September 5 - Harrisonburg, VA

DD#1 slept overnight this morning. And took our critters home with her as she will be minding them for the duration of the trip. We packed up last minute items such as our pillows, laptop, iPads, food, DH's oxygen concentrator, bottle filler, blankets, hairbrush, toothbrushes and the like.

Stopped at Wawa for Sizzlies, 44 ounce diet soda and 20 ounce cup Colombian coffee for me. We also gassed up the MDX since gas is cheaper in Jersey as a rule. By the time we put everything away it was around 8:30 AM. I set the GPS for Gatlinburg, TN even though I knew we wouldn't be going there the first day. After last time in June with the hassle of the GPS only wanting us to travel through the Baltimore Tunnel, and it constantly recalculating the course back to the tunnel over and over again, I routed us to drive directly to the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Hallelujah ! From there I change the course to the Harrisonburg/Shenandoah KOA. Called them and got a nice shaded pull through. The site is super wide without any hinderances to impede our 4 slides.

The campground has free range chickens for fresh eggs. We counted 6-7 hens and 1 rooster. The owner of the chickens checked to see if their were any eggs. She told MIL and I the eggs were an array of colors, which I imagined were like Easter eggs, but in reality they were very subtle pastels. It brought up memories for MIL since she had a chicken and a rooster when she was a child. The owner let us feel the eggs with were still warm, and then told us to wash our hands.

Chicken anatomy lesson as to where eggs come from? Whahaha! I had no idea that the chicken urinates, has bowel movements and lays eggs all from the same place. It was news to me! I'm 59 and I never knew that. Actually it never occurred to me to even ask, which leads to another question, can they do everything else at the same time they are laying an egg? Which come first the egg or the other?