Jack Daniels, Rugby, York, Cumberland State Park

We took a few short spins this week.  There were several interesting places to stop and check out.  One of them was an RV residential area.  Every home or duplex in the development has an RV garage.  The homes were beautiful and with the big space dedicated to garages between the living quarters, you probably wouldn’t be bothered with your neighbor’s noise.

This is one-half of the home.  The other half will be built when another new owner is found.

Homeless Hill is an area within the development for new owners while their home is under construction.  Full hookups are provided and the owner can stay in their RV as long as the construction takes.

The big tour of the week was Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, TN.  What an amazing tour this was.  We found it interesting that the distillery is in a dry county.  They can make whiskey but it can’t be sold  there.  The little town of Lynchburg can’t sell any of the local whiskey.  However, the distillery can.

Single Barrel Whiskey 

There are two different distillery tours.  One is free but the only sampling allowed on that tour is of lemonade and water. There is another tour that offers samples but we took the “free” tour.    It was fantastic!

Secret ingredient – fresh, cool flowing water. Temperature was about 56 degrees and the breeze from it felt wonderful on the hot day.

We also enjoyed walking around the town of Lynchburg.  The only problem with the town is that they rolled up the sidewalks at 5:00 sharp.

 

Jerry playing checkers with a local

And, of course, we had to visit the General Store with the Moon Pies.

Critter Bait -  Ever been critter bait?  Well, I’ve discovered chitters.  Or, rather, they’ve discovered me.  I think they hitched a ride when I was cleaning out my kayak.  I can tell you, it’s not a pleasant thing to be.

We weren’t quite through with touring the area.  Jerry and Janice had another tour for us.  This time we visited the tiny  town of York.  This was an interesting stop for sure as the town of York was named after the WWI war hero,  Alvin C. York.  Sergeant York was a conscientious objector when he was drafted into the military but he had no choice.  He had to go.  He ended up being the most decorated war hero of that time.  A movie was made about his life and in it starred Gary Cooper.

The mill at York, Tennessee

I had seen a sign advertising the Historic town of Rugby and we all thought it would be a good place to visit.  The town was started in 1880 but many of the buildings had burned down or replaced.  It’s a National Historic Site and has an informative museum. 

The problem with the museum is that the lady who takes care of the museum is also the one that leads the tours.  When she’s on the hour-long tour, the museum is locked up.  Thus, we missed the museum.  We were a little disappointed.   However, we did enjoy the stores and the printing shop.

After all the touring we did we were pretty hungry.  We ended up at the Cumberland State Park Restaurant.  We were surprised that the state park actually had a restaurant in it.  The restaurant had a wonderful buffet. 

We waddled out of there and down to the river to watch the geese and the ducks waddle around too,

This state park is one of the nicest we’ve ever visited.  In addition to a campground, cabins and the restaurant, there was also a river with kayak and boat rentals plus a huge swimming pool!  I hav never seen a park with so many amenities.

We’ve sure been lucky to have local guides.  They’ve really gone out of their way for us and we really do appreciate it!  However, it’s not been all fun and games (actually it has been).  Terry and Jerry have been working their tails off trying to get the Hyder’s little casita finished.

Now we have another chore in store ….. trying to get back to Washington and that’s the plan for Tuesday.

‘Tis life on the road.