How About Them Bulldogs!!!

Well it's April 5th, the day for our departure from Emerald Beach. Louise stopped by to say goodbye as well as Linda & Ron. They will be at Emerald Beach until May 1st. All of the staff gave us a hug...Marge & Wayne, Providence and Ron. So off we drove at 10 a.m. for a rather short first day (I like to get into it gradually). We're only going to Hope Hull, AL and the Montgomery South RV Park.

The trip was not without incident. We were about 30 miles from our exit when a car slowed next to us. A woman was motioning and pointing down toward the road (not a good sign). Sure enough, we blew a tire on our trailer. We were only a mile from the Greenville exit. We got off and limped to a nearby Wal Mart. I examined the tire and found it gone! We were riding on the rim. What happened next was fortuitous. There was a tow truck in the lot working on a truck tire that looked similar to ours, in other words shredded. We asked the guy if he knew whether Wal Mart sold trailer tires. He didn't know but said he would put on our spare if we could wait a few minutes. We did and he did. In ten minutes we had a tire. However, we now needed a spare. We got directions to a tire store and after getting lost and cruising around downtown Greenville we finally found it. They had a tire and rim. For a mere $166 we were on our way. We lost only an hour or so and eventually arrived at the campground at 3:30.

Speaking of this campground...someone at Emerald Beach recommended this place. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The pull-thrus are stone and not very level, not even close. They do have a very nice shower. It's co-ed and there is only the one shower! The woman in the office was nice, but knew nothing about much of anything. We asked if they had cable. She said (honestly) "I don't know much about cable!" Turns out they only have satellite which you have to pay for. No cable. She called the guy who owns this cow pasture and he said he wouldn't recommend satellite if we were only going to be here for one nite. We put up the antenna, scanned, and came up with only 6 channels. Now that might sound ok, but the ONLY network you can get is CBS. That was the only 'saving grace'. If we couldn't get CBS I'm sure we would have left. Tonite is the NCAA championship between BUTLER and Duke! Bottom line, if your tempted to get off I65 at exit 158 and go to the Montgomery South RV Park, DON'T!

My Son, Dan and his wife and two girls spent two nites with us on the 2nd and 3rd. We had a very nice visit. All five of us watched Butler win the semifinal game by two points. We were going nuts. It made it even more fun since daughter-in-law, Jill is a Butler grad. What a game. I hope tonite is a little less scary. Go Bulldogs!

After suffering through a rather cold February and a March that wasn't a heck of a lot better, the last 4 days saw temps from 85 to 90. We went from furnace to AC overnite. All in all it was a wonderful winter thanks to all our old and new friends. With all our friends planning to return next year, I'm already starting to lay out next year's
itinerary.

Tomorrow we'll go to Texas T RV Park in TN. This is another recommendation, so I have my fingers crossed.

Till next time, "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom."

jim