Monthly Archives: March 2009
It’s always something…
When we started to head out for lunch and shopping this morning, the first thing I had to was unhook the toad. We didn’t go out Tuesday night after we got here so we were still hooked up. Usually this is about a 5 minute job, but not today.
Normally when we pulled into a site the toad is straight out behind us, but as you can see from yesterday’s post, we are parked on a site with a slight curve.
This put enough pressure on the tow bars that they did not want to release by hand. They also didn’t want to release using a big hammer and a lot of lubricant. I then tried to unhook the entire hitch from the back of the coach, but it was binding just like the tow bars so no luck there.
Finally I was able to get everything loose by having Jan jog the truck in reverse and forward while I pried on things. So, an hour later we were finally on our way.
To quote Roseanne Roseannadanna, “It’s always something.”
Later…
Hitting the Jackpot!
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Jan and I received two $25 Player cards from the Hollywood Casino as part of staying at their RV park.
The first card we ran thru the slots pretty quickly. Since we weren’t having much luck we decided to save the last one for this morning after we had coffee at the Casino coffee shop.
I usually let Jan play the machines because I just don’t have much luck with them. And this time she really came thru.
In about 10 minutes she had run our free $25 up to $103.40. Since this covered our two night stay at the park, our two meals, and our morning coffee, Jan hit the CashOut button and we walked away with all our expenses covered and bucks left over.
Sweet!
We headed out about 11 am on our way to Gulf Shores, AL, stopping outside Mobile for lunch at about 1 pm at a favorite BBQ chain of ours called Sonny’s BBQ.
We moseyed (we’re retired. we mosey a lot.) on in to the Gulf Shores State Park RV Park about 3:30 pm.
Our site at Gulf Shores State Park RV Park
We got a nice pull-thru* site far from the maddening crowd with a great view of the bayou right outside our door. It was kinda unnerving to find a sign right down the road that says “Do Not Feed or Aggravate the Alligators“.
Apparently, Alligator Alley is right outside our door.
Well, that’s reassuring! I’ll certainly do my best not to aggravate them.
On second thought, what aggravates a gator, anyway? Not letting him eat you, or what?
Gulf Shores is a favorite place of ours and has a lot of history for me. My parents moved down here from Birmingham when I was about 2 1/2 and built one of the first big motels on the beach. We lived here in the Gulf Shores / Foley area until I was 13 and we moved to Colombia, South America. But that’s another story.
Anyway, we’ll probably hang around here for a week or so, just resting up. Retirement can be hard work, let me tell you.
* a pull-thru site is desirable since I don’t have to fool with backing the coach in or out, and if we’re really lucky, it’s long enough so that we don’t have to unhook the toad if we don’t want to.
More tomorrow…
