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END OF MAY THRU JULY 2023

December 22, 2024

Though we enjoyed our trip very much, had lots of fun, saw some things we had only read about in books, magazines. or seen in movies, we were glad to be back home if only to get some rest and reflect on our adventures.

We had planted a garden back in March and it was time to harvest this thing upon our arrival home. Our next few days were focused on doing just that. Here are a few of our results. Lots of other things were planted but were either eaten by the local deer or just didn’t do well. We did get some corn and fresh green peas that we were able to freeze but the big crop was potato’s and zucchini.

Sunflowers we planted around the garden, Patty is 5’4″ 🙂
Some of our potato harvest.
Me as a farmer, not a watermelon but rather a zucchini, and we had lots of them.

As we drifted into June we did a baby’s reveal for my Grandson here on the property. It’s a boy! Did some visiting with relatives, some back road riding on the Victory then planning our next camping trip. In July we decided to set up a couple of camping trips back to back, first one is Fort Mountain in Georgia. Though it was July was very nice and cool especially at night up on the mountain. Did a little hiking, went down the mountain a few times to eat, sight see, and do some shopping.

Campsite-Ft Mountain, GA
Some hiking at Ft. Mountain

We had some extra time while there so went to tour “Brasstown Bald” the highest point in Georgia. Fantastic views with lots of history in the making, recommend a visit if your in the area.

Notice temperature, was in month of July.

After about a week at Fort Mountain, we proceeded to our next campsite, David Crockett State Park in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Great clean campsite, was a little crowded because unknown to us there was a huge quartet festival in Lawrenceburg which drew a lot of campers to town. It seems that Lawrenceburg, TN is the birthplace of southern gospel music so each year in July they celebrate with this festival. The official name is the James D. Vaughan Quartet Festival should you like to look that up and attend?

That pretty much gets us through the end of July. When we were actually home there was always the occasional motorcycle ride usually in late afternoon on the local back roads of NW Florida. 🙂

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The Trip Continues

December 9, 2024

Lot’s has happened since I last posted here but feeling so guilty about not finishing this TRIP, so here’s my attempt to get this done.

We left the beautiful cabin and our friends on the 21st of May 2023 around 7:30 am, drove 592 miles to The Lodge at Deadwood in South Dakota. Great scenery on the way such a beautiful drive. Really great place to stay, we plan a few days here plus it has a Casino. It’s convenient to the places we wish to visit while here.

Our agenda today (May 22, 2023) was to visit Sturgis and Deadwood, both near by. Sturgis was first on the list even though it’s not rally time, not many motorcycles but we did visit a lot of shops, got our t-shirts etc. and did a tour of the Motorcycle Museum. Another check off of the bucket list. Took lot’s of photos and then we’re off to Deadwood.

Deadwood was certainly not what we expected, maybe we never found the old town version. What we did see was lot’s of hotels and casino’s. We checked out a couple of the casino’s, played some, got tired and went back to our own hotel and casino, The Lodge @ Deadwood.

Next day 23rd. of May we were on our way to Mount Rushmore. On the way found this quaint little restaurant, Sugar Shack and ate a huge breakfast there. Had always wanted to visit Mount Rushmore, can now check that off the bucket list. Spent a good amount of time there, very interesting how it was built and the background behind it.

On our way back to the hotel we ran across this very interesting place Dahl’s Chainsaw Art in Keystone, SD which later we found had multiple locations. The art work was fantastic and hard to believe this could be done with nothing but a chain saw.

Then back to our hotel after a long beautiful day. Was raining by the time we got back to the hotel. Made decision to head home starting tomorrow, booked a room at the Harrah’s in Counsil Bluffs, Iowa for tomorrow night. Only $85 for the night, not bad. 🙂

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