So look what we hauled off and did~ ! ~ We went up to a campground that has bluegrass festivals - since I was last there the place has grown 3 times what it used to be, in something like 7 years!! ~ We bought tickets not that long ago, and early on Wednesday morning, we finished packin' up the Bus, and headed out to the festival - The music started on Thursday afternoon, but on Wednesday night there was a big "Bean Pot" - covered dish dinner, so we made sure to get to the campground in time to have some free food!! ~ It was Deeeelishouuuusss!!!

We got this site, because we don't have a motor home (are you aware that those big things cost somewhere around $75,000 to START??!!) or travel trailer, so we got a "rough camping" site, and since we got there early, we had our choice of this site next to the pond (stocked with fish) or another site near where me & noah & Gabriel camped when the place had their first bluegrass festival - I did not even KNOW this part of the park existed, 'cause it was all covered in woods. Since '02 the owner has cleared, put in sites, and cleaned the place up - and we were given this spot!!! ~ WOW ~ ! ~ I told people who walked by while they were hiking around the pond, "This is the only way I could afford water front property!!" -

Wednesday was rainy, an' we took our time gettin there...Tom took a "short cut" - an' a trip that should have taken 3 hrs MAX...took 5 - the route went thru 3 cities, and every da%^&^$& blasted STUIPED stop light - WE HAD TO STOP!!! ~ I don' think there was one $#^^&"%") light that didn't turn red when we got up to it...then when we stopped so we could stretch our legs at a truck stop near the highway we needed to use to get to the campground...my foot accidently snagged on the cord for Tom's phone charger, and the cord got ripped off from it's plug...we got to the campground, and the shelter we bought to keep us dry in case it rained...didn't come with directions...

It didn't look too good at the beginning....

But look at how it turned out!! ~ Thursday and Friday were wonderful - great music, and we used a cheapy bbq grill ($7.00) to cook our meals on, with firewood we brought from here...that worked out GREAT!! ~ Yummmy dinners with mushrooms, onions, homestyle potatoes and some sliced ham...Chicken just browned with onions...OH I'm tellin you!! ~ WE had us a TIME!!

So we drove home on the route I'd originally TOLD TOM TO USE (no, I'm not mad..just sayin'...) and we got back down here yesterday in wayyy less time than it took to get up there...an' the rain of Sat., Sat. nite and most of yesterday morning had all gone away, an' we had a good trip back. Well worth all the nightmare weird things that happened on Wednesday.

And the Bus ran like a dream~ !! ~ People really looked at the Bus..a lot of people didn't know what to think...an' some just acted like they didn't wanna see it..oh well, that's THEIR problem. All I know is for the first time in nearly 7 years, we had a vacation!! ~ Boy Howdy, an' it was a good time.


But now the mundane world is ready to slam me upside the head..so I gotta start the business of making phone calls..paying bills...blahhckk....


But what about that Bus?? ~ ! ~

I'm Gone .............


Lady of The Tulips