After a busy morning of finishing up our packing chores, we headed out about 11:00 a.m. to Evansville, where we planned to make our first stops. We hit the Flying J to dump our tank and fuel ($3.699 today), then headed over to the White Castle hamburger place. Yes, Joe finally got his White Castles. The Flying J there at US 41 and I-64 (west side) is a great find for us RVers -- it has 3 dump stations, propane, easy to get in and out of. We will have to make a note of that one.
After we ate our hamburgers, we started heading East toward Newburgh on the Ohio River Scenic Bypass. This road followed the path of the Ohio River and sometimes was RIGHT beside the river. We had great views most of the day, if not of the river, then of our drive through part of the Hoosier National Forest, after we left the river trail.
Our first glimpse of the scenic beauty of this road was in Newburgh, where Joe made a wrong turn that took us back toward Evansville and we had to find a place to turn around. Which turned out to be right on the river, and along the Newburgh locks. We hoped a boat or barge would pass through them while we were there but no such luck, although there was a barge moving down the river. The houses along this road were really beautiful too -- some high dollar real estate in Newburgh, Indiana.
We came upon a larger set of locks at Cannelton, so we pulled over here too. A barge was sitting just outside the locks but it didn't seem to be moving, even after I motioned it to come on through! Neither of us thinks we have ever seen a boat or barge go through locks so that would be a cool sight.
There is also what looks to be a nuclear power plant right along here at Cannelton, although there was a huge pile of coal there too so Joe couldn't figure out exactly what kind of power plant it is.
Joe picked out our route today (Hwy 66) but he kept grumbling about the "crooked road" that I picked out. But it was very pretty, although not overly wide in some places. When this highway turned north, we took Hwy 62 instead of I-64, but we only went a few miles until we ran into detour signs and we ended up on I-64 anyway. But before we first turned onto 62, I had Joe look at the map to get his bearings and make sure he still wanted to stay with the scenic roads, which he did. As soon as we turned to it, though, he said, "it's sure uphill, it didn't look uphill on the map." Guess we need a topo map in the future.
So here we are, Joe by his driving machine, and me with the Ohio River in the background, traveling the backroads we so enjoy. We have never driven through this part of Indiana before and it was well worth the extra time and miles it took. We managed to make this 150-mile trip into a 5-hour drive, and 200 miles.
We camped in Clarksville, Indiana, just across the river from Louisville (campgrounds are not too plentiful around here). We got off the road about 5:00 and this Add-More Campground turned out to be a nice place. We warmed up some Bobe's pizza for dinner, then took a walk around the park, but Joe wore his flipflops and is still suffering from that mistake -- his heel is really hurting him, but he did manage to walk over to the showers and get cleaned up. So, he's watching some old western on TV, and all of a sudden he says, "Look at that, that guy just flew off his horse and he didn't even break a rib." Never a dull moment in the old Winnebago!
BTW, we got word that the furnace at Lucille got repaired today, so that's one loose end that is done.
Tomorrow we are going to see what Louisville has to offer. I have a list of 6 things to see, so we'll see how many of them we actually get to. We may have to stay an extra day here.
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