Birmingham Bound…
Our day started out with breakfast at IHOP before coming back to the rig to get ready to leave Capital City RV Park here in Montgomery. It’s really a very nice park, and, except for our late night over-voltage problems, it was a great stay.
We pulled out of the park right at noon and headed about a mile down the road to fuel up at a nice station that I haven’t seen before called ENTEC. Diesel was $2.78 and I put in about 105 gallons. Hopefully that’ll take us all the way to Elkhart, IN, about 915 miles away. Since we’ll be staying there for a month, we’ll fill up right before we park, because sitting with a partially full tank is an open invitation for condensation and algae growth in your fuel. Which can be a real problem with diesel engines.
Leaving the station we hitched up the toad on the wide shoulder in front of the station and set out on our short 100 mile run to the Cherokee Beach Campground in Helena, AL, just south of Birmingham. We got a site back in the trees but I was still able to get a satellite sight, so it’s all good.
After setting up and resting up, we left at 5 pm heading up to Trussville, about 30 miles away to catch up on old times with Bill and Carol Alverson.
The traffic getting from the park back to the Interstate was a lot heavier than when we came in. It took us over 20 minutes to make the 6 mile trip because of all the going-home traffic.
Bill and I worked together at the Alabama Educational Television Network here in Birmingham from July 1972 to December 1974. So we had a lot to catch up on.
We spent about an hour talking and being shown around their beautiful home. And in one of those strange coincidences, their home floorplan is almost identical to the home my mother used to own here in the Birmingham area. And it was about 20 miles from here. Weird!
About 7 we headed out to dinner at Jim and Nick’s BBQ, a nearby restaurant that had really good Alabama BBQ. And their HOT and SPICY BBQ sauce was GREAT!
Bill and Carol
Coming back to their home we talked for another half hour or so, until it was time to head back to the rig before Jan started nodding off.
We really enjoyed getting to know Carol. Although we had corresponded with Christmas cards and such for years, this was our first time to meet in person. She’s a really neat lady, and must have a lot of patience, since she’s put up with Bill all these years.
We made a date to get together next year on our way thru this area, and will certainly follow thru.
We got home about 10 pm and were in for the night.
Tomorrow we’re going to drive around Birmingham, looking up old memories and places.
More then…
Quote of the day:
An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out. – Will Rogers
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