Pathfinder II
- 4,227
- First Name
- Danan
- Last Name
- Coleman
- Member #
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1358
- Ham/GMRS Callsign
- W3AWD
- Service Branch
- CERT
So my wife and I often visit her parents cabin in the woods of Tennessee and I like to take the opportunity to camp somewhere different each time on the way home.
Last night we stayed at the Shellmound Campground in Jasper, TN. As it turned out we were the only tent campers there so we got a prime spot right on the water and we were completely alone.
As it turns out, it's a dam and so there was a fair amount of dam noise. But... dessert mimosas helped to make us not care about the noise.
By around 11:00pm if was all pretty quiet anyhow. Just the sounds of birds eating fish, fish fleeing from birds and fish jumping and such. I'll be honest it kept me awake. Oh yes, then there was the trains... they went by about every two hours. Though they were on the other side of the lake, it was extraordinarily loud, sound travel over water being what it is. Oh... let me not forget the enormously loud fog horn that went off in the morning before sunrise as the dam people warned people down river of the incoming surge of water...
So, all in all quite an awful sleep. But it's always worth the adventure and I wouldn't choose anyone else to overland with than my best friend/wife!
Last night we stayed at the Shellmound Campground in Jasper, TN. As it turned out we were the only tent campers there so we got a prime spot right on the water and we were completely alone.
As it turns out, it's a dam and so there was a fair amount of dam noise. But... dessert mimosas helped to make us not care about the noise.
By around 11:00pm if was all pretty quiet anyhow. Just the sounds of birds eating fish, fish fleeing from birds and fish jumping and such. I'll be honest it kept me awake. Oh yes, then there was the trains... they went by about every two hours. Though they were on the other side of the lake, it was extraordinarily loud, sound travel over water being what it is. Oh... let me not forget the enormously loud fog horn that went off in the morning before sunrise as the dam people warned people down river of the incoming surge of water...
So, all in all quite an awful sleep. But it's always worth the adventure and I wouldn't choose anyone else to overland with than my best friend/wife!
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