Returning to the Mothership

Wednesday November 15th 2017
 Piper and I started our adventure by heading west on I 40.  Going through the mountains on I 40 is a interesting experience especially when pulling a trailer. This is a two lane each direction mountain pass with lots of hills and curves.  Several fatalities occur on this road  each year when tractor-trailers try to take a curve too fast and flip.   I planned for two stops to get piper out so she could walk around during this trip.   Or total drive time should be about six hours so I'm trying to break it up every couple of hours.  

Our first stop was at Pet Safe dog park in Knoxville TN. This is the most awesome dog park I have ever seen.  Here is Piper with the dog statue at the park.

We got our second walk in at Lebanon Tennessee and then arrived at Oliver sales office  just after dark.   I pulled around back of the building to block noise from the road and got a great nights sleep.

Thursday November 16th
 Today we dropped or flank sea turtle off at the all of her production factory to get some work done and piper and I headed off to a local park to do some more walking.   We spent the day kicking around Hohenwald.  Many walks in the park and a trip up the Natchez Trace Parkway to visit fall hollow waterfall.
 Finally after about eight hours and being bored out of our socks the trailer was ready for pick up.  The folks at Oliver put in some overtime and managed to get almost everything taken care of in one day.  The best part is that our on board heater is now working again, fixed under warranty. We got some other minor warranty work done and a replacement bathroom window put in. I don't have any idea how the bathroom window got broken in the first place but at least now it's fixed.
Left Hohenwald at around 530 local time and drove three hours to Crossville Tennessee where we once again stayed at our friendly Cracker Barrel restaurant. Cracker Barrel's are pretty awesome places to stay when you're RVing. They have RV parking spaces and are always accommodating when you request overnight parking. Plus they make a pretty mean fried chicken BLT.