Life's a BEACH! We're here in Florida now, but to catch up on where we left off... we finished up in Red Bay, Alabama where we toured the manufacturing plant for Tiffin Motorhomes (very impressive) and had a great experience getting a lot of rather minor service work done. My brother Fred told me it's as if a motorhome has to withstand an earthquake on a regular basis. How true! Lot's can rattle & loosen but we're rolling along again like new.
After Red Bay, we followed our RV buddies Joe & Carolyn to Gadsden, Alabama. Gadsden is near Joe's old stompin' grounds so he showed us the ropes. Who knew Alabama was so beautiful! We stayed at River Country Campground and were parked just a few feet from the river pictured below. What a pleasant stay!
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| The view out of our front window |
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| How romantic! |
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| Loved the weeping willows |
After staying 3 nights further south in Greenville, Alabama we headed to our holiday destination...
Destin, Florida. We'll be here through Dec 15. Our friend Robert Martin told us about Destin and another friend Buck Wenger told us about this RV park in particular (Camp Gulf). What a great place!!! Destin is just an hour east of Pensacola in the panhandle of Florida so the shore faces the Gulf of Mexico to the south. I hear Destin has the world's whitest sand beaches. The water is so crystal clear and surprisingly warm. They refer to the area as the Emerald Coast. The waves are fairly calm and gently lap the shore... and the sand is so very soft, it feels like cake mix just out of the box!
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We're feeling very blessed with our stress-free life. We enjoyed a terrific Thanksgiving dinner with the other RV residents here (well over 100 of them), many of whom return year after year for the holidays. The RV park is not as crowded as we expected and the weather is GREAT. It's been in the 70's this week and feels like endless summer. We could get used to this! We definitely plan to make this a regular stop in our travels. It feels so good to sit still for awhile rather than being constantly on the move. We'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story...
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| Our home in paradise (for a month anyway) - this picture taken just a few yards from our RV spot |
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| Having lunch at a nearby seafood restaurant - the Whales' Tail |
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| The 1st couple days were cloudy, but the sunshine soon returned |
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| The sand is sugar-white and soooo soft! |
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| We're really close to the shore... here's the view from our bus! |
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| Heavenly skies |
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Parasailing (no... not us, we're happy to watch
from below) |
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| The water's warm!! After the first day, we ditched the sweaters & broke out the tank tops, shorts & flip flops. |
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| A slice of heaven... walking along the shore |
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The water is amazing - crystal clear & fades emerald to azure
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| There's an air base nearby - lots of aircraft |
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| I think we could stay here FOREVER |
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| You HAVE to go to the beach every evening to watch the sun sink into the ocean. Ahhhhh..... life is good. |
Careful, you're not into this a year yet, there is more to see. :)
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