-Mart in Paducah Kentucky, where we shopped for the weeks groceries. THEN we ate lunch in the RV and enjoyed the breath-taking views of the metals and chromes adorned upon the vehicles in 
the parking lot. Sounds nice, huh? I realize that these 2 states have more to offer than farmland, but then again, it wouldn’t be as amusing for the blog.One plus is that we crossed the Tennessee River and Ohio River. I couldn’t tell ya what states those were in without
looking at a map. My blog note taking skills slacked a little during the visual barn-fest and farming fields fest. A big minus for Illinois is their speed limit for trucks and RVs. 55 for us, 65 for others. I’m sure the truckers who provide our country with food and supplies really love Illinios, although most of them seemed to ignore the sign. A humorous moment was Jim spotting a Goreville sign in Illinois. He asked if it was Gore like Al Gore or gore like icky scary gore, I replied, “Same thing.”ARRIVAL! To get to Jellystone camp grounds, one passes Six Flags. It was about 6:30pm and Six Flags looked lifeless. The website said they were open until 8pm. Hmmmmmm. We pulled into Jellystone and Jim checked in. Jim found out that Six Flags is only open on the weekends. Apparently, when we looked it up on the website it was still August. Checkout was planned for Friday so we’ll miss it. Oh well, there’s plenty of other Six Flags around the country.
Of course it started raining as we pulled into our site which lowered the temperature to 60 or so immediately. The sites are terrible. To the best of my knowledge, RV’s and travel trailers are all setup the same. Hookups on the driver’s side and coach door on the passenger side. Well, the sites are on top of one another. Just about literally too. If we were to actually set up the coach the way the site is laid out, our awning would be over the next sites connection boxes. We’d be able to set up a chair and put a drink up on the sewer connection for the neighbor. Never mind setting up a screen room, although we’d be able to shield the neighbor’s hookups from insects. Handy, huh? The picnic table, fire ring and BBQ for OUR site are on our connection side. We’d be able to enjoy our dinner at the table while putting our feet up on our connections. Totally unacceptable! Luckily, you can count how many RV’s are here on 1 hand so we’ll deal with it.
DINNER! Yay, we wanted to go somewhere unique to the area. The guy at the check-in desk recommended “Joe Boccardi’s” so off we went. Jim had toasted lasagna which is cooked normally and then fried. I didn’t care for it; I craved Laurie Taylor’s famous lasagna. I had chicken marsala and didn’t really care for it either.ARCH! My foot arch was killing me. Oh no, not that arch, I meant THE
Arch. The gateway to the West. We went to see it at night. It’s amazing you can even touch it. I guess I was thinking it would be roped off or something. It’s remarkable. We expected it to be lit better but it still was neat.BAR! A man walks into a…. sorry, we went to a local bar. There were maybe 4 other patrons. It’s a Monday what could we expect? We chatted with the bartender for a couple of drinks worth and then came on home to the coach.
the bluegrass is in the central part of the state. come back and talk to me when u've visited louisville... now thats a fun city!
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