Team Seacats

No…we haven’t stopped at Waffle House…yet… (stacked, smothered, and covered is common Waffle House wait-staff slang for pan fried potato shavings covered with god-knows-what). We got on the road about three hours later than we had expected and we’re currently about 20 minutes east of Nashville, TN and it’s 11:30pm central time. David and I had a to-go dinner (term used loosely) from Krystal’s because they were conveniently located next to the gas station we were using at that particular stop. David has never experienced Krystal’s before (I lived a while in Tennessee so my ‘antibodies’ are developed) and unfortunately hasn’t built up the proper resistance to it – he’s suffering at the moment with some subterainian quakes. We’re going to push for a little more than an hour to reach a Wal-Mart parking lot in Clarksville, TN to shut down for the night. That will leave us with about 4 hours to go on this 12 hour journey and should catch us back up with our caravan of cat sailors headed to IL. There are two other RV’s from our area pulling boats that are staying in campgrounds in that general vicinity but we don’t see the point in the time and expense to check in and shut down the RV for 5 or 6 hours when a parking lot will serve just fine (especially considering we got a late start – but having the time to grill out a steak would have sounded pretty good!). We’re not sure if we want to try and tag up with them to caravan into Lake Carlyle, or if we want to tip-toe away early in the morning to beat them there – we are racers afterall. Anyway, the double stack rig with the 150cc scooter is doing just fine – it’s actually towing better than I had hoped and barely wiggles back there. We’ve had to tighten up a couple of straps when we check at fuel stops but the bearings are running luke warm and the tires seem to be agreeable. The RV got about 9mpg through the mountains of western NC … which is an improvement over the previous 5 and 6 I was getting on flat ground – looks like I did find the problem in the signal to the engine management computer from the O2 sensor. Hopefully we’ll hit 10 or perhaps 11mpg when we reach some flatter ground. Still though, it’s not bad considering what we’re pulling.

Originally uploaded by Team Seacats.