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Travel Stage: After Kentucky, Before Michigan Date Range: May 26 – 28, 2016 Summary: Our house is a DRV Mobile Suites fifthwheel. Since we were passing by Indiana on our way up to Michigan, we thought we’d drop into their headquarters in Howe, IN for a factory tour. 
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Travel Stage: Kentucky Date Range: May 19 – 25, 2016 I took the dogs for an early morning walk. We were camped on some property surrounded by pastures with adolescent cows that were not yet ready to join the herd in milk duty. Our spotted neighbors were hanging out by the fence that morning, chewing their cud, and watching the dogs romp around with great fascination.  It had rained the previous two days and the grass was wet and slippery. The ground had started to dry out overnight. I stopped at the fence to examine the cows. Their big curious ears locked on me as well as their non-blinking stares. Their nostrils tried to catch my scent. A brave one or two would take a ginger step forward and then the whole group would follow. One quick move and they’d pull back so suddenly they’d bump into each other. I turned to the right to look at something moving that caught my eye – another white and brown spotted cow at first glance, but no! It was a miniature horse coming up the hill! Why was it taking such small steps? Was he old? Was he injured? Then my jaw dropped. He stepped out of the tall grass and I saw the longest hooves I’d ever seen in person.  Travel Stage: Kentucky Date Range: May 19 – 25, 2016 Summary: We try our first boondocking location using our “Harvest Host” membership. We wind up on a Cheese Farm in South Central Kentucky where we learn a lot about cheese, dairy cows, and farm operations – plus save a pony’s life and do some landscaping. Harvest Hosts is a RV membership program that connects RVers with farms, vineyards, and other agricultural locations. It is a membership we’ve been thinking about getting for a while now, and we finally pulled the trigger when we ventured to southern central Kentucky, on our way north from Nashville.
Travel Stage: After the Great Smoky Mountains, before heading north Date Range: May 17 – May 19, 2016 Summary: We stay at a beautiful Army Corps of Engineers campground just outside of Nashville. We bike the city, check out Broadway Street, and get to see a friend perform some live music! CampgroundWe stayed at our first Army Corps of Engineers campground called Seven Points Campground next to the Percy Priest Lake in Hermitage, TN. This place was great – for $20/night we had full hookups and an awesome site on a beautiful lake. Every site was uniquely engineers with terraces, picnic table areas, and steps. Not to mention it was by far the cheapest thing we could find within 20 minutes of Nashville! Seven Points Campground offers 59 shady and spacious campsites, along with two large group picnic shelters. The campground features drinking water, a dump station, flush toilets and hot showers, creating a comfortable camping experience. A boat ramp and swimming beach are provided, allowing guests to take advantage of the vast, sparkling lake. Travel Stage: After Asheville, before Nashville Date Range: May 12 – May 17, 2016 Summary: We visit the Secret City that arguably won WWII for the allies. Ever hear of the Manhattan Project? Before the start of World War II many German scientists immigrated to the United States. Hitler had chosen his favorite scientists, ones who agreed with him on things like the superior race, and had set up his own definition of science and priorities for study. One of these priorities was around the creation of a nuclear weapon: an atomic bomb.
Travel Stage: After Asheville, before Nashville Date Range: May 12 – May 17, 2016 Summary: We cross the Blue Ridge Mountains over to East Tennessee. We stop at Bush’s Beans Visitor Center and visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park – and see some bears!! We took I40 across the mountains to Tennessee and ended up on road 411 to our next campground in Seiverville. We came around a bend in the road and there was the Bush’s Beans Factory and Visitor Center! 
Travel Stage: After Boone, Before Tennessee
Date Range: May 10 – May 12, 2016 Summary: Two short nights in Asheville. If you don’t go, you don’t know. Travel Stage: After Huntersville, Before Asheville Date Range: May 5 – 10, 2016 Summary: We stay at a Thousand Trails campground in Lenoir, NC. From here we visit Boone and hike Grandfather Mountain. When we visited Banner Elk and Boone last fall, we left with some unfinished business. We also had really liked the area and wanted to spend more time there in general. This time, we brought our house with us too!
Travel Stage: After Kitty Hawk, before Boone & Asheville Date Range: April 17 – May 4, 2016 Summary: After the Outer Banks of North Carolina blew us inland, we head back to the Farm in Huntersville/Cornelius area where we were in the fall to do lots of work. We are also joined by some fellow full-time RVers that we met just a few weeks before. Coming back to Huntersville (30 minutes north of Charlotte) again was like a sigh of relief. We had been travelling and touring pretty hard since Fishersville and had endured a fair share of bad weather. When we arrived back on the farm it was sunny and gorgeous out, and we knew we didn’t have to go anywhere for a couple weeks!
Travel Stage: From the Eastern Shore of Virginia we go to the Outer Banks of North Carolina Date: April 15 - 16, 2016 Summary: We head to the Outer Banks to visit the famous Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills. Plus, Tom’s cousin lives there! Despite the cold and wind, we tour the Wright Brothers National Memorial where the first manned flights happened and Jockey’s Ridge State Park where they have the largest sand dunes on the east coast! We left the Delmarva Peninsula and made our way back across the 22 mile, $22 Cheasapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. We rolled into Kitty Hawk that evening without a clue as to where we were going to stay. The Walmart parking lot greeted us with a big "NO OVERNIGHT PARKING" sign. That, coupled with the mile marker signs that are how everyone gets around really reminded us of our time in the Florida Keys. Minus, of course, the warm wonderful weather. We found the Outer Banks of North Carolina just as windy and frigid as the Eastern Shore of Virginia had been. We were going to be burning our propane tonight!
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