Road Trip 04-25-09

04-25-09
We are preparing to leave for Knoxville. I get up early, 8:30, and walk Peanut and when I get done I hook up the Jeep to be towed behind the coach. We have not had anyone behind us while we have been in the park for 5 days. I write my blogs get everything else ready. I like to take my shower after all the prep is done so that I'm not sweaty, it's 10:45 and I'm in the shower and a knock on the door, they have put a Rental RV behind us and we have to move or unhook the Jeep and move it. I tell Dixie I'm not cutting my shower short and ask her to move the Jeep. Well I get all ready and get outside, and the rental RV has not even hooked up to electric or water or anything. Those bastards could have saved me a whole lot of agravation by just parking on the space ten feet further forward. I believe that life is a circle and that they will get theirs eventually. I used to believe I had to get even myself, but I now know that eventually someone else will take care of that for me. I have now calmed down and we are cruising to Knoxville after eating one of the most delicious cupcakes from Cupcakes Collection. Dixie had the Italian Wedding cake and I ate the Chocolate one, so that is our breakfast and lunch. We drive to Knoxville and we are close to the campground however the GPS puts us in a difficult place, we have to negotiate a 2 lane road made for horse carriages rather than an 8'6" wide coach,and traffic coming at you from the other direction and with tree limbs hanging over threatening to tear off the top part of the RV, parts of asphalt missing on the road, we make it intact. We wish there was a setting for RVs or Big trucks on the GPS so that it does not take us down roads made long ago. We get to Southlake RV Park. It is advertised as the closest to downtown Knoxville, so we check in. This park is not really designed for large RVs, but what a great place. We are right on a lake right off the Tennesee River, it's lightning bugs, campfires,families having fun, tenters with babies and dogs. We went to have some food about 15 miles from the campground to a place called Litton's. It's a hamburger, steak,seafood place. No kidding they are a butcher shop, bakery and kitchen all rolled into one. They sell it to eat there or to go prepared to cook at home or already cooked. They are not cheap. We order burgers because that is what they are famous for. There is a waiting list for a table,so we eat at the counter where Donna takes our drink order of two Ultras on draft. $2.25 for a beer or a soda, you know what we chose. Dixie orders the Thunder Road, a cheese burger with 1/2 pound hand formed ground fresh daily beef served on their homemade bun with pimento cheese, sauteed onions, whole jalapeno pepper, and Dixie got a side salad with Newmans own balsamanic vinegerette dressing. I got the basic burger with american cheese and bacon and a side of hand cut fries. They were both good but the bill was a little on the high side for burgers and beer, $26. without tip.They have a cool way for a waiting list and there is usually a waiting list for a table, there is a chalk board and you write your name on it with how many in your party and then they take you as tables open up. We didn't have dessert but what a choice they have,not cheap,but what a choice,see the display case. A whole pie is up to $95. That's not a misprint that's up to $95 for a pie. For that kind of money you could buy some hair pie.If you just want a slice it is between $5 and $7 for a slice, this had better be good dessert.This is the first day that we have only had one meal and that is a good thing. We are walking around the campground trying to get some exercise and walk off a few pounds and there is one space that has a fire going and a waterfall, it is pretty cool. There are very few transient spaces in this park, looks like most spaces are taken not by live ins,but by people that keep an RV on a space all year but probably use it as a summer cabin. We are planning on chilling out for a few days and just hanging out and resting rather than going a hundred miles per hour, but who knows. See Ya Brian