On-the-Road Adventure Continues

At this point, we were halfway to the eastern part of the U.S.  We weren't really stopping to see anything else in these states on the way back because we are eager to head north!  However, there were several things we passed in the southern stateson our eastward route:

Statue of Liberty

and

the track that is "too tough to tame."

That was all cool to see before lunch.  After lunch, things livened up some!

Since we now have to  visit the diesel pumps at gas stations, our choices of where to fuel up are limited.  We are using "truck stops" to do our fueling since we can safely fit our tractor-trailer-sized combo under the overhangs and have plenty of space to turn around.  This lucky day we were able to pull in behind a tractor trailer that was all done pumping fuel instead of just starting.  Mechanic Man carefully pulled through to the tank, but when he stepped out to start fueling, he realized that he had pulled a bit too far forward.  So he hopped in and backed up (aware of the tractor trailer behind us).  Suddenly, we are bumping forward!  Yes!  We hit the tractor trailer!  Thanks be to God, there was no damage!  When Mechanic Man told the driver that we hit his truck, the driver didn't even notice or care!  Whew!   He probably knew that he was WAAAY too close to us because Mechanic Man didn't move us that far backwards!   Another lesson learned!

As if that wasn't stressing enough, we ended up traipsing through Atlanta traffic after work hours due to the time change as we entered the next time zone and were unable to find a campground anywhere!   We kept on truckin' because we had to get out of the city traffic and finally found a quaint campground called Country Boys' Campground.  Just what we needed after the high-anxiety day of city traveling!