November 21, 2015 Saturday
Today we pulled out of Topsail Hill Preserve State Park after 10 days.
While here, we learned how to unhook and
hook up the car to the hitch, add fresh water to our tank, empty the black and
grey tanks, and deal with some of the foibles of living in a motorhome.
It
seems like the time just flew by! We were still getting set up and needed to
buy some things, so we were out and about a lot. We were planning to stay long enough to wait
for a window to come in at Lazydays, but since it wasn’t in yet, we decided to
move on to San Antonio for Thanksgiving.
Of course I’ve never been there or met most of Shelly’s relatives, so I
agreed immediately! It’s about 750
miles, so we decided to make the trip in 4 days, or about 200 miles a day. I’m not helping with driving yet even though
I’ve been to driving school, and we stop a lot to rest, eat and take the dogs
out, so we decided not to push our travels.
So we pulled out around 10am this
morning and the first order of business is to get fuel. We found diesel not far away and managed to
top off the tank. The clerk at the
register asked if we are on vacation or live in it, so I proudly said we’ve
been living in it but admitted we’ve only been full time about a month. She informed me that she and her husband want
to do the same soon and have already sold their home. I wish them luck!
We headed on down Rt 98 until we
found a road to take us to I10 which would take us the rest of the way. But first we had to cross the Choctawhatchee Bay in Destin FL.
We went through Pensacola on the far western
edge of the Florida panhandle, then off into Alabama for awhile. But first we stopped at this rest stop.
Unfortunately we weren’t in Alabama long.....
and then we were in Mississippi.
I was
amazed at the lowlands – taking bridges over land, not water.
Well, some water. Too soft to build a road I suspect. Anyways, new landscape to me, so exciting to
finally see places I’ve never seen before and this is just the beginning! Stay tuned for Louisiana!
