The weather warning was just that, there was no real damage except a few plastic bags blowing around. The sort of thing that the UK gets in a flap about. But we got ready when we woke up, after a cosy night in the car and set off for the highly recommended Mall nearby, Opry Mills. It was the in the same location as The Grand Old Opry, where you can find see anyone who is someone in the music world, usually the country music world though. It's been there for years...

Straight back to it today, we were heading on to Nashville relatively early because the drive was quite long. It was another lovely day, and once we had the tent packed up after it had dried off, we had our usual cereal in the car on the drive and made as much headway before stopping as we could. We were driving until around 1/2 before we stopped, managing half of the drive all before stopping. We stopped and had Long John Silvers, keeping up our challenge to try...

Today was a big drive, between 5 and 6 hours, so we were up early and we had a little game of chess at the campsite before we left. First time for Marie, so teaching her a new thing is always nice. There's a few firsts for her, mini golf and now chess, I'm just teaching her so many things, she is pretty lucky to be honest. Anyway, back to the real world, we set off around 10, eating breakfast in the car, which was cereal, from the box as we had no milk, a cool bo...

Today we got up early and ready as we were heading into Washington DC on a shuttle run by the campsite. Setting off at 9 and coming back at 5 would mean we had the whole day in DC. There was plenty to do there anyway on the main Mall, which is essentially a long road, or a promenade in pretentious language. We arrived and decided we would go as far away from the pickup point first, so that we ended up back where we needed to be on time. So it was the botanical ga...

Today we were aiming to head to the Rocky Statue at the Philadelphia museum of art, and run up the steps just like in the film. It was really warm out, like 25 degrees, so it was the perfect day for it. We woke up extra early and did some laundry, and while it was drying, we thought we would have a little game of mini golf on camp. Marie turned out to be quite the expert, after taking a few holes to get used to it of course. I did win, but she put up a respectabl...