Then I went to my concert (which was super fun!) and we stayed in the Walmart parking lot again, since it was already 11 by that time.
We left this morning to head towards the nearest national forest to see if there would be anywhere to stay. The first one (right on the state line of Kentucky and Virginia) was a bust. Apparently a ton of the land in their national is privately owned. We ended up moving on to the another section and finally found a road that actually is a National Forest road. We are now parked there, pretty much on the side of the road for the night. No traffic has gone by though, so we think it's very seldom traveled.
-Miranda
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We left Winchester after running a couple errands and stopping for lunch again at that yummy sandwich shop and headed towards Daniel Boone National Forest. Our hope was to be able to park somewhere off the road and stay for a couple days. Unfortunately, it looked pretty controlled. You must buy a pass if you are staying overnight. It's not expensive, so that wasn't a big deal, but there was really no good place to pull off. We ended up going down a side road that ended at a couple nice, short hikes. There was a little pull off from that road, so we ended up staying there the night.
Oh my gosh it was cold. Not freezing, luckily, but we aren't staying another night because apparently it is supposed to get down to 30 there and we can't be having stuff in the RV freeze. We are on our way to Pikeville now.
-Miranda
EDIT: Here are a couple photos from there.
Joe in front of the Red River Gorge
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We were between Lexington and Winchester when the RV started to sound like it was grinding and it gradually got louder. Then the temperature started to spike. Since Joe has had the engine seize from it getting too hot before he pulled over and shut it off. When he opened the hood there was oil, or something, sprayed all over the hood.
Long story not quite so long, eventually a cop pulled up behind us. By this time we knew it was a leak dealing with the transmission, but Joe couldn't find the leak. The officer drove me to a gas station to get more fluid. We put that in and tried to make it to Winchester (we were 10 miles from the exit). It went fine to start but started sounding awful again, so we made it to the next exit which had nothing at it and parked in a pull off near the interstate to stay the night.
This morning Joe found the leak, removed the hose and I was able to call a taxi to come pick us up, bring us to Winchester and bring us back. So, all fixed. The engine doesn't sound great, but it's definitely better than it was. So, we'll see how it goes.
For the happier part of the day, we stopped at a cute sandwich place for dinner and had the best veggie wraps, cheesy potato soup and chai ever. We then found a YMCA, worked out and took showers. We'll probably do that when we can now. Tonight we're staying in a Walmart parking lot and hope to be in National Forest tomorrow.
-Miranda
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We drove basically all day yesterday. We stopped at a Walmart in southern Indianapolis and stayed there the night. We started out this morning and decided to stop for lunch in Louisville, KY if there was a good vegetarian place. We ended up finding a restaurant called the Zen Garden that was completely vegetarian. The food was amazing! Joe had an orange tofu dish, I had a vegetable fried rice and we both shared a Zen Garden Roll, which was a type of sushi. We'll have to remember that if we ever pass through this area again.
We're currently sitting outside "Sweet Surrender", which is a dessert cafe. They serve a vegetarian lunch also, but we aimed for the Vietnamese place instead. The dessert should be good though. We'll see. :D
-Miranda
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We finally left yesterday at around 4pm. Our plan was to leave right after we got the mail because we were waiting for a package. Of course that package didn't show up.... So, we decided it probably wasn't going to and just left anyway.
It's a bit chilly, but we are working our way south. Our main goal was to not be below freezing over night. We made it to Black River Falls, WI and stayed at a truck stop. It was a bit cold, but we gained 5 degrees in temperature from home! So that's a plus. Our goal today is to just keep getting farther south. We'll see how far we get.
The kitties are doing great traveling. Curly spends most of the driving time on one of our laps. Zoe lays in the middle of the floor somewhere. Lucy walks around, but is often in one of our laps and Pickles hides under the table. We'll see how much that changes when they get more used to it and it gets warmer.
-Miranda
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