It looked like they announced an evacuation this weekend and forgot to tell us. The campground thinned out a lot and there were many spaces available. That is, until this afternoon when a whole new crowd joined us for service. Hopefully, they will only have minor problems and clear out fast.
I was plotting our route to Charlotte, NC from here and it directed us to take Rt 24 East out of Red Bay. The only problem with that is Rt 24 is blocked to all but local traffic. I checked into alternate routes and we tried one today and ruled it out quickly. We would have been on a narrow country road barely wide enough for the motorhome. We came back a different way and found the new Rt 24 East of Red Bay. They are working on the road and it's down to two lanes with a lot of construction taking place. I'm still not sure we can take it far enough east to get on another highway.
We took a little ride west of town and ran across this nice home on the highway. We were too close to the home to get a wide angle shot of the front yard, but it was full of statues and nic nacs. The picture below only captures about 1/4 of what was in the front yard.
A little farther down the road we ran across a huge Tiffin Motor home facility in Belmont, MS industrial park. They had many new motor homes sitting on the lot and they all looked shiny and beautiful. I stopped at the guard house to ask the attendant about the buildings and he said it was where they sanded, painted and polished the new motor homes before delivery. We saw an especially nice 43ft Allegro Bus that was begging us to buy it, but we had to decline.
The guard house was new but designed to look like an old time gas station with old pumps in front of it. Gas was 17 cents a gallon on the pump and I tried to buy $2.00 worth, but it wasn't to be. The factory has another guard house there that mimics the one here.
We capped off the day with another trip to the smooth ice cream place in Belmont, MS. A woman had pulled into the entrance way to the parking lot at an angle and was just sitting there until Gerry got out to get two cones. Then the lady moved very quickly to get ahead of Gerry, but left her van sitting there blocking the entrance. I pulled around to another entrance and parked only to have an older man pull in parallel behind me. I don't understand why they didn't just park in the proper spaces, but they didn't. I thought I had seen everything, but I was wrong.
On the way home we saw a man washing his horse in the car wash and was using the jet spray on the horse. It must have felt good to the horse as he was just standing there. Now I have seen everything. .... Until the next time, that is.
Gerry was checking where the nearest Catholic Church was and the closest she found was 30 miles away. This really is the Baptist Bible belt down here.
One of the blogs I follow is: Our RV Adventure Today his blog jogged my memory of our first new car which was a Red 1960 PV 544 Volvo. It looked like a 1946 Ford and probably was modeled after one. We paid $1620 for the car and financed it for 3 years. Hey, money was tight in 1961. We didn't have the car for more than a month when our young daughters decided it would be fun to poke pencil holes in the naugahyde seat covers in the back seat. Ouch, that hurt.
The car got 36+ MPG on the road and was fun to drive, however I was stuck with a 1952 Chevy while Gerry drove the Volvo. We kept the car for a few years and traded it in on a Mercury Meteor which was a big mistake. Live and learn.
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That was our day, how was yours?
Hopefully you will be out of there by the end of the week. Sounds like you're keeping yourself busy and finding some interesting sights along the way. Would love to have see the horse in the car wash.
ReplyDeleteYour day was way more exciting! Worked on the POD, sat on the front porch, sat on the sofa, watched the rain, rented a movie (Guilt Trip), sat on the front porch again, ate oven fried chicken, 2 hours of 60 minutes...bed!
ReplyDeleteOf course I feel great this morning!
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