On the road again... for real

Gentle readers,

Day 4 of our trip...  We've been busy with travel-related items and lack of Wifi passwords, but here we are, over 900 miles from home, in Delhi, Louisiana. We plan to visit Poverty Point Historic Park, an ancient Indian earthworks in north-eastern Louisiana. This is thought to be the largest earthworks of its type in North America and it's interesting to us because we've visited some of the earthworks in Ohio and also Matthew is studying Native American history in 4th grade.

So, we've been on the road 4 days.  We left on Monday, a day sooner than originally planned, but our actual "shove off" time was about 2 hours later than we wanted, so we didn't make the mileage we had planned.  Beth and Matthew did "RV schooling" while Bill drove.  This is part of our daily routine.  Our first night was spent in Elizabethtown, KY, just south of Louisville.  There are lots of logistics when you have a home on wheels, but the electric hookup and water connection worked fine.  We fell asleep listening to trucks on the highway (about 2 miles away) and the occasional train.

There were no national parks or major sights, so we don't have pictures of the first days.  Day two was spent driving to Cullman, Alabama.  A new state for Matthew!  We were in a very RURAL campground. The manager is a part-time Baptist minister and he mentioned that he has been to Ohio a few times.  Maybe he wasn't saying prayers for us, because we had lots of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.  This gave us time to do some schooling with the shaking of a moving RV and sort through stuff we had quickly loaded into the RV.  But things cleared by midday and we pressed on down the road.  We ended the day at a Jellystone campground in Pelahatchie, Mississippi.  It was a great site, but very cold.