In April 2007 we had sold our home in Michigan and moved into our new fifth wheel trailer to start our adventure of full timing and exploring in our RV. We started our blog so family and friends can track us and see what we are up to. You can double clink any picture to enlarge it.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Spring Villa Park in Opelika, AL....& Penn Yonge



On our last day in Summerdale I had my new tooth cap installed, we checked out the beach, had shrimp at the Shrimp Basket, and made a Wal Mart stop for supplies.....oh, how can I forget, $200 for diesel at $4.05 gallon.

We left about 9am and made the 240 mile trip to Opelika, AL. Our plan was to check out the Tuskegee Airmen museum Thursday. We set up home in a small county park 8 miles off the xway that is based upon an old Gothic style house built in 1850 by plantation owner Penn Yonge. Seems that old Penn was not very kind to his slaves and a few years later one of them cornered him on the 13th step upstairs and cut old Penn's head off. Studies of the paranormal have been done in the house with mixed results. We slept well in the shadow of the old house without old Penn disturbing us. I did have to disconnect the power at night because the CG has rather high voltage, 133v, which caused our Electrical Management System to intermittently shut AC power off to the RV. No big deal, we ran on the 12v batteries.

We didn't make it to the airman's museum, their website told us it was very small and had a 4 minute video, I've seen much more on the History & Military channel. We did go to town & sat in a Wendy's parking lot where our cell hot spot got a decent signal so we did some basic Internet stuff done.