I can't believe it has been so long since I contributed anything to my blog. Sam has completed his 6 months with the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Battlefield Park and we have left Holiday Trav-L Park. We are now at John Tanner Park in Carrollton, GA, We'll be here for about 2 weeks for our grandson's 7th birthday party on 10/9.

Happy Birthday Kyle!!!! (Today, 10/5)

We're leaving here on 10/12, heading to Manatee Springs State Park in Florida. We will arrive there 10/13. We will stop for one night in Georgia at Georgia Veteran's State Park. We'll probably stay at Manatee for a week or so before heading further south to Rainbow Springs State Park. There are a lot of 'day use' state parks in the area that we want to check out and get stamped in my Florida State Parks Passport book.

DS, Scott and DIL, Angelia and grand kids, Mackenzie and Ethan, visited us at the campground near Chattanooga on the last weekend we were there. They all went to the Chattanooga Choo-Choo and the Tennessee Aquarium. The kids really had a ball. My mother even made the trip with them for the weekend. We had a great visit and ate too much, as usual!

Tonight I plan to spend some time catching up on my blog reading. I am wayyyyyyyyy behind!

Angelia with Ethan & Mackenzie at the Choo-Choo.

Mackenzie and Ethan.....so cute!

Mackenzie on new scooter at the campground near Chattanooga.

Looks like we'll be leaving here (Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Battlefield Park) by the end of September, about 9/27 or so. Sam's last day to work is Friday 9/24, just 3 more weeks.

We're going down to John Tanner State Park for a couple of weeks to visit and get doctor appointments done. We'll probably leave there on 10/13, after grandson Kyle's birthday, and head south. We may stop in south Georgia for a day or two on the way to Florida. We haven't decided exactly where in Florida...........just around the general area of Chiefland (Manatee Springs S.P.) and Cedar Key. We're looking forward to some down time, just goofing around in Florida. We may take a campground host position at O'Leno State Park, just north of Gainesville (FL) for November and December.


Manatee Springs

Another sweltering day of 99! So much for being in the mountains. I checked the elevation on World Atlas. This area is actually at a lower elevation than Samantha's (in Douglas County) or Mother's (in Gwinnett County).

Catoosa County, GA, and the surrounding area, including Chattanooga in Hamilton County, TN, has an average elevation of between 670' and 810', with a few areas over 1000. Of course, Lookout Mountain is the exception. Besides Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, there are no mountains around here. Elevation in Douglas and Gwinnett Counties average around 1065' to 1090'. Lake Lanier (our lake) in Gwinnett and Hall County, GA, is shown as 1076' at the Dam. Corps of Engineers calls it 1070' at full pool.

FYI, elevation at St. Andrews State Park in Panama City, FL, is 3'! ;-) I'm lovin' it.

Is it just mine, or are all grand children beautiful??

Best laid plans............

Woweee...been gone for a while! The dog ate my computer cord. ;-(

We bit the bullet and I ate my words and now we are in Rossville, GA, and Sam is once again working for the Feds at the Chickamauga & Chattanooga Nat'l Military Park. Oh well...money does talk.

We left Tanner SP on April 10 and headed up to James Floyd SP, on our way to Rossville. We stayed there for a week...it is a beautiful park...similar to Tanner only bigger. Sam started his new position on April 12 and "commuted" from Floyd. The next weekend we moved up to Rossville to the Holiday Trav-L-Park. It looked better this time, now that the dogwoods were blooming and the grass had greened up. It's a lot like the park by the same name that we stayed at in Del Rio, TX last year. We did get a site on the end of the row so we are looking out on the main road and can see all the "comers and goers".

We are just about 3 hours from family and are going to visit them all on Friday, 5/7, after Sam gets home from work. It does maintenance work....drives the company truck to Lookout Mountain every day (about 15 minutes away) and that will be his territory for the duration, I guess.

I will post some pictures as soon as I get a new cord for the computer. There's not a whole lot to do around here. We've already been to Ruby Falls, Rock City & Lookout Mountain in prior years. There is a River Boat Cruise we may take one day and the River Walk in Chattanooga (15 minutes) is pretty. Largest mall in Tennessee is just 10 minutes away. Everything is really close because Chattanooga is not that big. There are probably 5 Walmarts within a 15 mile radius. No matter where you go, there is always one handy! :-)