We drove our coach 165 miles, about three hours of driving, from Park City, Kentucky to Elberfeld, Indiana.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:

An interactive map:

Toading up:

I-65 South:

Bridge:

Fun with zoom:

Exit to a service area:

Huck’s service plaza:

Lunch:

“The Journey is My Home”; that could be our motto:

Back to our coach:

I-165 North:

We had a fun new issue: we turned on our generator while driving, so we could run our air conditioners, it being rather hot. But when we tried to turn it off via the switch on the dash, it didn’t turn off. I also tried using the Coach Proxy web app, which also failed, and reported an error:

This has been a problem since; we’ll probably get it looked at when we go back to Red Bay in December. In the meantime, I have to open the generator compartment (once we stop, of course) and turn it off via the switch on the generator itself. A bit of a pain.

Owensboro water tower:

Rusty twin bridges over the Ohio River:

Ohio River:

“More to Discover in Indiana”:

I-69 North:

Road to the campground:

The GPS alleged that the road had a 10 ton weight limit, but it didn’t (I knew about that ahead of time from reviews of the campground):

Pond with water lilies:

Entering the campground; no human interaction required:

We just headed to our site:

We drove our coach 227 miles, about four hours of driving, from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to Park City, Kentucky.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:

An interactive map:

Dollywood:

Gocart track:

MagiQuest:

Leaning building:

Crossover intersection:

I-40 West:

Knoxville:

Fun with zoom:

Fuel stop:

A tank or something on a truck:

Our coach:

We went to the Iron Skillet restaurant at the truck stop for lunch:

Truckers chapel:

“Enter Central Time”:

Fun with zoom:

Rest area:

Monterey:

Livingston Highway:

Paladin asleep:

Fun with zoom:

Celina Highway:

Celina:

Horses sign:

Bathroom stop at a gas station:

“Welcome to Kentucky”:

A pond:

A horse and buggy sign:

Fun with zoom:

Paladin asleep:

Entering Mammoth Cave National Park:

The RV park’s office is across the road from the campground, at the Diamond Caverns attraction:

Paladin sat on the dash for the drive from the office to the campground:

Welcome:

We untoaded here:

Following the coach:

Our site:

We drove our coach 314 miles, about five hours of driving, from College Park, Maryland to Beaver, West Virginia. The beginning of our westward migration, heading towards our home base in Washington state.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:

An interactive map:

Toading up:

I-495:

Welcome to Virginia:

Paladin in his high place:

I-64:

I-66:

Fuel stop:

Tiffin Phaeton motorhome:

Apples on water tower:

We were going to park and have lunch at the fuel stop, but there wasn’t any parking that would work for us, so we continued on. There wasn’t any room at the next rest area either:

So I made lunch on the road:

A later rest area:

I-64:

Welcome to West Virginia:

Of course, we had to play John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” while entering the state:

Rest area:

I-64 hill:

7% grade:

Sandstone Mountain elevation 2,765 feet:

Little Beaver State Park:

Narrow sloping curve:

Narrow entrance:

Lake:

Very narrow road to campground:

Campground office:

Guided to our site:

We drove our coach 201 miles, about four hours of driving, from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Chocowinity, North Carolina. Another new state.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:

An interactive map:

Leaving the campsite:

A little narrow:

A tight turn:

Toading up:

Goodbye beach:

Exiting the state park:

Myrtle Beach Welcomes You:

A plane flying low over the highway; the airport is right next to it:

Blue water at mini golf:

Wax museum:

Another mini golf:

Yet another mini golf:

Crossing the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW):

Welcome to North Carolina:

We stopped at a Hardee’s for lunch, as they had RV-sized parking spaces:

Back at our coach, Paladin in his nest:

Exit:

Hey, there’s Jenn’s brother, Leland:

Northeast Cape Fear River:

Fun with zoom:

New River:

We stopped at a defunct car dealer parking lot; very few stopping opportunities (“stopportunties”) on this route:

Paladin took my seat when I used the bathroom:

An abandoned house:

Neuse River:

A fire lookout watchtower:

Arriving at our destination for a couple of weeks:

We drove our coach 187 miles, about three hours of driving, from Rutledge, Georgia to Columbia, South Carolina. The first of a series of new states for us.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:

An interactive map:

I was a bit concerned about leaving our site, as it was kinda steep:

But we managed without too much difficulty:

We left the park via Knox Chapel Road, to avoid a bad railroad crossing in downtown Rutledge:

We still had to go over an unlevel railroad crossing, but this was the best of the three options:

Nice new road surface:

Joining I-20 East, with an Eisenhower Interstate System sign:

Roadworks:

Fun with zoom:

A Southern swooper; we’ve noticed that Southern drivers tend to swoop in front of us, way too close for safety. Give some space before moving over, people!

We parked at a Love’s truck stop and went to the adjacent Waffle House for lunch:

Paladin waiting on the dash for us to return:

Entering South Carolina:

Paladin asleep:

Fun with zoom:

Exit to route 1:

Sesquicentennial State Park:

Entrance station:

Splash pad:

Campground entrance:

Our site:

Paladin on the dash while getting leveled in the site:

We drove our coach 332 miles, about six hours of driving, from Red Bay, Alabama to Rutledge, Georgia.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:

An interactive map:

Water streaming off our slide topper as we brought in the slide, from recent rain:

Toading up:

We left Red Bay via downtown:

SR-19:

On to I-22 East:

A bathroom break at a truck stop:

Our coach in travel mode:

Paladin in his nest on the stacked dining chairs:

Fun with zoom:

I-65 South:

Birmingham:

I-20 East:

Fun with zoom:

I-20 East:

A large load:

Fuel and lunch stop:

91.717 gallons:

Heading to the parking area, with Paladin on the passenger chair:

Parked:

We had Popeyes for lunch:

A branch on the roof; we found it on the truck when we arrived:

Talladega Superspeedway; apparently there was a NASCAR race on:

Eisenhower Interstate System sign:

Fun with zoom:

Welcome to Georgia:

Entering Eastern Time Zone, where we’ll be until July:

Another bathroom break at the Georgia Welcome Center truck parking:

Atlanta:

SR-11:

I chose this route to go over this railroad crossing, as the one in downtown Rutledge has a very high crown:

Horse properties:

Hard Labor Creek State Park:

RV check-in area:

Trading Post:

The camp host happened to be in the trading post when we checked in, so she offered to guide us to our site; that’s the driveway on the right:

Paladin surveying our steep driveway:

Yeah, doesn’t look very level: