Well, today’s the day. We are on our way to Tennessee for the rest of the month. Robert and I have been stir crazy to get on the road and now the time has finally arrived.
We made the decision that this year we weren’t taking off for a month or so at a time. Although we have put a ton of miles on our vehicles so far this year, it’s been mainly between home on the farm and town for work projects (about 140 miles round trip). That’s not including all the travel we’ve done for Robert’s music gigs.
Our work schedule has been so busy this year. It’s hard to tell if we are coming or going.
Now it’s time for real travel. We had moved our rooftop tent (CVT) onto our Jeep and are headed east. Although this is a workcation, we are anxious to shake things up and bump out of our regular routine.
While I’m attending a copywriting conference in Franklin, Robert will be having Hamvangelist fun in New Market. He will enjoy Field Day with one of his HAM radio buddies, W4CEW.
On Monday evening, our hearts sank to see a transmission fluid leak on the Jeep.The rear output shaft seal on the transfer case needed to be replaced. Robert started taking things apart so that first thing on Tuesday morning, he could go get the new seal and put things back together again.
The repair was a pain but could have been a lot worse. While under the Jeep, he also noticed the rear swaybar bushing was bad. It came off in two pieces. Good thing he saw that and took care of replacing it before our trip.
All seems fine now with the Jeep and we have hit the road. Although we can easily make to Franklin in one day, we aren’t. What fun would that be? We have no idea where we’ll stay tonight, but we think that part of the fun is not having everything planned. We will take our time and will avoid Interstates for the most part.
Even though we’ve been to both Franklin and New Market before, our goal is to branch out and take some routes we haven’t been on and see some new things.
