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and the color for today is....grass green...and sunny and 54....We stopped by Fort Knox today and things have changed in 40 years. All of the old wooden, WWII, barracks have been replaced with nice brick buildings. Just like the real world. Anne's old hospital is still there, only bigger and better. The airfield I flew out of is there but I didn't have clearance to go in and look around. We are in Northern Alabama tonight and headed towards the

Florida panhandle by Sunday. We have slowed down, now that we are far enough South that the water lines on the RV won't freeze overnight. The hot water wouldn't flow this AM as it was slushy...I had fun this afternoon. We had stopped for gas and all of the windshield water wash buckets were empty...I opened the main drinking water drain on the RV and filled all of them in about 4 minutes. (I was carrying too much fresh water as it was and was looking for a place to off load it )

 

NEW FEATURE on the blog. Things I learned today.

 

Davy Crockett. Real name David

Jack Daniels . Real name John

The Saturn 1b rocket pictured, was used for the early Apollo shots. The Saturn V, used for the lunar missions was 144 feet taller. (taller than a football field is long)

And every mile I travel out of state, I'm thankful for Michigan's bottle law and the Adopt-A-Hiway program.

The Tennessee River and it's flood plain are amazingly wide (it looked like the Mississippi River at St Louis).