Hauling South Into The Fog

   Corn, corn & more corn.  Mich., Ohio & Indiana are covered with dried corn stalks as far as the eye can see.  It seems that corn for ethanol makes for big bucks if you are a farmer.   Don't tell the 50% of the world that is starving we're growing the stuff to fuel our SUV's.
   Stayed in an Indiana State Park last night--our first night in the EGG.  The Park was very hard to find. We drove miles and miles and miles through the corn, but thanks to Ann's expert navigation and Google's magic dot we found it about dusk.  The temp. dropped to about 28 degrees...enough to freeze H20, but our heater worked like a champ.  Our paramount goal today was to scoot South asap and get to warmer temps. On the map we located another state park near Mammoth Cave, Kentucky & drove roughly 30 miles on narrow, twisting, hilly roads through pretty Amish farm country only to learn that the park was closed.  Tried to turn around in a fellow's drive way.  He stormed out and said his wife would shoot me if I hit any of the bushes....said a fellow in a "Greyhound Bus" tried to do the same and he had to run him off.  I'm guessing it was one of those mammoth RV's that are as big as a bus.  Anyhow, the turn around wasn't going too well so the fellow told me to quit backing and drive across his yard.
   Tomorrow we'll check out Mammoth Cave and scope out their camping sites.  It's a National Park but has no electrical hookups so we'll have to fire up the new Honda generator & see how this system works.  One major bit of learning:  Do comprehensive research before striking out toward a state park.  So far, we've found them to be poorly marked & the one last night was in disrepair.  With the bleak financial condition most states are in it's no wonder. 
   The overarching realization during our adventure to date is that we're grooving on the EGG.  It's all we expected and more.  But it's the driving from point A to point B that busts your chops.    Today we came from Peru, Indiana to Bowling Green, Kentucky.  This is approx. 300 miles, then you add the 30 plus miles we drove on the wild goose chase, we're looking at roughly 330-350 miles.  It was getting dark.  The truck, the EGG, Ann and I needed a break so we checked into a Comfort Inn.
   Tomorrow's gonna be a golden day........