Thanks for the confirmation. I can't commit and don't hold a bed for me, but if it seems that we end up not doing anything that weekend (I may not know until that Friday) I will see if I can do what I did this past trip and just come up for one night, ride the next day, and go home that night. It's a 4 hour drive one way, but it's worth it if I can do it and not get in trouble at home  

And I can sleep in my trailer if a bed in the cabin needs to be used by someone else.....and I can always bring a cot that could be set up in the cabin if there is floor space.

Dave

Everyone have a happy 4th of July -- stay safe from all them on the road drinkers, cell phoner wavers,  etc.

Now now, that was my only real pay me ticket in over 30 years, so I am not doing all that badly in the "staying away from the police" department -- as a matter of fact it took two sets of PARK RANGERS to catch me this time.    ..... equipped with multiple sets of stupid doesn't look like a speed limit signs and super low speed limits and lots of roving road blocks to distract me.

I was speed trapped by Yogi Bear's nice Ranger Smith, and I wasn't looking for that.



BTW, someone should explain to the newbies why we don't collect evidence and then post it on YouTube for wives and such to find -- it causes trouble, it does.

Wives get so durn upset when their co-workers show them "the neat new YouTube video of your husband's group acting out up on the Dragon".

All Dragon newbies solemnly repeat the mountain mantra 3 times  --  "What goes on in the mountains   STAYS  in the mountains".

And its not like your wife isn't plenty smart enough to figure out where this forum is on the Internet and dial into it to see what we are doing all the time while we're out doing it.

 
Lookie what is showing up weather days in the month of September now ......

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/robbinsville-nc/28771/month/2096614?monyr=9/...

Still got one (1) free rack needs filling up ......   trip days are Friday the 4th through Monday the 7th

Weather sure looks nice, doesn't it?

Well !

I took the Wife and Son to Grandfathers Mountain (NC.) for the "Highland Games" .  Did the Tent/Cots/Shower house thing for the weekend.  I may have opened a Pandora's Box of sorts .  
So we were sharing highlights of the weekend with some of our old friends that we did Scouts with.   The Eagle scout from that family is going to the Marines this fall.    His mom is wanting to  "re-live" some of our "Scout-Car-Camping" days before he goes.

Now I might have to participate in a similar adventure on the Natchez Trace Parkway during the Labor Day Weekend ?

Don't know how this is going to turn out .   I normally have the reins in my hands or even in my teeth when these events come up but this time the reins seem to be around my neck !  

Life use-to-be so simple ...          We are doing Vacation Bible School this week and are really busy , but I should know if its  a go or no-go some time next week.

The fall trips are notorious for getting somewhat fuzzy by the time they actually do arrive.   Too much time elapses, things change.

MM, do tell us when it becomes clear if your plans have indeed shifted as I will start advertising the empty bed(s) that week for those who had some vague tentative plans to come.   I would like to do this before the 3rd of this upcoming month because if we need to downsize the room (or cancel the room) I have to do it 30 days out.

Natchez Trace (and the park that surrounds it) is 444 miles long, so it is somewhere between MM's and Alabama the whole way.

Weather still looks excellent.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/robbinsville-nc/28771/month/12174_pc?monyr=9...