Friday, September 14, 2012

Gulf Shores 2012

It's been quite a while, but we're finally back traveling again - at least for a month.  We left home on Sunday morning with the trailer to get to Gulf Shores, Alabama.  We stopped for the night in Canton, Mississippi and headed out early Monday to arrive just after lunch time to our favorite campground. 

After a couple of trips to Walmart, we finally got to the beach on Tuesday.  It seems that the word is out about being here in September.  While not jammed like in August, we notice more and more people here, especially in the campground. 

Wednesday before the rain arrived.

We headed 15 miles north to check out the campground where we will be wintering (Jan-March).  We are very excited about being in this park.  Everyone was very friendly and even inquired if we golf, because they get a group of 20 or so people together once a week to golf.  Hopefully this place will work out for us because it's close enough to home that if we really missed everyone, we could drive back in one day.

Yesterday we headed down the beach road to just over the border in Florida to meet up with my Aunts and Uncles who are vacationing in a condo.  We all live within an hour of each other at home, but never see each other (other than funerals).  It was great to visit, and they made us lunch.

Uncle Jim and Aunt Carol, Uncle Dave and Aunt Jeanne



Three different flavored pork tenderloins along with french fries and veggies made for a perfect lunch.


The view from their very large deck. 

Mark has been working on the trailer since we arrived. He is still removing decals that have failed and cleaning the fiberglass to get ready for a coat of wax. Apparently our fifth wheel is now at an age (four) where certain plastic or vinyl parts start to break or just look so weathered that you need to replace them. We have been to Camping World for several items even though we brought stuff with us from home.

Butch has settled in just fine and is getting along with the other dogs in the park. Hopefully he will write a blog entry while we are here.




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