Onward towards Nashville

On Friday, we left Thousand Trails Natchez Trace on our way up toward Nashville...

Very near the entrance to the Thousand Trails (and the most direct route to/from the Natchez Trace Parkway), there is an 11'0" bridge... thankfully other campground reviewers had indicated the route to take to avoid this hazard (and our Garmin did too as long as it knew how big we were).

We were heading up to Franklin, Tennessee, hoping to connect with Ruth Ann and Keith...

We ran into heavy traffic as we got onto I-65 -- and there were two halves of a house on the road too (you can see one of the halves over there on the main lanes). As far as we could tell, the slowdown was just due to heavy traffic -- there was construction, but they weren't actively working. The two house halves had to take up two lanes - but they were back in the traffic with us, so, unless there were more house halves ahead of us, I don't think that was the cause.

Maybe because of the stop at Thousand Trails, or maybe just happenstance, our second "Galen block" has split apart. They are so named because Carl's cousin Galen had told us to look around his place and see if there was anything we could use for blocks for the jacks -- and we found these stacked sets of plywood. That was back in 2021, and they have served us well, though they have been bending quite a bit in some sites. The first one split as a result of our own mistake -- we forgot to take the blocks out when we were leaving a Harvest Host back in March and it got driven over -- pretty rough treatment to the block! We usually use the Galen blocks for the jacks in the front of Gracie, and 6"x6" "bus blocks" for the back jacks. Because of the campsite we were in at Thousand Trails (the front needed to be jacked up further), we used the Galen blocks in the back, which put more weight on them, which may have caused the second one to crack. Carl took a picture so he can send it to Galen and ask if the lifetime guarantee will apply!

We've stopped for the evening at a Harvest Host near Franklin (south of Nashville), Tennessee. It turns out that we won't be able to get together with Ruth Ann and Keith which makes us sad -- but maybe we'll be able to meet up with them somewhere else down the road! This picture shows Gracie in the background in her parking location as I'm being greeted by two of the canine greeters at the Harvest Host.

Continuing on our journey!