May 9, 2013 - Montgomery AL

Went to the capital of Alabama today. What a surprise, it was a beautiful, easy to navigate city. Steve's main focus was the Hank Williams Museum in downtown Montgomery. It was incredible. They have a great amount of memories including hi s death car, the suit he was found in and so much more. You have got to go when in Montgomery. Then for this Yankee girl, what better place than the Confederate White House. Beautiful, historical home. Period furniture, paintings. I really liked it. All the people we met today were more than kind and very...

May 2, 2013 - Finally moved on

Monday our guy came back to sort the electrics but no luck he was then convinced it was the batteries ( which were new last year) so we decided to take it into camping world Tuesday, after spending $210 they said they had fixed it, we were not convinced they had by their report, anyway we drove back to the campsite plugged it all in and guess what it still did not work right, well we were thoroughly p….d off by then, phoned them up then drove it back again, they just were not listening to us about what it was not doing. Anyway the upshot it...

Apr 2, 2013 - Montgomery Alabama

Lundi nous avons quitté Gulfport vers 9h30 et avons voyagé sur la I10 jusqu'à Mobile Alabama ensuite sur la I65 nord jusqu'à la capitale de l'Alabama, Montgomery, nommée en l'honneur du général Richard Montgomery de la guerre révolutionnaire de 1776. Nous devions y dormir un soir et partir mardi matin. Mais ce matin nous avons décidé de visité la ville. Donc ce matin à 9h30 nous arrivions au cœur de la ville, Montgomery est une ville de 200, 000 habitants et étant la capitale, on y trouve le capitole qui est leur parlement. Historiquement...

Mar 27, 2013 - Montgomery - Civil War and Civil Rights

We have had a new low for the year – 33.6 at 6:00 (local time) this morning in Montgomery. Monday We stayed at the campground on Monday. I had a few things that I needed to do on the trailer and Ginger did laundry. I walked over to the dumpster with trash and noticed a truck and fairly new Excel 5th wheel parked at Arby’s. I walked over to check it out. While doing so, the owners came out and gave me a peek inside. Very nice! They make their own frames and adjust the axle position depending on what the customer orders on it. That way they...

Mar 25, 2013 - Moving on

Good morning! It stopped raining sometime early Sunday morning. It was overcast but the skies cleared as we made our way northeast. Once again we decided what our route and next stop would be after we hit the road. We elected to continue to follow secondary roads - 41, 28 and 21 for about 130 miles to our next stop, the new Woods RV Park & Campground about 10 miles south of the City of Montgomery (Passport park). You just can't get the same views and feel for an area traveling the Interstate highway system - travel the red roads! The routes...

Mar 20, 2013 - stalling for better weather

We left Foley and drove about 175 miles to Woods Campground in Montgomery. We have been here once before. It is a nice flat campground with large pull thru spots. We are staying here 3 days waiting for it to warm up in Ky. We drove around Montgomery tuesday. We thought there was a nice walking trail at the river downtown but we were wrong or we never found it. Did see some big old beautiful Church's and some big houses. Guess there is going to be snow flurries in northern Alabama and Tennessee Friday so Donald has decided we need to get...

Dec 11, 2012 - Slowly we head deeper south

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 The weather stayed pretty grand while we finished our stay on the mountaintop in Huntsville. We hit one more museum that was close by to us, the Burrit House Museum. A kind of eccentric doctor built a straw bale house not too far from the cg in 1938. Actually the straw was just used as insulation between the walls as some do today. Makes for a very thick wall tho. Anyway it was sort of a mansion, it’s big. Unfortunately on the day he moved in an electrical short started the straw on fire and his house burned down...

Nov 5, 2012 - Finally Florida bound!

We were finally able to leave for Florida yesterday. Spent last night dry camped at Red Bay which is still full to overflowing (only dry camping available). We just needed to pick up a few screws to replace ones that fell out of the trim on our living room slide. Tonight we are with full hook ups in Montgomery Alabama (Maxwell AF Base campground). We will fuel up in the morning and head out for Destin! We were originally set to be there October 19th. so this has been a long time coming!

Sep 25, 2012 - Montgomery, Alabama

We are in Montgomery, Alabama because my nephew and niece, Todd and Brooke, and their new baby Mila are here. Todd is in the Air Force and participating in a two month leadership development program. We met them at a Chili's last night and saw Mila for the first time. They live in Omaha so we are too far apart to expect frequent visits. Mila is adorable. She is doing really well and is going to be six months old tomorrow. This afternoon we went to see some of the Civil Rights sights in Montgomery. We went to a museum about the bus boycott...

May 4, 2012 - Alabama State Capitol

It's been 5 years since Tom and I visited Montgomery Alabama - what a change! New businesses have opened in what were once empty buildings. The downtown is so very clean - looks like all the buildings have been power washed. I didn't get to the Capitol then so I thought I'd stop and do it today as I work my way to Knoxville via Chattanooga( tomorrow). The legislature meets across the way in the State Office Building so, even though the Governor's office is still in the Capitol, the building acts mostly as a museum now. In 1960 the building...

May 3, 2012 - The Woods Rv Park

Drove 190 miles today in the pouring down rain. Was really glad to get off the road. This campground is very nice for a overnight stay. Large pull though sites and very level. Grass and gravel sites but the ground is real solid. Thank goodness because it has rained about 6 inches in the last day. Will move on tomorrow. Don't plan on driving more than 200 miles a day so it will be Monday before we get back to Cedarmore.

Mar 10, 2012 - Should've been a Cowboy! - Montgomery, Alabama!

So, there is ALOT to update you on!! So much so, it's gonna have to be in multiple blog posts.. I've been putting off blogging for a long time but a quiet Friday night in procrastinating from doing my essay has lead me to my blog :) So the week before Spring Break I went to Montgomery in Alabama with my friends Lauren, Jane Marie, Kathleen, Sarah, Christine and Devyani to Jane Marie's farm! It was so so so so fun! On the way there we stopped at a massive outdoors store called Bass Pro to look at all the crazy farm, fishing, hunting Alabama...