Fair Play, SC

Wednesday neither of us felt like doing anything, so we didn't. Well, we did return to Greensboro and did the laundry then stopped at Wendy's for lunch. We did get ready to leave a day early; dumped the tanks, picked up the outside stuff & put it away, checked the trucks fluids, vacuumed the truck, etc. We aren't very impressed with this CG and think there's more to explore in SC. Thursday we were pulling out of the CG at 9am and made the 98 mile pull north on the back roads then hopped on I85 for 30 miles to another ROD park, Carolina Landing, in Fair Play, SC. This CG is better, the roads are paved and so are many, including ours, sites. It is still VERY hilly so ya gotta watch the towing around inside the CG. In the morning we can add another state to our map, it's been a year since we have added one and we plan to add all the missing ones this trip, plus some Canadian.

Greensboro, Georgia

Monday was a do nothing day, other that inside home cleaning. The campground (CG) area around us is filling up, when we arrived we were only the second RV in this part of the CG. Today we went to a noon movie and saw Lincoln Lawyer, it was an OK movie. After that we stopped at Home Depot to get some Capture, a dry carpet cleaner Mark told us about. We stopped downtown at Yesterdays Cafe for lunch, Judy had a chicken salad while I had country fried steak, both were very good. The buttermilk pie is very good. I wonder where we'll eat tomorrow? We walked around downtown and took the picture of the county courthouse, the statue in front is honoring Confederate dead who fought for "the rights of states". Behind the courthouse is an old jail built on 1807 of 2 foot thick granite blocks. It looks like a very stout jail. Above the only door, on the second story floor, is a trap door used for hangings. When given the signal the hangman opened the trap door "and the culprit was launched into eternity."

Saw Mark & Paula + went to church

Saturday we drove up to Johns Creek, a suburb of Atlanta, to see Mark & Paula. We spent a couple hours chatting with them on the deck of their new home before going out to eat. Good thing I took the camera.....bad thing I forgot to get a couple pics! I did get a cell phone picture of Mark to ID incoming calls. When we arrived back at the camp we spent some time examining our escape route for Friday. Our area is on a hill with some sharp turns and an unlevel road. I'm concerned the trucks bed rails could come into contact with the bottom of the HitchHikers front overhang. If empty, we'll zig zag through another site. Sunday morning we went to the campgrounds church service. Interesting. Retired Preacher Bobby sang all five songs himself with his wife controlling the recorded music. He did a great job. He gave us a good sermon in between the songs and praising. It was a very interesting and good service, there were 10 of us there. After church we went to Subway for lunch then Publix for groceries.

Greensboro, Georgia

Today was a short 185 mile run into Georgia. We are set for a weeks stay at a $2/night ROD membership park. The $2/night is for an upgrade to 50amp service. It took us quite awhile to set up home. The site is quite unlevel and we ended up putting 3" of wood under a rear Big Foot leveler pad, the tires on one side are now 3" off the ground but we are level! After we were level the sat dish lost the satellite but a push of a button & 3 minutes later the dish found the satellite again. We have both been on the Internet getting caught up because we had no signal the last 2 days in Opelika.

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.

Our 2011 travels have begun, the first 100 miles

Sunday evening we started packing up, fine tuning tire air pressure, emptying the holding tanks and putting stuff away. Monday morning we were up bright & early at 8 or 9am, cleaned up then finished the departure routine. We hooked up & pulled out at 9:45 for the 100 mile trip to Summerdale, AL and the Escapees Plantation campground arriving before noon. We were set up 45 minutes later and cooling down, had lunch, relaxed under a shade tree in a nice breeze then made a quick run to Camping World for a couple items. The RV power receptacle in the truck bed broke (still works OK) & I wanted to be prepared with a replacement. Judy is making pork chops, dressing & a veggie for supper. Ruff day on the road! Patches spent an hour outside, she really likes it here! FLASH.....she's back outside now under the tree again. Bet she'll want to go back out after dark, her favorite time to go outside.

Happy birthday Devyn

Hey Devyn....can you see better with Gramp's glasses? We have all had a busy week with Randy & Devyn here. Randy has spent some time pulling cables and installing a couple TVs plus Internet and stereo stuff in Jody & Renato's home. The two northerners have spent time in the campground pool and at the beach a couple days. Randy flipped some steaks for all of us one evening for supper. We celebrated Devyn's twelfth birthday Friday night with red cake and we took them to New Orleans Saturday morning for a direct flight back to Michigan.

On Sunday Jody & Renato spent an hour or so on our HitchHikers roof applying a coat of 303 Protectant, THANKS! After that, and getting cleaned up...it was HOT up there, the four of us went to Newk's for a late lunch, our last visit at a favorite restaurant. THANK YOU LARISSA!