SURPRISE..........and it's not a good one.

Well, we made it to Hohenwald, Tennessee after a moderately long haul through the mountains (really just big hills).  I did get quite a bit of much needed practice with the transmission, manually shifting up and down hill grades.  We ate Mexican this afternoon and retired to the Casita and started chillin' out.  Wendy tuned into the one local news channel and saw a weather person highly excited, trying to relay information about a tornado warning.  I listened for a few minutes and determined there was indeed a tornado spotted on the ground some 30 miles from us and generally heading our way.  But the weather person was not making much sense and her panicked attempt to relay information was only succeeding in freaking me out.  They would never pan out more than a 1/2 mile or so and we couldn't get a fix on the track of the storm.  And they would just spin the map around, up and down.  Well, from all the info I could gather online, it looked as though it would come within a couple miles so we decided to gather everything up pronto and get out of Dodge.  We ended up traveling a 70 mile or so loop to avoid the storm.  A 70 mile or so loop back through the hills, at night and bugs so thick it looked like it was snowing. Not to mention 20 foot drop-offs less than a foot from the highway edge lines.  Yes, my fists were tightly wrapped around the steering wheel.  We made it back around 11 pm, just in time for another thunderstorm attack.  This one however, does not seem severe according  to the online resources.  So we will stay put.  BTW, the tornado did pass just north and we returned to our site and found it undisturbed.  We are thankful!