Yesterday as we enjoyed the salt water pool we could look out at the road and see the "endless" hill we would get to climb the next morning. Fortunately a storm blew in making it relatively easy to persuade Dad it would be much better to bag the ride and take the RV to visit his brother instead.
Digging out the maps we found a shorter route that took us over some winding roads, or a longer but faster route via highways. Agreeing we didn't want to deal with the winding roads in the RV, we plugged the new campsite into the GPS and hit the road.
Everything was going well until we turned south on I-59 rather than continuing over to I-75 as originally planned. Grabbing the map book I saw that Route 136 actually was a shorter route over to I-75 and directed Dad off the next exit.
Our GPS suggested we "turn around" for the next several miles. The problem of course was Route 136 is a narrow winding mountain road that would have made a great bike ride if it wasn't for the sheer drop 100's of feet to the valley floor.
Dad maintained his sense of humor as the rest of us left permanent indentations in the furniture as we hung on for dear life.
Fortunately dad kept the motorhome on the road and shortly after arriving at camp his brother David and his wife came to visit giving him almost no time to harass me over my directions;)
Two of David's children Sherrill and Robert joined us for a great evening of food and family.
The plan is to take a couple of days here in Canton to rest, restock, and plan the rest of the trip.
The route so far this week looks something like this:
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