Very easy travel day for me today. Left the campground around 10:00 this morning and finished up in a rest area just inside the southern border of N. Carolina. Only 200-250 miles total for the day so it was easy to stop multiple times during the day just because I could. A couple of rest stops, gas fill-up, a couple hours at a truck stop so I could get on line. Pulled in here around 7:30 and am now just waiting for it to quiet down enough to get some sleep.

   Spent several hours reading a new book this evening. A friend of mine gave me a couple real 'paper' books before I left and I'm just getting started on this one. Very interesting so far, the book is 'In Harms Way' by Doug Stanton and is a history about the men who were on the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis that was sunk at the end of WW II. Lot's of interesting facts that I had never heard of before including the fact that it had carried the trigger device as well as the cesium that was to be used in the 'Big Boy' bomb that was dropped on Japan. All very hush-hush at the time of course. Even the crew had no idea what it was. Looking forward to reading some more of it tonight.

    Finally, I had picked up one of those box sets of old movies at Target a few weeks ago so I got it out and watched one tonight. First were two 'Three Stoogies' shorts and then the movie which was basically a biography of Jerome Kern. He a song writer at the turn of the century who was responsible for many of the songs in Broadway shows, and then later, movies, for the next 40-50 years. He wrote the tunes to the play 'Show Boat' among others, a show that was perhaps most famous for the song 'Ole Man River'. Pretty good movie, but not great. Still; it was fun to see young versions of such stars as Dinah Shore, Angela Lansberry, Judy Garland, Lena Horne and Van Johnson.