South-East Tour Day 0 - Getting Ready

Starting tomorrow (technically today since it is past midnight) we will be heading off for a two week adventure across the South-East in our 1980 Volkswagen.

We will be heading West to New Orleans, which I've been really wanting to visit for quite some time. We will then head North to Nashville, going back East through Nashville to Asheville, NC, then back down South and probably home.

We still have not yet planned our trip past Asheville, but it will probably involve a stop in Augusta, GA and a final stop at the Okefenokee Swamp State Park.

I have been able to use this trip as a way to motivate us to get some things done on the van that I've been meaning to take care of for quite some time.  I had my mechanic do some major engine work.  Kim and I also made curtains for the windows.  In fact, we just got done after midnight finishing the curtains.

The three girls are really excited about this trip, and Arianna has asked practically every day, "Are we going to start our trip tomorrow?"  Some mornings she'll even ask if the trip is starting that day.  So tonight I made a big deal out of how we would be leaving first thing tomorrow morning.  So yeah, we're all pumped.

Here's what we have planned so far.

216 miles. 4:29

Saturday 6/11: Pensacola, Fl Big Lagoon State Park Sites 50 & 51

222 miles.  4:43

Sunday 6/12: New Orleans Bayou Segnette Site CI074

Monday 6/13: New Orleans Bayou Segnette CI074

180 miles. 3:46

Tuesday 6/14: Natchez Trace Parkway Natchez State Park 044, Campground B

Wednesday 6/15: Memphis, TN Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park

Thursday 6/16: Memphis, TN Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park

6/17: Nashville, TN Seven Points Campground

Saturday 6/18 - Nashville, TN Seven Points Campground

Sunday 6/19 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tenn. Elkmont Campground, site A7

Monday 6/20- Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tenn. Elkmont Campground, site A7

Tuesday 6/21- Lake Powhatan State Park Asheville, NC Site 21

Wednesday 6/22- Georgia Somewhere

Thursday 6/23 - Georgia Somewhere

Friday 6/24- Okefenokee Swamp State Park

Saturday 6/25 - Drive to Tallahassee

Katie, Kim's sister, will be watching our cat for us.  We have paid an animal sitter to watch our dog Mollie.  I've now got to get back to the rest of our packing so I can hurry up and get to bed.

Oh yeah, and Kim has her own blog going on at http://baucumfamily.blogspot.com/