Heading North . . .
Since we had a 375 mile to up to Athens, AL today, we were up at 6:30am and I was pulling out by 8 with Jan following in the truck. We were going to get diesel at the Wal-Mart on Fort Morgan Rd. and, although we’d filled up there before, we scoped it yesterday to be sure we could still get in and out.
But all the planning was for naught. When we pulled into the parking lot, the diesel pump area was blocked off with cones because workers were redoing the canopy over the station.
Crap!
So I headed on up to Foley to Dodge’s to fill up there. We gotten diesel here before, but they were 6 cents a gallon higher, so Wal-Mart was my first choice.
Once we were done we got hitched up and were back on the road a few minutes after 9am, right on schedule.
One thing that slows this trip down is that you’re pretty much just putt-putting along on mostly two lane, stop and go roads for the first 60 miles until you finally get on I-65. Then we just stay on 65 until we get off at the RV park exit 307 miles later.
We started running into some rain just south of Montgomery, most just light drizzle interspersed with only a few minutes of heavy rain.Then it was alternating rain and sunshine all the way to Athens.
We got in to the Northgate RV Travelpark about 3:45pm, said Hi to my cousin Wes, and then got parked and partially set up, just plugging in shore power for now. Since we’d only had a breakfast sandwich before we left, and then just peanut butter crackers along the way for lunch, we wanted to get an early dinner.
So about 4:15 we headed out to Catfish Cabin, our usual first night dinner spot here.
I guess it’s strange that we come 375 miles from the Gulf Coast and then have more seafood, but Catfish Cabin does it great, getting in fresh seafood daily. And they do a really great job with the basket of homemade hushpuppies they bring out when you sit down.
Jan usually gets the Cabin Platter with a whole catfish, shrimp, oysters, and a baked potato,
while get the Combination Platter with catfish fillets, oysters, fried shrimp, boiled shrimp and a stuffed crab.
Getting back to the rig, I finished hooking everything up and got the satellite set up and working.
Tomorrow we’ll start trying to get together with everyone. Looking forward to it.
Thought for the Day:
It’s called DIET because all the other 4-letter words were taken.
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