I have booked my flight to Virginia to the Bywater's Plantation and will be arriving 9-15-2008 about 5:30 PM. Will spend tuesday getting Barth ready for her trip and on Wednesday Doug, Athena and I will be leaving for Chattanooga. It is getting close enough to get excited about.

Hope all have been practicing their go cart skills, as I might have a few surprises in store.

When do you hope to arrive @ Sweetwater exit 60 on I-75 south of Knoxville? about 25 miles south of the I-40 I-75 connection.
Keep us posted.
Tere

Jim and Tere, Doug and I plan on taking two days to get there instead of having to drive long hours and getting there in one. If you would like, I have your phone # and could call you the night before we get to that exit so we could meet up and proceed to the GTG.

Here's the latest I could come up with:

17 - Jim and Tere, '85 28' Regal
22 - Mary Ray, '85 33' Regal
132 - Sky (Ray & Anne McHan), '90 32' Regency
133 - Carl Flack, '88 33' Regal SE "The Toy"
134 - Tom Johns, '90 36' Regency
135 - Nick Cagle, '93 32' Regency "Ugly Betty"
136 - Doug Bywaters, '84 29' Regal
137 - Rusty, Maggie and Casey, '94 28' Breakaway "StaRV II"
138 - Gary Carter, '92 30' Breakaway
139 - Ol' Betsy (Betsy & Carl Feren) '92 30' Breakaway


Cabin #3 (a/k/a "Water[ing]hole #3", for those who remember the 1967 movie...) - Bill N. Y.

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Gary Carter to 138
Bill N.Y. 8/5
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...Sure am sorry I'm gonna miss the G-T-G in Chatanooga next month....Ya'll will like Raccoon Mtn Campground.....As a matter of fact, just recently I took this pic at the entrance:



Enjoy the G-T-G!

Thanks Lee,Betty now wants me to bring the 30/06 and couple of six shooters hooked to my belt and possibly stand guard all night or she wont come.
See Ya In Choo Choo Land

Tell her not to worry, as I'll bring my Florida Gator Catcher Kit, which also works on bears.

The kit consists of binoculars,, tweezers, and an empty mayonnaise jar. I simply look through the "wrong end" of the binoculars until the bear is very small, pick him up with the tweezers, and drop him into the mayonnaise jar. Problem solved!

Note this is different from the technique for defending against polar bears. With polar bear, one sprinkles peas around the icehole that the bears have been frequenting; when the polar bear comes up to take a pea, you kick it in the icehole.

Rusty: Betty said to tell you she is now coming. She now feels safer with your system of protection.

I'm still wondering how many people actually read the bear warning sign all the way to the end .

bells and smells like pepper lol

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Originally posted by carlflack:
Rusty: Betty said to tell you she is now coming. She now feels safer with your system of protection.

I'll even show her how it's done, should a bear appear...

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Originally posted by Rusty:
17 - Jim and Tere, '85 28' Regal
22 - Mary Ray, '85 33' Regal
132 - Sky (Ray & Anne McHan), '90 32' Regency
133 - Carl Flack, '88 33' Regal SE "The Toy"
134 - Tom Johns, '90 36' Regency
135 - Nick Cagle, '93 32' Regency "Ugly Betty"
136 - Doug Bywaters, '84 29' Regal
137 - Rusty, Maggie and Casey, '94 28' Breakaway "StaRV II"
138 - Gary Carter, '92 30' Breakaway
139 - Ol' Betsy (Betsy & Carl Feren) '92 30' Breakaway


Cabin #3 (a/k/a "Water[ing]hole #3", for those who remember the 1967 movie...) - Bill N. Y.

I've taken a Google overhead view of the site and added parking space numbers/names to the view.







The map on their website doesn't show enough detail. Here is a Super Sized Image of the campground's map.

That overview is terrific. Nice to know where you will be parked.
I will be arriving on Thursday, how about the rest of you, when you gonna get there.

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Originally posted by Mary Ray:
That overview is terrific. Nice to know where you will be parked.

Mary, I contacted the campground and told them that while looking at the Google overview of the campsite it seems that slot 22 was small. I told Matt, from Racoon Mountain, that your coach was 33' and he said it wouldn't fit. He wants to move you to 16, 18, 140 or 131.

Give Matt a call: (800) 823-CAMP

OK, will move to 18.