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Steve’s Retirement Trip to Tennessee June/July 2024: Part 2: Rain and Caverns

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Sasquatch Farm, South Pittsburgh Tennessee & Raccoon Mountain’s Crystal Cavern  Sasquatch Farm, Site #17 Sunday, 6/30 The day started out gray but we weren’t going to let it ruin things for us! We didn’t have any plans for the day, but decided we needed to explore a little and made reservations to go explore Raccoon Mountain’s Crystal Cavern after lunch *same time zone! We started out the day by sitting around the table outside and playing with the dogs and…playing games games  - mostly animal trivia and camping question games.   At some point, Auntie became “Alex Quebec” (not Trebec!) and the name stuck.  We literally called her Alex for over half of this trip!  LOL Soon the rain came - in SHEETS.  Grace decided she didn’t care - it was a warm rain and she began to play in it.  Soon after, Auntie and I joined…after all, what is life if you can’t dance in the rain!?! After lunch, and dried off, we headed out to Raccoon Mountain and Crystal Cavern.  We had a 4:00 tour and our tour g

Steve’s Retirement Trip to Tennessee June/July 2024: Part 1: Off We Go!

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Lake Oconee KOA, Greensburg, GA to Sasquatch Farm, South Pittsburg, TN June 28-29 Lake Oconee KOA - Site 31 With much anticipation, Steve’s last day of work was Thursday, June 20, 2024.  He began his retirement with a week of camping prep for our trip to Appalachia and adventures in Tennessee.  We left on his 62nd birthday, but maybe didn’t spend the day *exactly* how he planned.   Our adventure started by finding out the day before that our beloved pet sitter who had been planning to stay with our pup had been hospitalized, so we had to pivot and take the pups with us.  This meant bringing two cars (which ended up being helpful) and packing up dog supplies at the last minute to add to our travels.  I have to say, the dogs were excited to get to go with us for the first time this year! We set off around 10 am on Steve’s birthday, heading out for a 4 hour drive to the Lake Oconee KOA (which we hadn’t been to), as a pit stop on the way to South Pittsburgh, TN, which is about 9 hours away