Eastern Tennessee

Floating Hill Campground, Center Hill Lake
35 58.56 N 085 43.43 W



We had a delightful morning at the Oak Ridge Museum. The story of how Oak Ridge was conceived and created as part of the Manhattan Project during WWII is fascinating. Also fascinating was the primitive yet effective methods they intended to separate U235 from U238.

Tonight we are at a delightful campground run by the US Corps of Engineers. We are ahead of the real season and we have this whole camping are to ourselves. Our tent site is right on the shore of the lake. So far, no mosquitoes, hooray for that. Most people would kill for a camp site on the water, but we live on the water. We will have to try for sites with scenic views. For a whole though we are out of the mountains.

We started this morning at 0745 and arrived at this site at 1515. That's just about an ideal schedule for this type of travel.

Traveling on the secondary roads is a delight. It is much less stressful. We cruise at 45mph. We see nice scenery, quaint little towns, and we avoid traffic. Some of the roads are a challenge. Try remind me of Smugglers Notch Vermont.