Oct 23, 2011 - DeSoto State Park

What gorgeous weather we're having here in northeastern Alabama on Lookout Mountain! I've been so fortunate to have the opportunity to camp with my daughter, Sue, & son in law, David, in their trailer here in DeSoto State Park. David's cousin, Lisa, her husband, Larry, & their son, Harley, are also with us. More later!

Sep 13, 2011 - Ft. Payne, AL

The weather while in Chattanooga was perfect. Mid 80's during the day, down in the low 50's at night and low humidity. Sunday night a thunder storm developed for an hour or two. Monday morning we drove only 60 miles, but left Tennessee after 20 days, and got into Alabama. With the exception of Alaska, we have not stayed in any state that long. We're camped in De Soto State Park near Fort Payne. This afternoon we drove out to Little River Canyon National Preserve. After viewing Little River Falls, we took a 26 mile scenic drive down the...

Nov 7, 2010 - More On Our Northeastern Alabama Adventures

From Noccalula Falls Campground – Gadsden, AL This destination has been a little unusual in that we have not researched things to see and do like other destinations and also because we have the appointment at Camping World in the middle of our short stay here. As prior post indicated, we arrived mid afternoon on Thursday; 11/4 with available sightseeing days of Friday and Sunday before departing on Monday; 11/8. With this schedule in mind, we drove into Fort Payne Friday morning to go to the country singing group; Alabama’s museum and fan...

Aug 26, 2010 - Little River

We found this area purely by luck - a campground and public airport reasonably close together. We unloaded the plane at Isbell Field and camped at Little River Campground. This was our base for week of flying into Georgia and Tennessee. Wow - what a find! Little River is a new campground. The owner came by several time to talk with us, and many nights we were the only ones there. We extended our stay because it was far enough out of town to be quiet but close enough to be convenient to the trike. The people in Ft. Payne were the nicest. On...

Aug 10, 2010 - INTO TOWNSEND

Woke at 6AM after 8 hours of sleep it was 71 degrees outside. Made Jello and Potato Salad for tonight. Looks like it will be a great day, sunny and gorgeous. We are going into town. On our way back we will find a computor place and put in yesterday and today writeups. Then onto a short hike to Clingman Dome the highest place in the park at 6643 feet. Dan slept for 12 solid hours last night. Beautiful.

Aug 8, 2010 - Our Last Day in Alabama

Temperature at 8:30 AM was 81 degrees and sunny. Only one mass on the weekend at Our Lady of the Valley in Fort Payne, 11AM. Got supplies at the Wal Mart. When we go camping Wal Marts stock must rise. At 2PM temperature was 100 degrees. Even my pictures would not go into the computor. So no Picture of Dan in front of the church. Tomorrow we leave for the Smokey Mountain National Park. So we will have no electricity and you might not hear from us for awhile. Sure hope the temperature is lower.

Nov 11, 2009 - Everyday Living

From Wills Creek RV Park, Fort Payne, in the NE corner of Alabama. First off, let me express my appreciation to our veterans on this Veteran’s Day…..THANK YOU for your sacrifices!!!! You know how I have mentioned that this full-time RV’ing life is much like full-time stick-house living in a lot of ways? It is the benefits of the rest of the time that make a huge difference between the two, but these past few days have been a good example of the similarities. Let’s talk about it a bit. Over the weekend we watched probably more hours of TV...

Nov 4, 2009 - Sweet home Alabama

In our initial planning, we wanted to stay 'in the south' and 'out of the weather', so the south band of the US is a great choice at least until February. The first state in our southern stay is Alabama, and we plan to stay here for the next 4 weeks. Partially in the north, and partially in the south by the Gulf. We are taking our time slow here, and we would like to visit the many state parks around this area, including DeSoto park, and Ruby Falls in Chattanooga, TN, but this in another post. We are staying in Wills Creek campground, a...

Nov 3, 2009 - Cattle Auction & Other Ft. Payne Info

From Wills Creek RV Park, Fort Payne, in the NE corner of Alabama. Written & posted 11/07/09. As we drove down Airport Road approaching the campground on the day that we first arrived here at Wills Creek, we passed a livestock auction barn about a mile before getting to the campground. I had been looking for such a barn for the past 12-18 months just so I could experience such an auction. I immediately told Vicki that I was going to one of these auctions while we were here. This particular barn has sales every Tuesday. Until this week, it...

Nov 3, 2009 - Wills Creek RV Park in Fort Payne, AL

Knowing that todays drive was a little more than we have been doing we got up and had all ready to leave Lakeview RV Park by 9:30 a.m.. This day we would drive 275 miles which is more than we have been doing. Pat drives the PT Cruiser, following me when we are on the road. We started out and after a short time got onto Hwy 81 with no problems. Traffic was light and it was another clear sunny day with no wind. Scenery was good. As we approached Chattanooga traffic became a bit heavier and I heard Pat yell over the CB Radio, "Watch out for...

Oct 27, 2009 - B..i..k..e..r..s = F..r..i..e..n..d..s

From Wills Creek RV Park, Fort Payne, in the NE corner of Alabama. Since I last mumbled in your presence, we have had some active days, some busy days & some lazy days……& no, busy & active are not necessarily synonymous, for us anyway. I’ve gone to bed several nights kicking myself that I did not write a journal entry that day, promising myself that I would do so the next day….only to once again get to bed to kick again. So, without further ado, let’s get the fingers limbered-up. Last Friday we received an email & then a phone call within a...

Oct 5, 2009 - Alabama

We got up and when we were awake, fed and feeling like it, we took off for warmer weather. There was not so much wind, but it started to sprinkle when we pulled into another Passport America campground - Wills Creek Campground in Ft. Payne, AL. This is a fairly new campground with plans for expansion. Very nice and clean. PA is not accepted on Sundays, so we saved nothing last night. We are, however, going to stay here another night, so we'll save half the fee tonight. We are still looking for warm. This morning it is 57 degrees, which is,...