OUR TENNESSEE TRAVELS continued and brought us to another one of my Happy Places for a week, Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. This adorable hamlet with a population of about 600 rural residents is a 30-minute trek southwest of Nashville. But with its bucolic, rolling hills and a handful of local shops to peruse, including the Leiper’s Fork Distillery, its worlds away. And just like that, bingo! I finally figured out how to get Jim to travel to town with me!
However, disappointment with the lack of campgrounds and a desire to spend some time discovering this area sent us running to VRBO where, for our first time ever while full-timing in our Airstream, we found the perfect VRBO vacation rental to call home for a week. With our 30’ Silver Booty on the bumper, along with two 80# mutties, we were welcomed to the GratiDude Ranch by Demarco and Jason, also from California, along with their twin sons. For one week we seized the 800-square-foot guesthouse and in the blink of an eye, increased our living space four times over while we easily adapted to a bricks & mortar country home. The biggest plus? A spacious shower and a kitchen just slightly larger than our Airstream’s galley which got me in the cooking mood.
This stop also provided me the perfect opportunity to visit the Fork’s newest proprietor, Brooke Giannetti of Patina Home & Garden. Brooke along with her husband, Steve, who excels at beautiful & amazing architectural home plans while she and her creative eye easily designs a home’s interior so inviting that you will never want to leave, have settled in along with some farm critters who made the journey from Ojai. The Giannetti’s have chosen a beautiful 100-acre homestead complete with a 150-year-old cabin they renovated and live in. This dreamy lifestyle fits them both perfectly and the best part? They hail from Ojai so we had a lot to catch up on! https://www.patinahomeandgarden.com/
Camp Dawg 