Day 1 of our trek south!
Trip Start
Jan 01, 2009
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Trip End
Dec 31, 2009
Crittenden, Kentucky
Saturday, October 10, 2009
We're staying in a park called Cincinnati South Rose Garden, but it's actually in Crittenden, Kentucky, and about a half hour south of Cincinnati. It's a pretty nice park, but I'm afraid we might not sleep a lot, since the railroad tracks run RIGHT behind our site - and the freight trains rumble through frequently, always blowing the required long-long - short-short blasts on the whistle as they go by the crossing! It will be a rude awakening, for sure!
Tomorrow, we'll drive about 4 hours to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, home of Dolly Parton, Dollywood, the Dixie Stampede, and the gateway to Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We'll stay there two days, so we have a chance to do some leaf-peeping!
Oh - for those of you who enjoy the statistics: We have traveled 3,440 miles in the motorhome this year (most of those miles were put on in April and May). We have used 392 gallons of diesel fuel at an average of $2.068/gallon. We get an average of 8.4 mpg, so the fuel cost per mile averages $.255. The cheapest diesel fuel we've purchased this year was $1.989/gallon in Missouri on April 29th. The most expensive was today's purchase in Beaverdam, Ohio at $2.539/gallon.
