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We made it to Madison, Alabama and are visiting with our friends, Richard and Nancy and Daisy their dog.  Back in the day Nancy and I worked at the same school.  She taught kinders in the room next to me for many years.   They have a wonderful home. I will see if I can get some pix taken tomorrow to show you.

 They took us out to dinner and I had my favorite, baby back ribs.  I also ate by first onion blossom, yum.  It was wonderful of them to do this, thank you.

Tonight it is suppose to get down in the 20's.  We do not have power here so Nancy invited us to stay the night in the house and we took her up on the invite.  Rog and I were thinking of the last time we spent a night in a stick house since we started full timing it in the RV.  It has been almost 4 years since we had our own home.  



We have been visiting and it is late so I was get pix and more tomorrow. 

 

This is the pond at the Georgia RV site in the morning.  Spring is here, you can tell by the tornado warnings, large golf ball hail warnings, and rain.  It rained the whole night with just a little lightening and thunder.  Doing the 1, 1000  counting thingy I calculated the lightening was about 10 miles away. 

I was concerned about leaving in the morning because of the closeness of the road to the pond.  I was concerned with all the rain and the weight of the rig that the edge of the pond could cave in and we would be in the pond.  Rog had to go so very close because they had a pole of some kind on the other side so he had to swing wide to miss that.   We made it out just fine of course.  

We have been noticing all the car carriers heading south hauling Indy cars to the St. Pete, Flordia Indy race this weekend or maybe it is next weekend.  

Rog also noticed right away leaving flat Florida there are a lot more hills on the roads know.   He is having to apply the gas a lot more now.

We saw sign after sign about the Georgia Pecans and I am thinking these are the trees.  They are not thinking it is Spring yet and have not blossomed.

We drove by Fort Benning Military Reservation with the peeps out marching or some other kind of military stuff.  They may sent the black helicopters after me after you see these pix.  LOL
 Camp Benning was established in October 1918 and was assigned permanent status in 1918. Initially providing basic training for World War I units, post-war.  In February 1920, Congress voted to declare Camp Benning a permanent military post.  
 

 

Military stuff.  Notice they are Iraq tan still. 

 
This was a beautiful surprise.  We are traveling on US 280 toward Columbus, Greogia  below us is I 185 which goes into the military reservation.  These statues are for the entrance to the base.

 “The Columbus Gateway Foundation completed construction of this magnificent structure encompassing 56 acres, 20 flags, 20 fountains, and life-size statues atop the gateway pillars. The monument’s four statues are two bald eagles, a “Trooper on the Plains” representing the Armor school and a “Follow Me” Infantryman, all well-known symbols to members of the military and especially important to those attending the base’s Armor and Infantry training facilities.”

We are now in Alabama.
We are in a city somewhere in Alabama driving down a six lane highway in heavy traffic and out of the blue the car to the right and in front of Rog just stops in the middle of the road.  All we can see are two people in the front seat just beating each other up.    LOL Well it was not so funny at the time.  This could have been a real problem, but all around we alert today and missed having a big accident.

Spring and some things are blooming.

We (Rog) decided the old tow bar was not working properly so we needed a new one.  This is the first time we  have unhooked it. The tow bar is called a Black Hawk.  Impressed yet?  It is a 10,000 pound all terrain tow bar! Now??  It is really pretty and clean. 

Our new digs in Alabama.  It is a great place for children and I know the grandkids would love this place.  They have a park with so many things for them to do.  It is called DeSoto Caverns.  They have many activities: pedal go-carts which are really fun to watch, crystal find, water balloon fights and the setting is two forts you climb into and throw from above or below raid the other guys fort.  They have over 28 fun activities.  They also have the DeSoto Cavern.

These pix are from their web site.  We did not go in the cavern because we have places to be and people to see. 
 

Well we finally made it out of Florida.  
We got up and packed quite early so we could leave early.  Well not so much.  As Rog was leaving out of the resort in Florida a man walking beside the road told him the front right wheel was making a clicking sound.  Rog was also hearing it.  We drove up to the front to hook up.  So after hooking the car up he decided to check out the wheel noise.  So he got his tool to take of the wheel cover off.  Not so fast!  We had work done on the rig earlier and they really tightened them down.  He was bending the tool it was so tight.  Well we just had to leave without finding the answer to the what the noise was.  The noise has gone.  We think Florida Steve, squirrel stashed a nut in there. LOL 

We needed to get fuel.  Rog had this scoped out earlier and he knew where he was going and how to get in and out of the gas station.  Always important with over 70ft. of  stuff to move in and out of places.  He decided to take the last pump because of the ease of in and out.  Well not so fast.  The first set of pumps in this group was out of order which forced Rog to pull out into the entrance/exit.  So to eliminate so much sticking out he told me to unhook the nozzle and extend it as far as it would go.  Well there was a tablespoon or so of deisel in the nozzle and it spilled out onto my new shoe!!!  

