Oct 23 - On to the Natchez Trace Parkway, Hohenwald, Tennessee

    Our next campground was a Thousand Trails park, located in Hohenwald, Tennessee.  It was a long, 5 hour drive.  But I had forgotten how pretty Tennessee is.  There are big, rolling hills, and trees grow everywhere the land isn't cultivated.  They line the highways.  Everything is green.  And, there were huge fields of cotton growing.  I have never looked over a farm field and seen a blanket of white.  Usually it is green or even gold, but never white.  

   The campground is the largest Thousand Trails park that we have been to.  There is a big lake, and three different RV or cabin areas.  And the park itself is very manicured and nicely maintained.  However, the RV sites are some of the worse we have been to.  Many of the sites were eroded away so badly, that you couldn't park an RV on them.  And, of the many, many RV sites, there were only a few full hook-ups.  So, we arrived to find out there were only water and electric sites available.  And, we are here for 3 nights.  Oh well.  We finally found a site to our liking, nowhere near the lake.  However, when we hooked up to the water spigot, it had two small holes in the metal, so water spurted out all over.  We ended up hooking up to the next site's water spigot, since that site was so out of level, no one would choose it.  And, there was only one bath house, located quite a distance from the site.  Oh well, no showers, so we won't need to  unhook and zip over to the dump station, then re-level and re-hook up.

  Now that we have travelled around the country, along the east, west and southern coastlines, where the majority of Thousand Trails campgrounds are located, we are starting to question whether we still need this membership.  Since there are very few Thousand Trails campgrounds in the center of the country, we have been staying at a lot of Good Sam and Passport America discounted RV parks, which seem to be much nicer parks, even if they are the "parking lot" style, versus the "State Park" style.  And, you can reserve a specific site, with full hook-up, whereas Thousand Trails are on a first-come-first-served basis.  

   We needed to drive into Hohenwald, to pick up Peter's prescriptions at the local Walmart, so we found a little restaurant for dinner that had a good bean burger.  Peter never has trouble finding something to eat in rural America.  Back to the RV and to bed early.

No photos today.