Cinci = cold

I arrived at the FMCA campground about 1 pm on Friday after stopping at Best One Tire to get a new tire installed. My wallet feeling about $500 lighter but it was a cool and sunny day. Normally I would spend my 2 free days included with my membership and sometimes one additional day to enjoy the food that is so good here. This trip the weather has been very cold so I decided to only spend 2 days and move further south in hopes of eluding this cold.  Getting out of the city on Sunday morning is pretty easy.  It was 29 degrees when I got up on Sunday morning burr, I have been burning through propane like crazy to keep warm. I had the wet bay heater on to keep things warm in that part of the coach. The normal fun and excitement of being in Cincinnati wasn’t there this year, the cold had zapped that out of me. This leg of the trip is typically a fuel stop day and this one was interesting. I generally pick two or three places to stop to get fuel based on price and ease of getting in and out. I traveled to the first place that I  thought I could get in and made the turn but to my surprise, the road which looked like I could use on Google maps was not big enough and was blocked by a truck. So panic set in and now I needed to turn around so I could get back on the highway.  I got lucky and found a factory with a large parking lot which allowed me to swing the coach around then back to the highway. On to the second stop. Running low on fuel is never something that thrills me. Running out of fuel is not on my bucket list. Bad things happen when you run out of fuel.  This happened to be a small truck stop with a restaurant there. I managed to get in out of the tight drive getting my fuel and off to Singing Hills Rv park in Cave City.  The rest of the day was uneventful to speak.  

I usually enjoying Singing Hills park, the owners are great. I was able to get the spot I had last year which is easy in and out. The blasted cold seems to be following me. I am going to look at my route and perhaps change things up to get me into some warmer weather. More on that in the next post. The image is of my site at Singing Hills Rv Park

 

 

 

I-75 south

image of motorhome parked at the fair grounds
Looking from the grandstands at the fairgrounds

My stay in Bowling was great as it has been in the past, with one exception. Myles Pizza my favorite pizza joint closed before I landed in BG. That delicious pizza that filled my plate is no more because the owner decided he didn’t want to give the recipe away even to the new owner would buy it he said no. So the recipe goes with him to his grave and all the people who loved Myles pizza suffer, very sad.

It is always nice to visit with friends and I also installed a new surge protector. Another article on that later. Chloe enjoyed walking around the fairgrounds too.

I had ordered new tire valve extensions and had a local truck tire shop put them on. Well during the install we found out that I had a bad tire. They didn’t have the tire in stock plus their price was somewhat high. So I called Pomps whom I have purchased the tires from and they told me to check with Best One tire.

The day we left it was early, I wanted to get out early because the traffic around Cinci is usually bad. So I figured if I get out early I can get ahead of that traffic and get into the FMCA park early.

I stopped at Best One tire and had them put a new tire on the rear. They are submitting the old for a warranty claim, hopefully, I will get a fair amount back.