| May 23, 2002 Oh! Kentucky Campground Berea KY We landed here after a false start at another campground. Nice, grassy place well off the road. We treated ourselves to a full hookup, which meant that I tried out the bathtub for the first time. It was a bit like bathing in a hipbath (you can’t exactly stretch out) but luxurious all the same since I’ve had nothing but showers for the last 3 weeks. I once worked with someone who went to Berea College, so I am anxious to see the college and the town. Berea was started in 1855 by an Abolitionist missionary named Fell and was the only college in the South to educate both blacks and whites for 40 years. All students are on full scholarship, and are required to work for part of their tuition. Berea traditionally ranks very highly as a liberal arts college, but I had heard of it first as a place where traditional American arts and crafts were taught and kept alive in the Kentucky hills. Wonder if they need a hand papermaker in Berea? |
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| May 22, 2002 Ashmoor RV Campground Scottsburg IN Arrived here about 8 pm last night. Only took us 5 hours to break camp yesterday-thank goodness it doesn’t take that long to set up! Stopped at a truck stop in Seymour and had the rig washed. Ran out of propane last night, so we have no heat. I think we’ll be able to get on the road early-we’re making for Berea, KY tonight, after a stop in Louisville at Camping World. There IS no Camping World in Louisville! (sigh…) |
| May 20, 2002 Brown County State Park Nashville IN Today we pack up and head south. Before we leave BC State Park, some reflections - in our 10 days here, we have become intimately acquainted with the ritual known as the ‘poop run’. No, this is not where we run to the bathroom after eating our prunes…this is what Rvers must do when the gage on the ‘black water’ tank reads ‘Full.’ ‘Black water’, for the uninitiated, is the poop tank. We also have a ‘gray water’ tank - dishwater, bathwater, etc., and both must be emptied on a regular basis, at least enough to make room for more. We can go for about a week without emptying the black water tank, about 4-5 days with the gray water. This is fine if you only stay somewhere about a week, since you can dump the tanks on leaving a campground. But what if you’re full, but you don’t want to hook up the trailer, drive down to the dump, drive back, unhook, and level the trailer? Well, someone came up with a little device known as the ‘tote’, a heavy plastic container on wheels that will hold 11, 22 or more gallons of ‘whatever.’ You hook up this little container to your tank, fill it up, and run it down to the dump instead, dragging it behind your car or truck. |
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