2020 Trip To South Dakota

[Cofisher]

Sorry I missed you all. I am up in Leadville. Fishing is good. Spent a couple hours at the range today. I am happy with the results. I’ll post a report soon. Be safe Jim. And Evan? Yeah, get a haircut

[JEBar]

Sorry I missed you all. I am up in Leadville. Fishing is good. Spent a couple hours at the range today. I am happy with the results. I’ll post a report soon. Be safe Jim. And Evan? Yeah, get a haircut

hopefully we won't have to contend with COVID next year and can hold a gathering like last year .... rest assured, you were discussed .. .. looking forward to your coming range report

[JEBar]

our morning was spent taking care of housekeeping type items and getting rid of some .... shortly after noon I met some friends at Jay Henges Shooting Park where we fired 100 rounds on a Trap Range .... it was hot out there ..!!!!.. I was happy with my rounds of 23, 22, 21, and 24 .... after we returned to the camper, a friend did come by and cleaned both AC's .... from the looks of the dirty water running off the roof, they needed it .... black tank cleaned .... interior roof AC filters cleaned .... we are now settled in for the evening and looking forward to tomorrow's drive to Clarksville, TN

[JEBar]

today's 306.4 mile drive from just west of St Louis to Clarksville, TN took us 5 hr 5 min .... while near St Louis we put 36.4 non-towing miles on our truck .... our drive included a fuel stop just before leaving Missouri and a single rest stop .... we did drive through some construction slowdowns .... the roughest stretch of road we traveled was the last 20+ miles in Kentucky on I-24 .... tomorrow's projected 5 h 20 min / 350 mi drive is the longest we have scheduled for our return trip from South Dakota .... about the time we reach the NC state they are calling for a 50% chance of (potentially) strong thunderstorms

[JEBar]

today's 306.4 mile drive from just west of St Louis to Clarksville, TN took us 5 hr 5 min .... while near St Louis we put 36.4 non-towing miles on our truck .... our drive included a fuel stop just before leaving Missouri and a single rest stop .... we did drive through some construction slowdowns .... the roughest stretch of road we traveled was the last 20+ miles in Kentucky on I-24 .... tomorrow's projected 5 h 20 min / 350 mi drive is the longest we have scheduled for our return trip from South Dakota .... about the time we reach the NC state they are calling for a 50% chance of (potentially) strong thunderstorms

[JEBar]

today's projected 5 h 20 min (350 mi) drive is our longest of the entire trip and will take us back into the Eastern Time Zone .... we are camped in Clarksville, TN which is about 50 miles west of Nashville, TN and years of experience tells us that we don't want to go through there at rush hour .... consequently, we do not want to pull out this morning until after 9AM .... because of NC's high fuel taxes, we do have a fuel stop planned for between Knoxville and the NC state line .... we will probably make a second rest stop somewhere along the drive

[JEBar]

today we ended up covering 368.3 miles in 6 hr 31 min but while doing so, our string of uneventful day's drives came to an abrupt end ....the last 20+ miles of I-24 in Kentucky, just before crossing into Tennessee is extremely rough .... I believe that is the stretch of road that cracked the steel 2" box tub receiver on the back of our camper .... unknown to us at the time, by the time we got between Nashville and Knoxville the carrier on the back of our camper had bent downward and was dragging on I-40 .... thankfully a young man flagged us down in time to prevent serious damage .... young fellow and I were able to get our Yeti cooler off the carrier but there was no way we could lift it and get it into our camper .... about that time a dump truck driver pulled in behind us and with his help we were able do so .... some may recall our carrier failure a year ago .... the repairs to it are fine, hopefully we can get this latest failure repaired and reinforced .... we are now setup in the East Asheville KOA .... tomorrow morning we will be homeward bound

[CT_Shooter]

Glad you're both OK and there was no serious damage to the camper or to other travelers. Hope you have a boring and uneventful ride home!!

[JEBar]

Hope you have a boring and uneventful ride home!!

boring and uneventful sound wonderful to me ..

[BigAl52]

Glad you got help Jim. I know about rough roads. Theres a stretch of I-76 in Denver Im aware of and I just throw on the 4 ways and slow to 25mph to navigate through that rough area. Letting the road get so bad that you break stuff is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.

[JEBar]

Letting the road get so bad that you break stuff is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.

agree

[JEBar]

after one heck of a day, we are back home .... today's drive of 273.7 miles that took 4 hrs 42 min was over familiar territory that we have traveled many, many times .... our morning began with driving from our campground to the Farmer's Market in Asheville where we picked up 2 bushels of white half runner green beans .... they are old time string and snap beans that my father raised and, for me, they are the only green bean I really enjoy .... after getting home, unhooking and leveling our camper, we delivered well over a thousand dollars worth of steaks that we hauled all the way from South Dakota .... tomorrow hundreds of dollars more will be delivered .... we then drove to a neighboring town where we picked up a very excited grandson .... in the last couple of hours I've stringed and snapped about a half bushel of beans which will go into the canner shortly after breakfast .... sometime tomorrow we hope to start unloading the camper ....

[markiver54]

after one heck of a day, we are back home .... today's drive of 7 miles that took 4 hrs 42 min was over familiar territory that we have traveled many, many times .... our morning began with driving from our campground to the Farmer's Market in Asheville where we picked up 2 bushels of white half runner green beans .... they are old time string and snap beans that my father raised and, for me, they are the only green bean I really enjoy .... after getting home, unhooking and leveling our camper, we delivered well over a thousand dollars worth of steaks that we hauled all the way from South Dakota .... tomorrow hundreds of dollars more will be delivered .... we then drove to a neighboring town where we picked up a very excited grandson .... in the last couple of hours I've stringed and snapped about a half bushel of beans which will go into the canner shortly after breakfast .... sometime tomorrow we hope to start unloading the camper ....

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Great to hear you are both home and safe Jim!!. we talked to a local grower here and he said, hope you bought the beans from the sheds and NOT the retail buildings. Huge difference in cost at the farmers market!
Sorry we were unable to meet up...a lot going on with us both, but will keep in touch of course!
home sweet home......enjoy!

[JEBar]

we talked to a local grower here and he said, hope you bought the beans from the sheds and NOT the retail buildings. Huge difference in cost at the farmers market!

don't know the difference between the sheds and retail buildings .... we usually deal with the big outfit in the first building on the right as you are driving into the market

[Hatchdog]

Congrats on another great safe trip. There’s some very happy steak lovers in NC today!

Heading to South Dakota ourselves week after next.

Thanks for keeping us updated, I enjoy reading your posts.

[brm4450]

Where you headed to in SD?

[markiver54]

we talked to a local grower here and he said, hope you bought the beans from the sheds and NOT the retail buildings. Huge difference in cost at the farmers market!

don't know the difference between the sheds and retail buildings .... we usually deal with the big outfit in the first building on the right as you are driving into the market

As you enter, go straight past the main building. You will then see 4 or 5 open air, under roof sheds. These are the growers. Most think they are wholesale only, however, they will sell to anybody cheaper than in the retail building.
Don't know what you paid, but the grower here on Burnsville sells them for $35.00 for a half bushel or $1.89 Lb.

[The Wiz]

Welcome home, Jim

[BigAl52]

Glad you made it home Jim. We are headed out again about the 23rd of Sept for are final voyage until we head south in Dec.

[JEBar]

Don't know what you paid, but the grower here on Burnsville sells them for $35.00 for a half bushel or $1.89 Lb.

we paid $53 a bushel at Coates Produce in the first building .... just got through stringing and snapping both bushels .... about half have been canned, the rest tomorrow