We got an early start this morning and pulled out of our camping site at 7:45am. We had to stop at the dump before leaving the campground since we did not have sewer hook-up and we needed empty black and gray tanks before going into the rally. We then stopped for fuel, had a tight squeeze getting out of the gas station necessitating us to disconnect the Jeep and then reconnecting once out of the station. These things occasional happen- thankfully we have not had many of these occurrences. We only had a 61 mile trip and we were on the Louisville Exposition Center grounds before 10 am and parked about 20 minutes later. We were parked in the electric section but our energy management system would not allow the electric to come into the coach due to too high voltage. So an electrician was summoned, responded to correct the problem with the area generator and we then were able to receive the electric. We had to catch a tram to go to the area for registration. After registering we saw some folks from Maryland- Esthermay Brooks and Woody Woodruff with his dog, Penny- Woody is a Traveling American member also.
Returning back to the motorhome and feeling hungry we jumped into the Jeep and went in search of a barbeque restaurant. We found a place called Mark’s Feed Store and had a nice lunch. The waitress suggested fried pickles, an appetizer, so we gave them a try. Not bad but don’t know that I would get them very often. I had a cup of burgoo, a local stew full of meat and vegetables, and a pork sandwich. Tom had a pork dinner- lots of pork, cole slaw and fries. We both had more than we could eat so brought part of a pork sandwich and pork back to the motorhome to have later.
As we were returning to the motorhome from lunch, we saw Woody and his wife, Linda, out walking dogs so we stopped by and visited with them. Their dog, Penny, is a sweet dog that I have spoiled a little with treats so she knows me and I just happened to have treats available to give her some. They were also dog sitting another dog. Later in the afternoon we got a call from Lois Howard saying she had gotten onto the grounds and would stop by after she had gotten registered. We had visited Lois in Tennessee earlier this year and had talked about coming to this rally. She did stop by and visited for a short while and then had to get back to her 2 little dogs. Tomorrow the rally will officially begin and we will be busy going to seminars, going through displays and checking out the vendors wares.
