We’re in a state park south of Memphis called T.O. Fuller, named after a Black politician who worked for the rights of locals here in this rural, seemingly forgotten area. How do I know this? From the lady I associate with this park, Margaret, who gives you a full tour of what to do in […]
Tag: Tennessee
All the Feels in Memphis
We’ve gone into Memphis three days in a row this week, and it still doesn’t feel like enough. (You know that’s significant coming from me.) The thing is, Memphis has such a deep history in civil rights; it’s on the beautiful Mississippi Delta; its old architecture is gorgeous; the people we’ve met are super-southern friendly; […]
Glowing Creek Campground
It’s actually called Cedar Creek Campground; Cedar Creek flows into the Cumberland River, northeast of Nashville, through Tennessee. It’s a much more limited campground than I expected when I booked it, but the sunlight on the water and the falling yellow leaves have made for a peaceful place for us to hang out near Nashville […]
Nashville: Where We Suck at Being Tourists
On our way south for the winter, I decided we needed more urban in our lives (the city kind, not Keith, although see below), so I booked us a week in Nashville, then a week in Memphis, thinking we’d go into town maybe two days each and soak up southern culture. I’ve never been. I’m […]
Friendship, Community, and Airstream Obsession
For this final post about the Airstream-only campground we’ve been visiting for the last ten days in Tennessee, I was going to structure my notes around the core characteristics of friendships according to psychologists (that I’d hastily googled). That’s because we’d hung out with our hosts Sherri and Mooch several times since we first met […]
Those Chicken Friends Visit the Visitors
I hope my old friends, Susan and Alex, get a kick out of being called, ”My chicken friends,” because that’s how I’ll always think of them on this blog, ever since they hosted us at their house in Atlanta last year and introduced us to their daughter’s chickens. That was one heck of a fun […]
Wash Day, Storm Day, Cousin Day!
We’ve had an eventful couple of days at the Airstream park, TCPC, in Tennessee. (If you missed my previous descriptions of the park, try here and here: then you’ll see that “eventful” also means “relaxing” and ”delightfully social” and <insert all kinds of positive words here>.) First Pro Wash and Wax! Sherri and Mooch turned […]
Laid-back Life at TCPC
A friend asked, ”Why an exclusive Airstream park?” The best way for me to explain (so far, after only three days here at Tennessee Cumberland Plateau Campground), is to try to describe the conversations I hear as people walk together along the loop road, as they sit on each other’s porches at night, as they […]
Is It an RV Park or a Neighborhood?
On our way between two major stops—Finn in Michigan and appointments in Texas—we’re visiting our Airstreaming friends, Sherri and Mooch, whom we met two winters ago in the Florida Keys and feel a special connection with. I’ve posted this photo before when we ran into them unexpectedly at different Florida campground; it shows how much […]
