I decided that it might be appropriate for us to start a blog. I'm not sure who cares where we are, or what we're doing. But it might be a way to journal our travels in a concise, readily available way.
Today, we're in Knoxville, Tennessee. It's raining. Of the 8 days we've been here, it seems that it has rained on half of them. Though yesterday and Thursday were beautiful, sunny warm days. We're parked in the Escapees Raccoon Valley campground in Heiskell, waiting for our wayward mail to arrive. We've been here since 11/2.
Enough about the weather. Yesterday we did some touring in downtown Knoxville. The city was holding their Veteran's Day parade, though today is Veteran's Day. We had fun. We watched the parade for a while, then went to the Visitor's Center, which turns out to include the stage for a local radio station, that was having a live show by Jennifer Brantley, a local artist of the pop/bluegrass persuasion. After that we walked through the Market Square Mall. I believe that the day was a local holiday, as many things seemed to be closed. Our impression of Knoxville is that it is being rebuilt. Much renovation was going on downtown.
We did find a nice outfitters/department store downtown called Mast General Store. They sold Woolrich, Carrhart, and other heavy duty clothing, candy, boots/shoes, etc.
We left there around 2:00 to find a mid-century antique store called Nostalgia that Consuelo had seen advertised, and we did find it, after having lunch at Marble Stone Creamery. Turns out the ice cream was better than the antiques.
I took the first travel pics with the new cell-phone camera. It's not great, but having it along where ever we might go will be handy.
Knoxville Skyline
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