The Grand Circle is Finger Licking Good!

Today we set out on a grand circle of the USA.  We plan to be out about a month.  That sounds long, but we feel like we are "pushing it" even before we start.  We have a lot of what we call "stop and drops" to reach our destinations on schedule.  I thought being retired meant you didn't have a schedule...c'est la vie.

We are taking the northern route out through Chicago, Denver, Lake Tahoe "ending" near Santa Cruz for our niece's wedding.  Then we plan to hit some of our favorite wineries and discover some new ones in Paso Robles.  There we hope to find a place to store Betsy the RV, and then go by truck down to San Diego then start east going through Tuscon, where Dave has an interest in a brewery, and San Antonio, one of the larger towns in Texas we haven't visited.  Then home.  That's the plan... we also hope to find some surprises along the way, and we already have!!

We plan to do about 300 miles per day in the RV, which made our first "stop and drop" in Corbin, Kentucky.  As we were pulling off I-75, there was a sign to "The Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum, Home of KFC".  Anyone who knows Dave, knows we had to stop.  After we settled Betsy into the campground, we took the truck there.  It was pretty much a regular KFC with a little museum attached.  The dining room has the original tables and you can see the first kitchen and a motel room from the Sanders Motor Lodge which used to be next door.  The motel room was in the original cafe as a marketing tool for the motor lodge.  The Colonel realized that the women usually checked out the rooms in his motor lodge before having their husbands book the room, so he put a mock up of a room inside the cafe right across from the women's bathroom!  In the display cases there was a 50 lb. barrel of seasoned flour that he would ship to the cafes once he started the franchise.  He would strip the barrel of all markings to keep his recipe and seasonings a secret.  The food was strictly KFC, but its hard to beat greasy chicken.  We bought enough for lunch along the road the next few days!!   On to Indianapolis.

If you could make it fit our diet, we'd come more often!

So much for the diet:  lunch for several days!!