We woke up this morning in a torrential rainstorm in the middle of a beautiful forrest on a small peninsula, packed up, unhooked, and hit the road. An hour later, the skies were clear and we were cruising north towards Chattanooga, to visit Rock City and see the gnomes Stephanie recalls vividly from a brief visit when she was five.
Since our planning was last minute, we decided to stay at a Chattanooga West KOA – KOA’s are our easy go-to since they are generally clean, safe, and well equipped, if not always exactly stunning. As we drove north towards the Alabama-Tennessee-Georgia border, the scenery got more beautiful by the mile. Leaving the highway we kept expecting to pull in behind a Walmart or Arby’s and sleep under flood lights, but instead we wound our way up into the hills and eventually arrived at a stunning, and almost empty, KOA.
Being the small world that it is, the maintenance guy at the camp used to live in Seal Beach and just came back to Chattanooga on his last long haul as a trucker, switching gears to work year round with his wife tending to the needs of the campground.
Tomorrow we see the sites, and then we leave the following day, heading eventually for Nashville.
