Wednesday September 28th 2016

I’m back at The Woods RV Park and Campground on the south side of Montgomery AL. This is the same park I
stayed in last Thursday night on my way north to Red Bay. It was 50 degrees when I got up this morning and 90 when I stopped here in Montgomery.

I got up before 7am as the campground came alive with people getting ready for service. It’s a good thing I did because the service techs were at my door shortly after seven with my shade ready to be installed. Five minutes later the service was complete. I was free to leave Red Bay Alabama. I packed up and checked out by 9:30, but I spent another half an hour at the local gas station filling the fuel tank. It was an old and very slow pump.

Site 403 at The Woods RV Park and Campground.

As I drove south on the same set of roads I arrived on last week, I had a chance to consider my travel pattern. Since I left New England in July, I’ve been traveling in just get there mode. Long travel days with little time spent to enjoy the areas I’ve been traveling through. This not what I want to be doing. It has made sense up until now, but I don’t have any hard deadlines at the moment.

This evening I’ve been researching better stops along the way back to Florida. If I had this thought last night, I’d have stayed in northern Alabama and checked out the Mussel Shoals area and the Rocket Center in Huntsville. Now that I’m in the southern part of the state, I’m considering stopping in the Mobile AL or Pensacola FL area for the weekend. I’ll make some calls in the morning to see if I can find get a reservation somewhere in the area.

Another consideration is the track of tropical storm Matthew. The current track has it turning north toward the US mainland toward the end of the weekend. I don’t want to sit out another hurricane. Whichever way it decides to head, I plan to head in the opposite direction.

My goal is to slow down to 200 miles or less travel each day with at least two nights stay at each stop. Over the next few weeks, I need to do more domicile related business in the Jacksonville area. I also want to visit the Food & Wine festival at Disney World. My next reservation is in the middle of November in the Fort Meyers area so I have plenty of time and options.