Nashville, TN

Today was a blast! Almost. Literally!

The last two days we were staying at Camp Atterbury, the Indiana National Guard training facility near Edinburgh, IN. It was a very nice little park and we enjoyed our stay. Unfortunately, it was in the Bermuda Triangle of internet connectivity and I could not keep up the blog. The highpoint of the stay was several hours in the local antique mall. Lots of cool stuff, but nothing we couldn’t do without.

We were on the road a little after ten this morning. Traffic was heavy but moving along. The roads were very rough and shaking us pretty good. After a while we thought we smelled propane so I got up to see if the jarring had bumped open a valve on the oven. All looked fine so we kept going. The smell persisted, so we pulled in at the next rest area. As I got out of the coach I could hear the hissing over the idling semi three spaces over. I opened the propane tank compartment and it was obvious there was a major leak. One spark...and...BOOM. I quickly turned off the main valve and waited for the fumes to dissipate before repairing the loose fitting. That seemed to fix the problem, but as it turned out, only temporarily. I finally had to turn the propane off at our next stop. The only problem that created was the refrigerator would not run while we were on the road.

We got to the Two Rivers Campground, checked in, and set up.

Once settled in I removed the offending fitting on the propane tank and returned the plumbing to its original configuration. For now the leak seems to be stopped.

Tomorrow we meet up with friends Tom and Ann.