Road Trip Facts:
Always take the opportunity to fill the gas tank, there are no guarantees there will be a gas station around that next corner.
There is little to no traffic at 3am, makes for great driving and makes up for tired swerving (jk).
Blogging on a cell phone is useful but easier the smaller your fingers are.
Todays plan:
Wait do we have a plan? not today, just visiting a good friend.
What I learned:
I have heard a lot about water moccasins, which as it turns out will fall from a tree right into a fishing boat if they are frightened. They are also just a nasty poisonous snake. Yuck!
I learned that during world war two an Atom boom was being built in Oakridge. The government came in and bought farms from the farmers at pour prices, and then up went the walls. Pretty soon there were trains bringing in tons of different materials, but no one in the surrounding towns could tell what was going on. Best of all nothing ever seemed to come out from behind the walls, so people finally made up their own stories about what was in there. Maybe they were working on a special paint so the submarines wouldn't be able to see surface boats anymore? What story would you tell if you saw all this going on? What would you think was being made?
We learned that there are several dams north of Knoxville called TVA Dams, which were built to bring power to the people living in the more rural areas. The people doing the building would make small towns and when it was done they moved on and the towns remained even today.
That was our morning, after which we slept, relaxed, and then the evening came and we were ready for more...
