We had some fun yesterday as we decided to leave the Gulf and head north.  We got a bit mixed up (my fault) and took some back roads heading to our destination here at Red Bay, AL.  Because of the slow going on mostly rural roads we stayed last night at Tuscaloosa.  We couldn’t find any Rv parks in the city and it was too warm to stay at Walmart so we found online a park outside of Tusc.  It had a nice website and looked nice on the computer.  But when we arrived it was kind of overgrown and a bit sketchy.  

It turned out fine as it was really quiet.  The park manager (toothless) mentioned that we should keep Andie on a leash as his brother across the field and in the trees raised fighting roosters and they were protected by Pitt Bulls. 

Right off the bat we had no power in our 50 amp hookup so the manager had to call his maintenance man to trouble shoot.  He got us going but I asked him why they didn’t have breakers at the box.  He said it was because of “aints!”  I’ll let you figure that one out.   He didn’t have any teeth either.

It’s a different world here in the South.  We stopped for lunch at a Subway and for the life of me I couldn’t understand what the lady was saying.  I just gave her a $20 and let her make change all the while she was talking in a foreign language.

We have never seen so many churches.  Mostly they seemed to be Baptist churches and a few Methodist operations thrown in for good measure.  Simply amazing. But we did the math and decided that a little town of say 3000 souls could fill up several churches since there must be some kind of mandatory church rule down here.  Claudia counted 7 churches in a town with a population of 5,000.

Today’s journey was  beautiful with mostly pine forests and hardwood deciduous trees along the highway corridor.  There was one stretch of highway that had pond after pond for as far as you could see.  I thought that it might be rice farming but we spotted a sign that solved the mystery.  They were commercial catfish farms.

Dogwood trees are in full bloom as are azaleas. Purple wisteria seems to bloom in the wild and is really beautiful.  All of this is unseasonably early as the locals said that normal temperatures are usually in the sixties.  Today it was 82.

Here are a couple of pictures of the Tiffin (our coach manufacturer) repair facility where we are today.  We want to get a few things fixed and tour the factory.  More on that in the days to come.

I’ll be loving you.

Grandpa