Our notes and a few snapshots of our trip to Overland Expo West 2018 Stats: Vehicle: Rented 2018 VW Tiguan Total Miles Traveled: 2566 Total Gallons: 98.6 Avg Cost Per Gallon: $2.760 Average MPG: 26.03 Time Odometer Notes Photo Sunday, May 13, 2018 9:17 AM 1945 Left Springfield House 9:20 AM 1947 Stopped at …
Travel Log | Solar Eclipse Trip | August 2017
Traveled a total of 523 miles with average 17.73 MPG. Vehicle: 1998 Jeep Wrangler Time Odometer Notes Photos 08/20/2017 10:48 am 192919 Left Caplinger Mills, MO home base. Travelled on Hwy N to Hwy 39 to Hwy 54 11:48 am 192969 Crossed into Kansas 12:30 pm Turned north onto Hwy 59 …
Travel Log | MO to TN | June 2017
On every trip, Robert and I keep a travel log. Actually, we only keep a travel log for the trips that are more than a weekend get-away. Not only do we keep track of our mileage, we like to make notes of times and places along the way. We’ve done this for years and thought …
Day 4 — Tims Ford State Park for the Day
We stayed put at Tims Ford State Park for the day. We needed to get some work done and since I figured out that we had some Verizon MiFi signal, we felt a ton better to get something accomplished. The Internet wasn’t lightning fast, but it sure workable. After work was done, we did some …
Day 3 — Started Soggy then Had A Little Meltdown
Sunday morning was a little soggy. That didn’t deter us though. We folded up the tent and left our campsite by 7:15 a.m. We stopped at the entrance so that we could take some photos, check the tires and make a smoothie. We were just under a quarter tank of gas, so we headed to …
Day 2 – Quirky Festival and Meriwether Lewis National Monument
It was Saturday and we took our time in getting up and around. By 9:20 a.m., we were packed up and headed toward Centerville, TN to the National Banana Pudding Festival. He headed east on Hwy 100 toward Centerville. At 11:45 a.m., we arrived in Centerville and enjoyed a craft fair on the square and …
How Many Ways can you make Banana Pudding?
Who knew there was a festival celebrating banana pudding? We certainly didn’t, until we stopped at the Tennessee welcome center and saw a poster advertising the 6th Annual National Banana Pudding Festival. It just so happened that the festival was in Centerville, TN the very weekend we were to be in the area. Of course …