Today we are moving on (how often have I started a blog page with this sentence). Unfortunately this mean's that having had a lovely week (tornado watch apart) we must say goodbye to our good friends. They are returning home to Florida, to continue with their life, while we will hitch up the trailer and move on to Chattanooga in Tennessee, just (read on). We have had an uneventful journey today. The Tennessee River is very impressive, so big, so far from the sea, bigger because of all the rain we have had this week, many fields and streams are flooded. Huntsville is on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains, which start at Birmingham, Alabama in the south. Our drive today takes us well into the mountains, though they aren't as tall as those further north they are quite impressive. Chattenooga is bigger than we had thought (expecting only a railway station), it has one major road passing through it, which takes local traffic, I75 North and South and I56 east to west all together. The entire length was almost at a standstill the whole time. We have parked in a small campground in the middle of Chattenooga, part of the Camping World store. The bad news is that it is close to I75. The good news is that we cannot hear the traffic. The bad news is that the noise of traffic has been drowned out by the local speedway track right next door. Oh well.
Camping World is right on the border between Georgia and Tennessee, the office is in Georgia and we camp in Tennessee, the good news here is that we only pay 7% sales tax, rather than the 9 1/4% sales tax for Tennessee.
We have come to Chattanooga to visit famous Civil War Battle sites: Lookout Mountain and Chiccamugua, as well as to find out about the train. More tomorrow.
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