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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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8:06 AM | Posted by Sharp's Travels
It rained all night, a nice gentle rain and was still raining this morning. Our plan was to leave Pigeon forge at 11:00 am as we only had 108 miles to go and we can’t check in to our next campground until after 2:00 pm. Well you know how good plans get changed. It stopped raining at 8:00 am and we decided to get the 5th wheel closed up and the motorcycle loaded before it started to rain again. Just as I finished loading the motorcycle it started rain again. So we were on the road by 9:15 am. We took our time going up over the mountain and Cheri took a lot of pictures of the fall colors, in fact she took 279 pictures. We decided that we would stop at a Wal-Mart and do some shopping to kill time before we could get into our campground. Plans changed again. About 11:30 am while we were driving the truck lost power which means the fuel filter needs to be changed. Just as we lost power there was a pull off along the highway that we pulled into. Yes it is still raining, from the time we left Pigeon Forge it was raining or a heavy mist coming down. We decided to have an early lunch and I told Cheri that after lunch I was going to change the fuel filter. When I went outside it was raining much harder. So we sat in the truck for a few minutes and it stopped raining. So I went to work on change the fuel filter. I got done and all the tools put away and it stated to rain again. Well we didn’t have to stop at a Wal-Mart as I used the extra time changing the fuel filter. It was 2:05 pm when we pulled into our campground where we will spend a week. It isn’t a very nice campground. We are stuck on top of a mountain with straight up and down roads to get to and from our site. We are in the trees, so no satellite TV. I thought that’s ok as we are on top of the mountain so we can get TV from our antenna. Nope, not one station to be found. Oh and we only have one bar of service on our cell phones, haven’t tied them to see if they will work. Oh one more thing we had to set up in the rain. So you wonder why we are staying a week. We booked the campground though our Coast to Coast membership and probably would lose our money if we didn’t stay. I think it is God’s plan for us to be here and spend some quiet time with him which is a good thing.
I have uploaded pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Pigeon Forge to Lakemont.

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