Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - Walnut Meadow RV Park, Beria KY
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Yeah, what IS that thingy?, San Antonio NM, April 21, 2010
Night camp
Site 43 - Walnut Meadow RV Park, Berea KY
- Walnut Meadow RV Park is on KY Rte 21 about 1/2 mile west of I-75 in Berea KY. Most sites offer 30 and 50 AMP electric and water. There is a dump station and nice facilities with a small laundry.
- There is good Verizon cell phone or EVDO service
- Find Walnut Meadow RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.