Saturday, November 20

We left at 8:40 this morning truckin' down the road in Daisy pulling Toad and loaded up with all our stuff!
About 20 minutes after we left, we hit nasty fog (where did THAT come from) and drove in it for an hour!    Finally, ran out of that, but still dreary and chilly.   The farther south we went....tah dah....the sun was shining and the temps rose to 71!    Felt sooo good!   Had lunch at Five Brothers Cafe in Salem (been here before and always good).

We are in Clarksville, TN tonight at the Clarksville Campground - settled in around 4:00 and then left in Toad to check out this city of 129,000.   It is the home of Austin Peay State University (the fastest growing university in TN) and has a record enrollment this year of 10,000+.    It has a very pretty campus with many red brick buildings.   In January of 1999, the city of Clarksville suffered major damage from an F-4 tornado with a big part of the campus buildings damaged and over 130 trees lost.

Clarksville is also the birthplace of Wilma Rudolph and a main highway is named in her honor.   She was the fastest woman runner in the world in the 1960's.    We were impressed with the downtown - neat older buildings with wonderful architecture, new buildings blending in with the old, lovely homes, etc.   We went to 5:30 Mass at Immaculate Conception church and then walked along the Cumberland River - great walking path and it is decorated with tons of ornamental decorations all along the path, trees are full of lights, etc.    Unfortunately, only a small section was lit up - I imagine after Thanksgiving the lights will come on and what a sight it will be!    I'm sure it's a popular place for families to walk around and ooh and aah!

We stopped and got Chinese and brought back to Daisy - our egg rolls, hot and spicy beef and General Tso's chicken were delicious!