New Orleans

After a casual drive, arrived in New Orleans at about 2.00 pm.
The RV behaved itself with no trace of overheating...
We now have to decide where and what to visit in NO for the next
2days or so. Will keep you posted.
Dirk

The First State Park.

It is a State Park called Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park.  For those of you who do not know about state parks, they are always beautiful, usually in amongst trees, with water and electricity connection but no Internet connection and usually very weak cell phone reception.

Went out to photograph the deer that had come to eat and met our neighbour. Needless to say they were gob smacked that we were all the way from Africa.  Had a good laugh, with them teaching us how to say New Orleans. It goes something like, Nuleens, all one word, all one pitch.

So after a very quick and easy supper, there was nothing else to do but have a good laugh watching the movie, Meeting the Fockers, our family thought this was an appropriate movie for us to watch.

After a good nights sleep, we were up early, cup of good coffee, walking shoes on and off for an early morning walk.  Did a short walking trail then went to the shop to get the directions to the Iron Works.  After exploring these and taking many photos we continued our walk back to the RV for breakfast, shower and on the road.  After a quick discussion with Henry, we decided to stop in a little place called Meridian, Mississippi to try and find a RV Center, once again they don't do engines.  Dirk has spent the best part of this afternoon, scouring the internet to find that this is a common problem, caused by a few things, but nothing fatal.  So tomorrow (Wednesday) we are pushing through to New Orleans to find a recognised dealer.  As long as it is only the engine that gets a little warm and we keep our cool, all will be well.

Overheating.

Thank goodness we had a rest day on Sunday, because today (Monday) turned out to be a little more nerve racking.  We left Nashville at about 9.00am went to the RV shop to check and pump the tyres, (ever tried pumping truck tyres?) then made a stop at Wall-Mart for a few things.  We're on the road again, cruising down the I65 in Tennessee, enjoying scenery etc, suddenly temperature goes up, with warning lights on, cools down going down hill. Exit the highway at Exit 334 to go to Hood RV Center, sorry sir, we don't look at engines, go across the road to Direct Inc, they will help you.  Joe the mechanic looks, scratches his head, not much communication goes on at this point. Eventually he tells Dirk, 'just back it up into the second garage.'  Dirk is very chuffed that Joe has so much confidence in his reversing abilities, but he did it very well. Joe uses air pressure to blow out the radiator core to get rid of dust and road dirt, then washes it and blows it dry again.  This cost us a whole $45.  We go for a quick test run and all seems OK, so off we go again. But once we are on the road again, Dirk has to nurse it up the hills.  We eventually get to our camp for the night at 5.15pm.

The Grand Ole Opry, Nashhville Tennessee

Arrived in Nashville at about 5.00pm after a pleasant but long drive..
Had to rush to get ready in time for the 7.00 pm show.

A lot of fun, for those that dont know, Nashville is the hub of Country music. The Grand Ole Opry is a Country and Western Radio/Tv show and has been going for about 85 years.

Today was oil service day.

The trip up the I75 was to the RV dealer to perform the oil change etc.
Tomorrow is grocery day and Saturday morning we set of on our travels.

Nearly ready to go.

We are in Dayton Ohio, another week or so and we will hit the road.
The RV looks even better in the flesh than in the pictures.

Ready and waiting

After some wonderfull work by our friends Henry and Faye the RV is ready and waiting for our arrival, 23 days to go, hope the snow melts before we arrive.