February 13, 2016
DAY 3
8:20 a.m.  On the road AGAIN.  We were up early,  but we were enjoying our first stopover of the year, in our “home away from home”  we didn’t rush.  We enjoyed a nice home cooked blueberry pancake breakfast before hitting the road 🙂

It’s a beautiful day for traveling, blues sky, not much wind, but still cool, 30 degrees.   I 85 through N.C., S.C. And GA is not “the cats meow” as far as scenery goes.  This is not just a couple of miles, it’s hundreds of miles.

Today was most definitely all about the miles.  The most eventful site we saw was an SUV towing TWO cars. 

 We stop at the Alabama Welcome Center in hopes of finding someplace nice to stop for the night.  The Welcome Center “Greeter” was awesome.  She highly recommended the Sherling Lake Park Campground in Greenville, AL (I 65 Exit 130).  She said “You’ll want to stay there, it’s so pretty!”  Full hook-up for $28 a night, cash or check only, no credit card, 4 miles off the highway.  So, Greenville here we come again.
We changed Time Zones on the Alabama border.  It’s now 1:30 p.m. And  52 degrees,  It’s  getting warmer.  We stop at the I 65 Exit 158 Flying J  $1.44 gal  57.8 gal  $88.75.  David was a little disappointed, he was hoping the price would go down enough that the gas stations were paying him to fill up.
Here’s the story of the day.  We are checking IN at Sherling Lake Park Campground.  The host, speaking with a serious southern drawl says,  “I should tell ya, we got a fir.”  Oh Boy, I think “fair, I like fairs”.  He says  “It’s those gat dern gophers!” I think, what the heck is a  Gopher Fair!”  He says “They smoke them see-garettes an don stomp-um out good.  Happens ah the time.”  We call-um BUTTHeads!”  Meanwhile, as he’s talking, a fire truck, a police car and a bulldozer with sand drive by.  “Don  worry”, he says “It ain’t the campground on fir, it’s the goph course in the park.”  The campground and golf course are in the park.  So we just checked in to a Park that was on fire.  The adventures continue!