Pops concert, scarecrows & toiltless

There was an outdoor pops concert in Orange Beach Sunday afternoon so Judy & I went.  We enjoyed it and the weather.  Good thing it was free, probably why there were LOTS of people there.

It's getting close to Halloween.

 

Notice anything missing?  Our toilet broke Wednesday evening.  We spent Thursday researching new toilets vs. using all our spare parts plus a replacement part for the one that broke.  We ordered the part and was told we'd have it Monday.  I called Friday for the UPS tracking number and was told it would not ship until Monday.  Called today and ETA is now tomorrow, Tuesday.  Good thing our site is real close to the bathrooms.
It's raining right now, good thing we washed the trailer this morning.  All is well. 

 

Hunkered down for the winter in Gulf Shores, AL

We arrived in Gulf Shores this afternoon, we stopped in Biloxi at Newk's for lunch because today was mushroom soup day.  Good soup.  We are in a corner site, as you can see, this year.  Lots of sun and mid 80s today.  OK, are now set and ready for winter, bring it on!

Florence, MS

It was only 234 miles today and Mike & I took turns leading the way but it seemed like a very long day.  After setting up and checking out this CG we agreed we should have made our usual stop at Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg, that would have been nicer and cheaper.  AND Judy would have been able to play the slot machines, the advantage to this place is it equals out the distance we travel each day.  All we did this afternoon was cool down, 84 degrees and sunny, then get diesel for $4.47 a gallon.  That's Mike & Debra's HitchHiker beside us.  We are back in the land of cotton, saw lots of it today.

Off to Gulf Shores, 1st travel day

We were up at 7:30 and leisurely packed up.  We spent time saying good bye to our friends, new and old.  Some we have no idea when we'll see next, others we'll be with in Gulf Shores this winter and some next April in the Texas hill country.  We were going to spend the night in Little Rock but discovered the discount Passport America park on the river downtown was full.  Plan B has taken us to Pine Bluff, Arkansas and a nice city park we stayed in back in 2007.  We are 266 miles closer today to our winter home.  We left Tahlequah a few minutes before Mike & Debra but they beat us here, we had a longer lunch/rest stop obviously.  We started out in some serious Oklahoma hills but are now in the flatlands of Arkansas. 

Party time at the rally

                              Here's Harold & Stan putting the new decals on Stan's HitchHiker.

One large peperoni and small big sloppy pizza at Sam & Ella's Chicken Palace.  We have some in our freezer now!  Excellent excellent pizza!

We did a lot of the above.  Mornings, afternoons and evenings in large and small groups, just visiting.  Wes smoked some VERY good brisket and ribs on Friday (rain was forecast Saturday and it did rain) and we had the big pot luck Friday evening.  Judy made her German potato salad.  Saturday afternoon after the rain we all had leftovers.

Chicken Creek rally

                                               Stan & Harold removing some bad decals.

HitchHiker row.  There are 15 RV's here for this years rally.  We had to relocate from the Chicken Creek Corps of Engineers park in Cookson to Indian Village Campground  in Tahlequah.  Due to the US government shutdown all the COE parks are closed as they are federal.  I send messages to my senators, representative and the president expressing anger and frustration with the federal government.  They should all be removed and civil unrest would not surprise me.

Here's tonight's happy hour.  The men in the close area and the ladies further back.  After this some of us walked next door to an Italian restaurant for some food.  Wes took several out on his pontoon boat this afternoon on Tenkiller Lake.   

Tahlequah, OK and the HitchHiker rally

On Monday Stan & Connie and Judy and I made the 160 mike trip to Tahlequah, OK for the CCC rally.  We took the back roads which were scenic and very hilly and twisty.  Here we are set up at Indian Village CG.

There are 7 or 8 of us here now, here's some of us enjoying the weather and happy hour.  We were going to a Corps of Engineers CG called Chicken Creek were the 5 previous rallies were held but our incompetent federal government decided to shut the COE parks down and congress is TOTALLY incompetent.  The CG closing was a minor inconvenience to us but shows how polarized the government is.  They are leading us down a path destroying the USA we grew up in.

Most of us went to Fish's BBQ for lunch today  We did get some work done forst, we managed to repair Wes' non functioning brake and turn signal then install two LED lights inside Stan's HitchHiker.