Well the rest of the trip was great.  We just had to have a few dents in the armor, but no big things went wrong.  Michelle would love this place because you can see and hear the train from the rig.  In this pic the train is in the trees, then a small pond, and then the road to exit out of our site is seen on the bottom of the pic.  I would say they come by about every two hours.  I do love to hear the whistle (Rog insists they are horns) of a train.  I am just going by a song I know.  I do not know if  I would want to live by the tracks, but for a night, yes.

Our site.  It is a long pull through.  
We are listening to the weather reports and breaking news for northern Georgia where we are heading tomorrow !!   TORNADOS, LARGE HAIL, STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
This weather system better get over before we move on to the northern regions.  

 
 

Yep!!!



 This is my last blog from Florida.  We are going to start going North very slowly.  We are stopping in Alabama to visit with a co-worker of mine and then on to some friends we met in Tennessee that live in Alabama.  I am looking forward to being on the move again.  

This morning we woke up to 12 to 13 hot air balloons drifting over head.  

 This is our flag in the pic.

They were so pretty.

Some were coming in low.  I was hoping to get to the lake, but I can not move out as fast as I would like.  I was thinking this one might land in the lake.  This pic is hazy for a couple of reasons. One the pic was taken almost into the sun and two there was fog on the lake in that direction. 

I got there as soon as I could and the balloon hopped over these fishermen.

Flying low

This one landed in a field just on the other side of the resort.

Floated over head so I was able to get the flame.

This is our site and Les and Michelle lived next to us.  They left today.

This is a bird just outside the door of the RV just singing away. 

I tried looking this guy up in my book, but I am sorry to say I lost interest with all the brown birds and I will just call it a pretty brown bird.


 We took a walk this morning and a fellow walker was looking in the weeds and showed us a pigmy rattlesnake.  They say the bite is not as bad as a rattle snake, but it can make you or our dog pretty sick.  Out of here!


 

cake gracwe

  This is Poppy's next cake.  

We stayed home and played dominoes.  Michelle and Les are leaving for home tomorrow.  It was great to spend their Spring Break with us.  Oh yes, they work for a school district as crossing guards so they had this week off, but have to go back to w***.

We decided to celebrate and head for Chile's for dinner.  We had a good meal.  

We needed to head back to camp because they needed to start packing up for the trip home.   
 

 

This is the lizard (plastic no messy fingers) that Les let me pick out for fishing bait.  I was wondering what we were fishing for with bait that big.  I was thinking since we are in Florida maybe alligators.  I let it be known that I was not taking them off the hook or keeping the stringer on my boat.  But Les assured me that it was for bass not alligator.  Oh , ya I did not fish here because I do not have a Florida fishing license.  I was just holding Les' second pole.   

We are camping near the lake so Rog decided to put the boats on the wheels and wheel them down to the lake. So off he goes.

When we got there we noticed guys fishing off the dock.  I did not ask to see their big lizards for catching alligators or how many they caught so far.  LOL

Les and Rog are bringing down the other kayak.

I have no idea what is going on here nor do I want to.

Rog had launched me and then Les.  This is the first time for Les fishing while in a kayak.

Not so bad.  The morning started off calm.  We had waited two days to go out, but the wind did not cooperate with us until today.   We did get quite a breeze while out there, but waited it out. 

Les got his line all knotted up out there so he needed to stop and get things fixed.  Here is his bad boy for catching alligators oops bass.

Still trying to find the fish.

Here is Les sneeking up on an "alligator" log.  Easy does it, Les.

We came upon a Sand Hill Crane nesting at the edge of the lake.  Soon there will be little bitty orange Sand Hill Cranes.

  I will not be here for the eggs to hatch so here is the little orange baby. 


 

It was a bit breezy so we decided not a good day for kayaking.  So we headed to dream some about new RV's.  The park has a RV show here from a local dealer.  They have between 20 to 30 RV's, from motorhomes, 5th wheels, to trailers. 

Rog thought this one was nice.  I was looking at 5th wheels.  We all left to our old RV's.

For lunch I got the stuff together to make a dish I got off Facebook from Sheri, our daughter-in-law.  It was a great success!!!  You should really try this.  You can also use different meats and things for stuffing. 
You will need: 
 Refrigerator buttermilk biscuits,
pepperoine
cheese
garlic powder
parmesan cheese
jar of pizza sauce
Take a biscuit and flatten it.  Place a pepperoni in the center.  Place a piece of cheese on the pepperoni.  Place another pepperoni.  Now fold the edges of the biscuit over the top of the pep and cheese to seal all the goodies in.  Place on baking sheet and sprinkle with garlic powder and parmesan cheese.  Place in 350 oven until done.  Serve with pizza sauce for dipping.     

Les is making one here.  Flatten biscuit now place the pepperoni, now for the cheese and so on.

Michelle has made a couple and is working on another.

Here they are done and ready to eat.

Very good

 

Rog is using a fork instead of dipping as finger food.  Whatever floats your boat. 

Then we played more dominoes.