March 22, 2015     Leaving the area is bittersweet.  We are ready to start heading North,  but the area is so nice we could easily spend a few more days here.    Mother Nature  makes it easier for us to leave.  It is foggy and just started raining.   As we drive out we have none of the gorgeous views we had coming in.  She’s challenging us to come back another time 🙂

Here comes the beautiful two mile bridge.

RVing is a wonderful way to travel.   You can see so much (when it’s not foggy) and be very flexible,  but it’s not for everyone.  To do the kind of RVing that we do you have to like driving and be a confident and skilled driver.  I have taken the RV on trips with the kids, no David.   I can drive it,  but don’t enjoy it.  I drive it like it’s a tractor trailer truck.   Three hours of driving and I’m exhausted.  David drives it like it’s a Mini Cooper.   This morning I had a craving for an Egg McMuffin.  David pulled the RV right in and around the McDonalds.  He would have gone through the drive through,  if the overhang was higher.   I would have pulled into a rest area off the highway and made my own.

The kind of RVing we do can also be a LOT of work.  If you only go to RV  type places with full hook ups,  it’s a piece of cake.   If you “rough it”  it means more work and conservation.   Using a dump station STINKS!   I don’t like to “dump”, but I  know how to when I have to.   David is really good at it,  quick and accurate,  so it’s best when he does  it 🙂

RVing also lets you being lots of “stuff’ with you, so you can do more without having to rent.  It also means having to load,  unload and clean all this “stuff”.    It helps that David has the energy of a thirty year old.  I am not tall enough or strong enough to lift the bicycles on or off the rack.  The inflatable kayak is compact,  but very heavy.  Even hooking up and unhooking the car takes muscle.

A sign that it was time to head home was when David did not want to go kayaking at Fort Pickens.  Not that he didn’t want to kayak, he’s just tired of lugging, unpacking, inflating, deflating,  packing and lugging the inflatable.  I carry the paddles and put them together, they break down into four pieces 🙂

When we get home he is going to try and figure out how to take our hard kayaks with us.  It’s this or buy another inflatable.  E T has gotten so big, the three of us no longer fit in one kayak.  She loves kayaking, not swimming. She likes to sit in the kayak and be paddled around.  Reminds me of another daughter I have 🙂

We just stopped at a Shell gas station in Alabama (exit 93 off I 65) $2.09 a gallon.  We took 60 gallons.

E T is an awesome RVer.  Today we drove 9 1/2 hours and drove 417 miles today.

We stopped for the night at the Georgia RV Park in Commerce,  Georgia.  Ironically,  it’s where NHRA has it’s National Event every year at the Atlanta Dragway in Commerce.  It is on our list of drag races to attend.   The campground is not the “cats meow” of campgrounds,  but it’s 1 1/2 miles off the highway and full hookup (50 amp) for $25 a night.   It’s still raining.  I hope it stops by  tomorrow afternoon.  My hope is to stop in Damascus,  Virgina  and ride my favorite biking trail, The Virginia Creeper Trail.   Another good day of traveling 🙂