Bike Ride

Tuesday, October 8, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Mike worked 5 hours today, from 6:00 to 11:00am.  He was up early and I got up shortly after he left and turned on the news.  I saw that the lunar eclipse was happening this morning.  I tried to take a picture of it and below is my attempt.  :)

It was really cool to see.  Gracie did not really care, she was just happy to be outside really early.  :)

Mike said his training is going well.  He is just hoping he remembers how to use the scanner.  He said the pace is fast, but his group was keeping up well.  Tonight a couple of auditors will go through the items they put away (stowed) and let them know how they did tomorrow.  :)

This evening Mike wanted to see how long it would take him to ride his bike to Amazon, so he aired up the tires on our bikes and off we went.  We only made it about 1.75 miles when my front tire suddenly went flat.  :(   So I walked the bike to the Dollar General parking lot, while Mike headed back to the campground to pick up the Suburban.  At this rate it will take him a very long time to ride to Amazon.  :)  I will have to get a new tire for my bike before I can try again.

Once back at the trailer, we heard a model airplane flying at the field across the street.  So we leashed up Gracie and headed across the street.  We sat and watched Roger fly his plane and chit chatted with him and his wife for about an hour.  It was a lot of fun.  Gracie had fun also.  :)

It was getting late and the sun was setting, so we once again headed back to the trailer.  We heated up our leftover stew and enjoyed our dinner.

It was another wonderful day!

Mike's First Day at Amazon

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

In the 4:00am hour our weather radio went off approximately 5 times.  We did not get much sleep during this hour.  Mike's alarm went off at 5:30am.  Mike headed for Amazon around 7:20am.  He said today was boring. Lots of training.  Ho Hum.  :)


His shift will be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 6:00am to 4:30pm.  His will be working in the stowing department.  They said he will be on his knees a lot stowing items on the lower shelves.  He said there is not any real organization to their stowing.  We will see.  :)

He will only be working 5 hours for the next 3 days and all 4 days next week.  This is their way of gearing you up for all of the walking.  :)

Before dinner we took Gracie for a nice long walk.  When we first left the trailer it was sprinkling, so I did not think it would be a long walk, but it only rained for a couple of minutes.  I did not start th MapMyFitness app, so I did not know how far we walked.  I thought I started the app once we turned around, but I must have hit the pause button before I put my phone in my pocket.  We are not sure how far we walked, but we are guessing 3 miles.  :)

When we got home we had beef stew for dinner.  It was really good!

It was another wonderful day!

Stormy Day

Monday, October 6, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Today was a stormy day.  Our weather radio was busy today.  I have a feeling it will be busy tonight also.  That means Mike will not have a good nights sleep just before starting his new job.  It actually did not rain that much here, but north of here, they got a lot of severe  thunderstorms.

We did not do much else today.

It was another wonderful day!

Nothing Special

Sunday, October 5, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

This morning we got up and headed for Our Lady of Perpetual Help for 10:00am Mass.  It is a very nice church.  There are three catholic churches in the area.  Our Lady of the Hills has the Vigil Mass at 5:00pm on Saturdays, Our Lady of Fatima has Mass at 7:45am and Our Lady of Perpetual Help has Mas at 10:00am.  We plan to attend Mass at the other 2 churches as well while we are in the area.

We went to Creek Side Family Restaurant for breakfast, but found out they do not serve breakfast.  So we had lunch.  :)  We had there buffet and it was really good.

We needed to get our grocery shopping done, so we stopped by Kroger's to pick up this weeks groceries. 

We did not do much else today, but we did take Gracie for a walk over to the model airfield right across the street from the RV park.  Mike wanted to read the sign to find out the name of the model air group that the field was associated with.  Hopefully we will have a good weekend that he will be able to go over there to do some flying.  :)

It was another wonderful day!

Some Hiking

Saturday, October 4, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Today it was sunny out, but the temperature was chilly and it was windy!  We decided to take Gracie a walk down the dead end road just down from the campground.  We thought there would not be any traffic, but there was a lot more traffic, then we thought.  As we got down the road we found there was a parking lot for a hiking/horse trailhead.

Then at the end of the road is the Green River Ranch Campground.  This is another campground on Amazon's list and we thought about staying there, but the day I was calling they were having a problem with their phone system and I was unable to call them.  This morning we meet Erin, an owner.  We stood and talked with her for about 30 minutes.  We found out they only have 10 full hook-up sites.  If we come back to Campbellsville in the future, we may check into staying at this campground...

We finally got back home, had some lunch, then headed out to see the sites in the area.  First we went to Green River Lake Arny Corps of Engineers Visitor Center.  It was a very nice center, there were lots of hands-on activities for kids.

Next we went on a hiking trail right outside the visitor center.  It took us out to an outlook point on Green River Lake.

