Mar 17, 2013 - Happy St Patty's Day

Today we took a leisurely drive 205 miles along the coast of the rest of Florida to our new campground, Yogi Bear Jellystone RV park in Elberta, AL. We are about 20 miles from the National Naval Air Museum which we will visit. The far western coast of the Florida Panhandle is much more developed than where we had been. Apparently they call this area the Emerald Coast. Lots of people, high rises and commercial development. It looks like it is probably very popular with tourists and probably snowbirds as well. We like the less-developed...

Dec 19, 2011 - Gulf Coast Update

Here is a rundown of what we have been up to the past couple weeks. We arrived at Southern Oaks RV Resort in Aransas Pass, TX on Tuesday December 6th. Aransas Pass is northeast of Corpus Christi, TX on the Gulf Coast. During our stay here we met up with Bill and Diane Quigley, family friends from NH that winter in Aransas Pass. The Quigley's gave us a tour of the area and treated us to lunch at two local restaurants. The rest of our visit to this area we spent sightseeing on the motorcycle to nearby Port Aransas, Mustang Island and Padre...

Oct 29, 2011 - Day 61

Leaving the coach in Navarre, Eddi, myself, Diane (my ex), and granddaughters Julian and Katarina drove over to Elberta, AL to attend their German Sausage Festival. They hold the festival twice a year to support the Volunteer Fire Department and other organizations. It is held the last Saturdays in March and October. There is no charge to get in. There are a lot of vendors and a very lot of good food, not just German Sausage. I will say that they do sell a whole lot of sausage. They had two bands playing, one by the 'beer garden', the other...

Jan 20, 2010 - Our first trip in the Monty

This was our first trip in the new-to-us Monty. We finally got to the Lazy Acres campground in the pouring rain at 1:30. We got the last pull-through spot (YAY!) and drove in. I am not a good backer-upper... I messed up leveling the RV and had to re-attach it to the truck and move it off the leveling blocks, remove a layer, and put it back on. All in the pouring rain. The walkie-talkies we have did NOT work very well, probably because was are not used to them. I had to get the slides out and the electricity connected so we could eat (Gloria...