The time has finally arrived and we are off on our annual family vacation. Despite the high price of gas and food, we are taking this trip. We are taking 12 days to travel around all of Tennessee. We did not get a vacation last year as we instead sent Julian to England, Wales and Ireland. So this year instead of heading to the west or to Florida or New England, we decided to stay a little closer to home. After jamming in just about everything you can do on the 4th of July, we packed up on the 5th and headed east to Cinncinnati Ohio to visit on of my best all time buddies, Dave H. (BFShaman for those on XBOX LIVE) I have know Dave for almost 20 plus years and he and I are very good friends. Dave and I drove out motorcycles to Boston many years ago, spent way too many days and nights hanging out, waiting for the night clubs to open and basically feeding off of one another's energy. Time and life have taken us to different parts of the country but we try to remain in touch and close. So seeing that it would be inexcusable to not visit we dropped in for a two night stay. We did not plan much as we wanted to visit mainly. What we did do, is get spoiled rotten by Dave's girlfriend Lauren who was the consumate hostess and cook. We could not have had better hospitality if we had stayed at a 5 star hotel!! It was a great visit! We did some gaming on the XBOX and with some board games, we went looking for a geocache (unsuccessfully)at a town park that looked every bit like a Forest Preserve, and watched a movie. It was a great time to relax and visit and catch up. Unfortunately we had to leave on Monday to head to Gatlinburg for our stay at the KOA campground in Townsend. We arrived there to find a complete wooded and shaded camp site about 50 yards from the river. More to follow tomorrow.
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