May 5 – Cades Cove to Chattanooga

It continued to rain thru the night and into the morning. We packed up the last couple of items and started back to Chattanooga. We enjoyed our time in the Great Smoky Mountains. It’s difficult for any mountain area to compare to Yosemite and the Sierra Mountains of Northern California.

Mary and I are both native Californians. One thing we always have questioned is why car manufacturers put a high speed setting on wiper controls. Even in the most severe California rainstorm, we are pretty content with the wiper set to low. Tennessee provided that answer. About half way back to Chattanooga, the sky opened up and the rain poured down. Even on high speed, the wiper couldn’t keep up. I wonder why car manufactures don’t put a hyper speed on wiper controls?

We are now safely back at the Best Holiday Trav-L Park in Chattanooga. This is the park we stayed at last weekend. Time to do laundry, take much-needed showers, and organize the RV for the next leg of our travels.

Tomorrow, we’ll read the Sunday paper from cover-to-cover, watch a little tv, and just relax.

Monday morning, we are going to pick up our mail that was packaged and sent general delivery to the Chattanooga post office. Then we are heading north. We are going to see a couple special places, like the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. At one time I owned a 1984 Corvette… but that’s another story. Also, the big annual Amateur Radio Convention in Dayton Ohio runs from May 18th thru the 20th. This afternoon, we made our reservations at the KOA Campground in Dayton for that weekend.