We left Branson, MO on November 5th after 12 days.  We had a great time there and will certainly go back some day.
We ran down Highway 65 to I 40 and headed east.  After going around Little Rock, we decided to get fuel and eat lunch.  Fuel was no problem but finding a place to park the beast was.  There was mucho construction at the exit we picked to fuel up and the truck stop we went to had little parking available. However, there was a nice big lot at the truck stop across the freeway, so we headed there.
(This is where my latest stupid RV trick comes in)  I decided that I would just turn behind an 18 wheeler and go into the parking lot of a large truck stop.  There was a Subway cafe in the office, so a nice sub sounded great for lunch.  Unfortunately, as we got into the line behind the truck I realized that we were in a line for a truck wash. (so was the truck, accidentally).  There was no way to back out, so we both just sat there as a couple of 18 wheelers in front of us were washed by the crew inside the building.  We were stuck so long that Libby fixed lunch and we ate it while waiting to get through the building. When the way opened up, we followed the errant 18 wheeler right through the building and back on to the street as the washing crew smiled broadly while we just waved as we went by!

After spending the night at an old and very crummy KOA west of Memphis, (its not a KOA anymore) we headed across the Mississippi at Memphis, passing Mud Island and traveling east into typical metro traffic.  Just east of Memphis, we dropped off of I 40 and picked up U.S. 64.  We followed this road all the way across Tennessee, coming out at I 24 just to the north of Monteagle. We pulled the grade to Monteagle, which is just a hill compared to the mountains out west, and stopped for the night at campground at the summit.

The next morning, we headed into Chattanooga, up I 75 to Cleveland, TN and then turned east on 64 again to run through the Ocoee Gorge.  We arrived in Blairsville, GA just before noon and as we pulled into the campground, our friend Pappy Doughty was right behind us.  We plugged in the electric cord and hopped into his truck to go to lunch for one of our many, "welcome back to the south and southern cooking" meals that we had the good fortune to partake of while in Georgia!

The following week, Libby and I both had dentist and doctor appointments for our annual checkups.  The doctor said we both were good for another 12,000 miles so after 9 days, we headed south. Just in time too, since we had frost a couple of mornings in the north Georgia mountains.

We stayed at our usual stop in Unadilla, the Southern Trails C2C for $6. Then, we moved down to Lake City, FL and spent an afternoon with our old neighbors from Loxahatchee, FL, Ina and Arnie Ozols.  They helped us build our house in the mid 80s when we moved to the country and built our own home with no contractors.

While we were in Lake City, we bit the bullet and bought four 6 volt Absorbed Glass Mat batteries for the Rolling Home.  These batteries are not cheap at $180 each, but should last for about 10 years, come with a five year warranty and never, never require maintenance. I'll save the cost of the batteries by not buying new clothes to replace the ones I ruin with battery acid!
Our old house batteries were five years old and were beginning to go flat.  While flooded lead acid batteries only cost around $50 each at discount stores, these AGMs are state of the art and fit our needs much better.

After Lake City, we moved about 90 miles to Crystal River and caught up with Rich and Diane Emond and Norm and Linda Payne.  We spent three days with them.  We will see the Emonds in January and February, but the Paynes are heading west and are going to Quartzsite this winter and also into Mexico, so it was good to catch up with them before they head out.

Then, we moved to the Tampa East Encore Park, a good neighbor park in the C2C system.  We spent four days there at $11 a day and helped our daughter and her family move from their 2 bedroom one bath house to the new 3 bedroom 2 bath house. A real step up for a young family with three kids!

We took the grandtwins to see The Cat In the Hat. Good thing all the crummy stuff in the movie went over their heads. They loved it, I was disappointed that a kid movie had some pretty obvious sexual and foul mouthed junk that wasn't necessary.

We headed for Okeechobee on Tuesday before Thanksgiving and actually drove after dark to get here.  We didn't leave Tampa until almost 4 pm and stopped for fuel over on I 75.  We picked our usual route on State Rd 70 and from Arcadia to Okeechobee, we drove in the dark and the rain.  We managed to get on our lot although we didn't set up until the next morning.

We had Thanksgiving with about 50 of our closest friends at the clubhouse and then visited with our friends Becky and Harold Hilliard in the evening.

We spent the rest of November getting settled and building a small deck on our lot here at The Big O.

Fuel for November          $317
Camping for November  $301
LP for November            $0
Maintenance (batteries)   $720