2022 Trip

The last leg of our trip. 

October 27, 2022 - November 1, 2022

We left Segnette State Park in late morning for our short trip to Alabama. 

There are so many bridges in and around New Orleans.

Water everywhere!

Caesar’s Superdome, home of the Saints

We got to see one of the old cemeteries on our way out of town.  So long New Orleans. Great city to visit. 

Just a short drive through southern Mississippi.

We traveled through Mississippi to Alabama for our 4 nights stay at Meaher State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Unfortunately our friends were not able to get a site at the same place but we will still see them the next day for golf.  

Site 54 backs up to Bay John and is a beautifully paved site with a large picnic table and ample room between the sites. 

Another beautiful sunset.

October 28, 2022

One of the reasons for staying in Alabama during this trip is that Tom wanted to play some golf courses on the Robert Trent Jones Trail.

We booked at tee time for the Short Course at Magnolia Grove.

It was a nice day to play 18 holes on the Short Course, which is a par 3 course.  One might think since it's a par 3 course it would be easy.  Not really the case as there were many forced carries over marshlands and bunkers guarding most of greens.  It is rated the number 1 short course in the US by Golf Digest.  It was fun to play.

October 29, 2022

This was a very interesting day.  There were some strong storms predicted for our area so Tim and Marie Claire, Lou and Mary, and Curt and Char decided to leave the area a day early and head for the COE RV park, our next destination, in Georgia. We decided to stay at our park since we had two more nights there. We found a golf course nearby, Lake Forest, where we could walk 18 holes for $20 each.  The course was ok but it was nice to be able to walk it.  It was mostly just cloudy except for the last few holes when it started to rain.  

After golf we stopped at a Home Depot before heading to dinner.  While in the store our phones were going off indicating a tornado warning in the area.😱 They locked down the store and instructed everyone to go to their break room.  There we watched the forecast and radar on their tv.  There were about 20 other customers in there.  Luckily no tornado touched down in this area and after about 20 minutes we were able to leave the store.  When we got outside it was not windy and just raining a little so we decided to stick to the plan and go to dinner at Felix's Fish Camp which was close to Meaher SP.

A band was playing in the Bar/Lounge area and we were able to get a seat at the bar for dinner. The music and the food were both great.  We enjoyed chatting with a young couple who were sitting next to us at the bar.  They live in the area and recommended various sites to see, golf courses to play and local beers to try. We told them about our Home Depot experience and the woman said she had never seen a tornado in the Mobile area and she has lived there her whole life.  As they were leaving after dinner, they wished us well in our travels and we mentioned to them how nice it was to have met them.  We asked the bartender for our check and to our surprise he told us that it had been taken care of by that couple. We were stunned!!!  The bartender told us the gentleman's name is Damon Thompson. Curious as to who this person is, we learned that he is the founder of Damon Thompson Ministries of Theodore, Alabama.

After returning to the camper we got another warning on our phones that there were tornados in the area.  As you can see from the screen shots, we were right on the edge of the danger zone until around 10:30 that night.  We were ready to go to the park's restrooms if needed. Mostly what we experienced was heavy rain with thunderstorms but it was still a very scary few hours.

October 30, 2022

We woke up to a rain soaked campsite and a puddle on the floor in our bedroom.  It appears that our bedroom window leaks with a hard rain. Just another thing for Tom to fix.  We decided to have an early dinner before heading out to explore the Mobile area and playing the RTJ Magnolia Grove Crossings course later in the afternoon.  We only finished 15 holes before it got dark.  It was a very challenging course with several forced carries and tons of sand traps.

Downtown Mobile

We made it back to the camper in time to watch the Bills defeat the Packers 27-17.  Go Bills!!!

October 31-November 1, 2022

Traveled the 203 miles from Alabama to Georgia on Halloween. Stayed at the Eastbank COE in Bainbridge, GA for only one night so we didn’t need to unhook the truck from the camper. 

Oh no!  Where’s the rest of our fender skirt?  Just gotta laugh!

Nice park with huge gravel sites. We had one that backs up to the water. So peaceful and quiet. 

Beautiful sunset!

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 

Just 263 miles left to get to Paradise!!

On the 51st day of our cross country trip, we arrived in Paradise Oaks RV Resort in Bushnell, FL. We traveled through 18 different states, one of them twice, and stayed at 19 different campgrounds for a total of 7313 miles. We spent 21 days on our own and 30 days with some very special friends. It’s been a great adventure and we look forward to our next one.