Day 36 of our 2025 RVing Adventure with Historical & Musical Interludes

It's Friday June 6th, day 36 of our 2025 summer adventure. After my walk this morning the TN Good Sam rally hosted a pancake and sausage breakfast. It was so good, that I ate it all before I could get a picture. Here is a bit of a secret, Tim Carroll was the cook for the pancakes! It was my second pancake breakfast made by Tim and it was just as good as the first. The only difference is Carol shared her fresh blueberries with us in those pancakes! This picture is the TN State Good Sam director, Jonathan Boyd and the Kleen Tank Vendor from Western NC, Tom & Carol Kaczmarek. He is another "product" of the Jack Pate school of Kleen Tank!

Sheryl, Debbie Carroll, Debbie Dashnaw and I took a quick trip to Belk's. Belk department stores were founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, and evolved from a small bargain store to a major regional retailer. The store initially called "The New York Racket" and later became Belk Brothers after William Henry's brother John joined as a partner.

We all ended up buying a thing or two... Sheryl got a couple dresses, Debbie C got a dress and shorts, Debbie D got a shirt and I ended up with purple Sketchers and a skort. The thing that made me the most happy about my clearance purchases, no it was not that the Sketchers were purple... it was the skort. Yes, it is purple too, but more importantly, it is a Large!

I saw these tall red boots and thought of Cheryl and Barb. They were in my size and on the clearance table.... but I figured I would twist an ankle or break my neck with that skinny heal!

Yankee RV Tours sponsored the Ice Cream Social this afternoon. It is always a big hit at a Good Sam rally. But especially today on this hot, hot day! The only thing that would have made it perfect was a little root beer. Just like the traditional root beer floats that we start every Yankee rally, caravan or event with. 

Root beer floats made an appearance into American culture at the soda fountain counters of the early 1900s long before air-conditioning. With the main flavorings of sassafras and sarsaparilla grown in North America, root beer is a uniquely American drink.

This afternoon we enjoyed watching the Bean Bag Toss game. Debbie Dashnaw participated. No phone at the event, so no pictures! After the games were over, we sat and chatted with Dianna Triplett. We had such a great time visiting, two hours was gone by before we ever knew it! Many of the rally goers went to Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dinner Theater. We have been before. So, Gary & Sheryl and Tim and Debbie went out to dinner. While Jim & Debbie and Charlie and I enjoyed a quiet evening sitting outside as the temperature started to drop in advance of the rain. 

As I right this tonight, the rain is softly falling on the RV roof. It has been many days since we have had rain on this trip! Stay tuned for more Two Lane Adventures!