We drove our coach 198 miles, about three hours of driving, from Oakdale, Wisconsin to Maple Grove, Minnesota.

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

An interactive map:

Checklist:

Lunch stop:

Paladin on the dash while leaving the truck stop:

Roadworks:

Rest area:

I-94:

Chimney:

Minnesota Welcomes You:

Rest area:

Crossover:

Our destination, another KOA:

Guided to our site:

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: