Monday, April 21, 2003
Meriwether Lewis CG on The Trace - Apr 20-21
This is probably our favorite campground (of the 3) on the Trace, even though there are only a few good solar sites. The best solar site was actually available, but we passed it up in favor of a very secluded spot on the other loop. It's impossible to describe how pleasant an evening under a canopy of trees and stars is, far removed from any artificial lights. Naturally, the next day two RVs travelling together camped on either side of us (with the whole campground practically empty), which wouldn't have been so bad, but they both had generators. One was pretty quiet, but the other was not, and they ran it most of the evening. It didn't look like they were going to leave the next morning, so we decided it was time to move on.In the Interesting People Dept, we met a couple who were bicycling up The Trace (we had seen them earlier camping at Tishomingo). After striking up a conversation with them, we discovered that they were actually biking from New Orleans to California by way of Washington state, trying to retrace the Lewis & Clark route. This was something they did every year -- bike on an extended trip for 6 months before returning to their home, which was a pickup with a camper shell. They had actually biked fulltime for 2 1/2 years before getting their present "home base". So much for our feeling proud of living with so few possessions!!
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 5:58 PM 
