Beautiful Day
We had another beautiful day.
We had kind of a long day, drove about 250 miles and made a couple of fun stops along the way. We drove mainly two lane highways through small towns. We started in Tennessee and ended up in Kentucky. I slept on and off most of the ride.
Our first stop was at Oliver Travel Trailers in Hohenwald Tennessee, which was about 40 miles from Natchez Trace State Park. We took an hour tour through the factory. Before the tour we walked around the showroom and through the display units (three). Oliver Travel Trailers is family owned and has two models the Elite and the Elite II. The Elite is 18'5" single axle trailer and sleeps 3 people. It has a rear table that can converted into a bed and the dinette table can be converted into a single bed. It has a small refrigerator, single sink, a microwave, stove, table and a bathroom. The Elite II is 23'6" tandem axle trailer and sleeps 3 people. It's available in both the standard and twin bed floor plans. The floor plan is basically the same as the Elite.
After walking through the showroom we followed Jason over the manufacturing facility. The company actually owns three different companies (fiberglass walk-in tubs, travel trailers and trailers). The tour took us through the process of building the trailers. Jason did a great job of explaining the process. The great thing about the trailer is that it's full fiberglass. The top and bottom wrap around each other and there are no seams. The trailers are very nice.
The next stop was Game Galaxy in Smyrna Tennessee, which was 75 miles from Oliver Travel Trailers. The drive was mainly two lane highways and interstates. We have a virtual pinball machine and love playing the games and wanted to play some original pinball machines. We hadn't played them since we were kids. Game Galaxy was located in an old building right across the street from the train depot. We parked in the train depot parking lot and walked over to the shop. Before doing so we had lunch in the Minnie.
Game Galaxy has over 200 pinball and arcade games. It cost $15.00 to play for the day or $12.00 an hour. We were there for two hours and had a great time. The manager was very friendly. We played lots of the same games we have and others we don't have. I played one arcade game, Ms Pac Man. They had a couple of Elvia games and we don't have either one of them. There certainly is a difference in playing real pinball verses virtual, the main difference being the real machine have true 3d objects instead of graphics trying to look 3d. While owning a real pinball machine would be terrific they are very expensive, take up a lot of room, they weigh 100's of pounds and they are maintenance intensive. Our virtual pinball cabinet doesn't take up as much room as the real pinball machine and is easily movable, one virtual machine can have 100's of games built in. We highly recommend Game Galaxy because most of the games work and we had a super time.
Judge Dredd (we don't have)
Elvira
Star Trek (we have)
Cactus Canyon (we have)
After playing games we continued our adventure to Kentucky. We crossed the Cumberland River via a beautiful big bridge. Larry drove 80 miles from Game Galaxy to Walmart in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where we called it a night.
Larry started driving at 7:30 am and stopped at 5:00 pm., another long day of driving.
After resting I started the generator to heat up some baked ziti for our dinner. Afterwards we went to Walmart and picked up a few things including cream cheese brownies for dessert. Larry has been looking for brownies since the beginning of our trip and couldn't find any in the gas stations we stopped at. He finally found some at Walmart. They were delicious. I ended up doing 25,000 steps, which put me in 5th place in my group.
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