Wow, definitely way more yellow than black on this map! This morning we pulled chocks in between rain storms this morning in West Virginia. Our travels took us out of West Virginia, through Tennessee to Asheville North Carolina. The rain followed us, off and on, the entire trip today. It's too bad as the landscape through the mountains was incredible. It would have been awesome to see it on a sunny day.
We passed through two tunnels, the East River Mountain Tunnel in Rocky Gap Virginia, and the Big Walker Mountain Tunnel in Wytheville Virginia. I don't know what it is that is so fascinating about tunnels. Maybe it is the amazing engineering and massive construction required to complete them.
The rain continued nearly the entire trip, but we did squeeze in a couple pottie stops along the way.
The clouds were right on top of us!
Somewhere near Bristol TN in the midst of the nasty rain there was a severe motor vehicle crash on the northbound Interstate. Thankfully we were southbound. We could see traffic backed up for miles and miles northbound. With the heavy rain and reduced visibility I am surprised there were not more wrecks.
Sort of a neat picture with the varying visibility through the mountains
At 1326 hrs we rolled into Wilson's Riverfront RV Park and got setup quickly. The sites here are all back-in's, paved and full hook-up 50 amp. Some back up to the French Broad River, and the others like ours back up to the I-240 off-ramp!
The muddy French Broad River
A semi passing on the off-ramp
No neighbors yet on our off-door side, but adequate room.
A neighbor on our door side, but good room in between.
Down the middle of our campground is a biking/walking trail.
We are excited that our great friend and military comrade from Georgia Brad Herren and his wife Beth are coming here to visit us. Originally they had planned to camp with us but since then they have put their camper up for sale so instead they will be spending a night in a nearby motel and spending time with us exploring Asheville! We might even have a bourbon or two just for old times sake!
While here we plan to see the Biltmore Mansion, a radio museum, Asheville Museum of History, Lexington Glass Works, Woolworths Store Walk, Pinball Museum, Asheville Gem Mine and the Basilica of St Lawrence Deacon and Martyr. We will be here today (Tuesday the 30th) and will depart Monday 5 August for Chattanooga TN.
Stats: This is campground #31 of 42
# States Traveled Through So Far This Trip, in order: 24 (IA, MO, KS, OK, TX, AR, MO, IL, IN, OH, PA, NY, VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, NY, PA, MD, WV, VA, TN, NC)
# States left to visit on this trip: 9 (TN, AL, MS, LA, TX, OK, AR, MO, IA)
Baseball Parks Visited So Far This Trip: 2 (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City OK; Texas A&M Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park)
Lighthouses visited: 13 (Olcott Lighthouse, Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse, Old Orchard Lighthouse, Tibbetts Point Lighthouse, Rock Island Lighthouse, Whitlock Mill Lighthouse, Mulholland Lighthouse, Lubec Channel Light, West Quoddy Head Light, Portland Head Light, Ram Island Ledge Light, Cape Elizabeth Light East, Cape Elizabeth Light West
Lighthouses climbed: 1
Point to point travel miles: 6498 miles
- Avg point to point travel miles between campgrounds: 197 miles
Vicinity miles: 3798 miles
- Avg vicinity miles: 123 miles
Total miles driven: 10296 miles
Total point to point driving time: 136 hrs 31 minutes
Total diesel fuel purchased: 709.510 gals
Total diesel fuel cost: $3533.98
Average diesel fuel cost/gal: $3.776
Max diesel fuel cost: $4.499 (Wilson NY)
Min diesel fuel cost: $3.179 (Corpus Christi NAS TX)
Avg MPG: 11,52 miles/gal
Cost/mi of operation: $0.34
# Nights at end of this stay: 143 (Includes Griff's start)
Total lodging cost: $6921.42 (includes Griff's start)
Average cost/night: $48.40
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