Gracie really liked it.  :)  Then we walked back up the trail to another area.  Gracie decided to jump over the wall, so I had her come back over and Mike took a picture.

We then headed for the base of the dam.  There is a nice little park down there also.

The Green River Lake State Park was our next stop.

This park is right across the road from the RV park we are staying at.  The RV park is in the background of this picture.

We were going to do some hiking, but the trails were closed due to a 4-H group doing some shooting competition.  Instead the state park had a small corn maze near the entrance and it was free, so we decided to try it out.  It is not the same walking a corn maze in the day light.  :)  But it was fun.

It was another wonderful day!

Dinner with Phil and Tandy

Friday, October 3, 2014 - Bowling Green, KY

This morning I got up early, so I could get started working.  I knew we would be headed for Bowling Green this afternoon to meet Phil and Tandy for dinner, so I wanted to get started working early.  :)  I was able to get a walk in for Gracie in between the rain storms. 

During the night last night the awning automatically retracted.  It woke me up, but when I heard it I thought someone was landing an RC helicopter on our roof.  I was so convinced that I even thought about waking Mike up to check it out.   Shortly there after it started raining and the wind was blowing harder, so I asked Mike if the awning came in.  And he said "Yes, it just did".  In the morning I did tell him about the helicopter and we both got a good laugh from that one.  :)

Around 3:00pm we headed for Bowling Green.  The plan was to meet Phil and Tandy at Rafferty's at 5:00pm.  Mike found a Camping World in Bowling Green, so we decided we would stop there first to pick up some more leveling blocks.  It just so happened it was on the same exit as Rafferty's.  :)

After shopping at Camping World, we found we were going to be at the restaurant a couple of minutes late, so Mike sent a text message to Phil.  Phil wanted to know where?  Mike said the restaurant.  We arrived, but Phil and Tandy were not there.  Come to find out Bowling Green is on Central Time.  We were an hour early.  :)

Phil and Tandy arrived about 30 minutes later.  We had a wonderful time and dinner was pretty good.  We were there for about 3 hours.  We were really happy Phil and Tandy contacted us to let us know they would be in the area.  :)

It was another wonderful day!

Move to Campbellsville

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Once again the plan was to be on the road between 9:00am and 9:30am...well today we made it!  We pulled out of the campground at 9:20am!  And we were making good time.  The GPS showed we were going to arrive in Campbellsville about 1:15pm.  We knew it was going to take longer because we were not going to follow the GPS directions.  We do not like taking the truck and trailer on too many twisty, turny  roads, so we were going to take I-64 to I-75 to Cumberland Parkway, then north to Campbellsville. 

About every 15 - 20 minutes I would pull up along side of Mike to make sure the straps were still holding the underbelly up.  When we got south of Lexington on I-75 I noticed the tail of one of the straps had come loose.  I quickly checked it out and it was not long enough to get caught by the wheel, so we did not pull over on the interstate.  But we did take the next available exit.  While off the highway we also thought it would be a good time to get some lunch and fill up the Suburban.  We took about 12 gallons out of the fuel tank on the trailer, then I topped it off at the gas pump.

After we left the truck stop we got caught in stand still traffic due to an accident on I-75.  We finally got moving, but traffic was very heavy for the rest of the time we were on I-75.  I was glad to be done with that section of the trip.

We finally made it to Campbellsville and the GPS told us to turn on Soule Chapel Road, but the road was only 1 lane wide.  So Mike waited at the church parking lot while I drove down the road to find the campground.  Once I found it I asked them the best way to bring the trailer in.  I followed their directions back to where I left Mike, then turned around and lead him back to the campground.  There were a couple of tight turns that I needed to do traffic watch for, but we made it to Green River RV Resort safe and sound.  :)

There aren't any picnic tables at this campground.  And I am sure we will have additional campers around us before long, but below is a picture looking out my front door.  :)

We will be here until at least December 23rd.  On Tuesday, October 7th Mike will start working his first "work camper" job with Amazon as part of their camperforce at their Campbellsville fulfillment center.  More about that after he starts the job. :)

This afternoon Mike heard from Phil that him and Tandy would be in Bowling Green, KY for the Mustang show this weekend.  We checked the map and found we were only about 1 hour and 10 minutes away, so we agreed to meet for dinner tomorrow night.   :)

It was getting late and we had a couple of things we wanted to pick up at Wal-Mart, so we decided we would eat out again tonight.  We went into town and found Colton Steak House.  Mike had the half a rack of ribs and I had pork chops.  Both meals were good, but Mike said he still likes the ribs at Texas Roadhouse better.  He said the ribs were heavily seasoned with some type of rub that he did not really like.  Once we got back home we called it a night.

It was another wonderful day!