Sep 21, 2012 - Looking for fossils

Friday walked in the Falls of the Ohio State Park where you can walk by the Ohio River and there are fossil beds that you can walk over & explore we saw loads of fossils nothing like back home in Lyme Regis, these are all coral fossils some quite large as well, some look like horns others snakes it is illegal to take any from there. Then onto the Ohio Canal Lock & Dam area where we walked a few miles along the river path after looking at the huge dam area never seen a lock as large as this one. The river walk is where we saw the Red...

Sep 20, 2012 - Another Journey

Thursday we left Oaktown a drive of 80+ miles to Loogootee where we had booked & paid for a campsite for 3 nights, on arrival we found there was no way our RV was going to fit on the site they had allocated to us, we drove round and checked a few more sites out either they were too short, water, electric & sewer too far away for our pipes & leads to reach, so we gave up & got a refund they asked how long our RV was as well when I booked. So quick research through some campground books to find somewhere else to stay another 80+ miles to...

Oct 17, 2011 - Falls of the Ohio State Park

Like you, I asked "What are the "Falls?" The Falls of the Ohio are nothing like Niagara Falls. There are a series of rapids caused by water flowing over ledges of hard limestone composed of vast numbers of fossils. the first rapids began in front of what is now downtown Louisville and continued to Sand Island, a distance of 2.5 miles and a drop of 26 feet. when a dam was built in the 1920's, the river's flow was restricted and most of the rapids were covered with water. Today, only remnants of these rapids remain below the dam. An...

Oct 16, 2011 - Shopping, Football, & Baseball

As an unexpected surprise, we learned that the campground was a couple of blocks behind a suburban shoppers' paradise with some of the following stores: Walmart, Sam's Club, Bass Pro Shop, Target, and Lowe's. At Walmart, we bought a new Black and Decker Toast-R-Oven as the one Dan's mother had given us fell on the floor while driving (it should have been stored away, but we forgot when we left the previous campground) and several pieces broke off (plus it smashed a hole in the storage area across from the counter where it had been...

Oct 15, 2011 - Add-More Campground

Today we drove approximately 125 miles to the Add-More Campground in Clarksville, IN, north of Louisville, KY. We decided to stay in Indiana due to the September closure of the Sherman Minton Bridge that carries I-64 traffic across the Ohio River at the Kentucky-Indiana state line on the west side of Louisville. We had heard of major traffic problems on the other two bridges over the Ohio River. Upon arrival at the campground, Dan had to make sure that our assigned site was satellite friendly in order to watch the final game(s) of the...

Oct 4, 2011 - On to Clarksville, Indiana

Beginning Mileage 5626 Ending Mileage 5941 Louisville Metro KOA 540 Marriott Dr Clarksville,IN 47129 812-282-4474 7.5/9.5/7 $42/nt Got up early and went for our thiry minute walk, then got ready and were underway by 10:30am. Had to stop and put air in the fifth wheel tires. Once that was done we were on our way. The new truck is a champ. We went up Mont Eagle and down with no problem at all. Wow! What a difference. We had a long drive made even longer by horrible traffic in Louisville but we finally arrived. This campground has very narrow...

Aug 5, 2011 - Louisville Metro KOA, Clarksville, IN

We left Tennessee and headed into Kentucky. We passed by Corbin, KY, the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken, then on to Louisville, KY, home of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat factory. We checked in at the Louisville Metro KOA for the night, which is actually located in Clarksville, Indiana. At the recommendation of locals, we had dinner at the Buckhead Mountain Grill on the scenic Ohio River. We watched boats on the river and saw the sunset. Beautiful.

May 21, 2011 - Louisville Metro KOA

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Sep 26, 2009 - Clarksville, IN - Louisville Metro KOA

Our trip to Louisville was a little over 260 miles. The roads were pretty good and about half of it was interstate which we will be on for the most part until we get home. It rained, or drizzled, most of the way but wasn't too bad except it decided to really rain just as we were coming through Indianapolis, not my favorite way to come through a big city! We are staying at the Louisville Metro KOA which is actually just across the Ohio River from Louisville in Clarksville, IN. We have a full hookup pull through which is very narrow but...

Jul 22, 2009 - day 38

well today was an eventful day. we left around 9:30, gassed up ($86) 36 gallons. while driving on interstate 74 when we heard a noise from the rear of our rv. we continued a little while, trying to get to an exit, but the noise got louder and i noticed the motorcycle trailer showing in the rearview mirror more than usual, so we decided to pull over. once getting out of the rv to check, we noticed that there was no tire or rim on the right rear of the trailer. the traffic was full of tractor trailers flying by, blowing us around. we decided...

Oct 21, 2008 - Clarksville, IN

Today was another travel day, although not too tough, since we only had to travel about 120 miles. The sky was clear again and the air was cool when we headed south on Highway 9 which runs parallel to Interstate 65. As we traveled further south, the trees got greener and the leaves are just beginning to change. We might get to see fall colors again hopefully. -- We stayed on the side highways until we were just outside of Louisville, Kentucky, where we moved over onto the Interstate and took Exit 1 into the little town of Clarksville, still...

Jul 16, 2008 - Homeward Bound

7-16-08 Homeward Bound We left the campground in Grainville, Kansas about 8am and headed for St Louis. The roads are getting worse as we near the more populated areas. We’re going down I-70 and the next thing ya know the sign proclaims we are entering the Kansas City Expressway or turnpike or some such nonsense. It’s the EXACT same road, but we now have to stop and take a ticket to be presented later at whatever toll booth we exit at. Now I was under the mistaken impression that interstate highways didn’t have tolls, but here one is....