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In the last week we've left our "second" home in Kingsland, GA. The Country Oaks campground is a great place. We've met some very nice people, now friends, and our kids and Sana (Savannah our granddaughter) live around the corner. We managed to help the economy in Jacksonville by buying a new RV. Our home is now a 2010 Prairie Schooner by Gulfstream. We're still getting it settled, tweaked and little things fixed. Although it's longer, it's smaller inside with less storage, especially in the basement for Bill's stuff. I guess we have an extra closet or two that take up space and makes it feel smaller. We've even added a truck box to the bed of the truck and still need more. Yes, we given plenty of things away, recycled some and pared down. But little by little it's starting to feel like home.
So, we've traveled west, up to Tifton, GA for the first night, got off the freeway and took the smaller US roads. The scenery is much better and it's very surprising what you see and find and the towns you go through. Quite often the road is better too. Then through the eerie mounds of kudzu to just outside of Selma, AL. If you get a chance to camp at Corp of Engineer parks, you won't be disappointed. They are generally large, flat, open sites and a good price. Leaving the Selma area we drove to Cuba, back on the freeway but didn't take the Chunky exit, and on to Vicksburg, MS and camping at a casino. Buffets are no longer cheap meals and we can't eat our moneys worth any more. The following day was dark and stormy as we passed through Transylvania, La. and a little town that had a door museum, of all things. Cruising along the west side of the Mississippi, we followed the levy that keeps this area "dry". The levy is very large and the road is many feet below river level. And they have had plenty of rain so the fields are swamped. The last leg was up to Little Rock on probably one of the worst roads we been on in a long time, US 65 and I530. 'Bout rattled and jarred us to death. This literally is a "shakedown" cruise for the "schooner". So now we're in Little Rock for about 2 weeks before making our way north to see St. Louis, visit towns for genealogy research and family, then back to the west. Yah! Yes, we're in Little Rock on purpose! Bills sister and her family live here and she has enough "honey do" projects to satisfy his homeowner and repair urges.
Till the next blog, happy travels.
