Last full day here! We’re going to the exercise class at 9a but first a gator check walk. We’ve walked by this so often, finally occurred to me to take a photo#Poinsettia growing in a tree.
We’ve never been this early so maybe??
Nada!
Back to exercise class, then breakfast, then some work, then get showered up and off we go for another check. It’s easy getting our 10k/steps with all this gator chasing. This cutie is checking us out on our way by
Don’t really have to say but nothing again.
In the hot tub we meet a guy who took one trip to the pond and spotted one of the smaller ones.
Open the blinds to see these birdsGoogle teaches me they are Great Egret.
During breakfast we receive a call from an unknown 800 number, we continue eating. We’re surprised they leave a message. It’s RBC leaving an automated message, letting us know the only US credit card we have with us has been compromised, the account may be frozen. The message lists the last few charges, they aren’t ours. The charge that caused the alert was a Walmart in California for $137.11. There were also 2 charges of .01 each and a declined movie theatre charge. We’re happy they caught it but it’s a mystery how they did. We shop at Walmart and have been travelling so why did that seem like a fraud call. I would have thought the 2 one cent charges would have been more suspicious. Allan calls, he wastes at least 2 hours – each call after the recording recaps the charges, says you must wait for the next rep, minutes later – the dreaded recording “we are too busy now, try your call again later”. They hang up.
They did say, may be frozen so we go to the grocery store and purchase a few items. Yes it’s declined. Back in Bailey, Allan gets a
Call the number on the back of the card!! He gets a live person within minutes. They will send a replacement card to our campground so we should have a new card by Monday! Fingers crossed!
Next! Today’s gator check
Still nothing
Try again in the afternoon, still nothing How can he be such a good hider?
We head out for our walk to find alligators, again! They say, where there is water there is an alligator. Allan keeps hoping we’ll see the resident alligator, it’s supposed to be 6 feet long. You’d think it would be easy to spot.
The ground shuffleboard area is empty so we decide to give it a go. We don’t know the rules, scoring or which side of the disc is up. We each attempt using the 4 discs – woohoo I get +10; Allan -10. We decide we should read the rules.
A18 is a nicer site in that we look out at grass not the very close neighbour’s stinky slinky.To make this minor, move over change, we still must put everything away, close the slides and retract the jacks. We carry the Traeger, stand and chairs. We drive round the block and into our new spot. Now have to unpack the dishes, open the slides, drop the jacks. It took about 50 minutes.
Allan is determined to see an alligator, so off on our daily walk to the pond’s lookout.
None here
Nor here
Alligator fun facts that will amaze. Allan has decided if he has to come back as an animal he’d choose an alligator.
Lesson of the day! Our neighbours arrive with their “toad”. A vehicle that is “towed” behind an RV. He detaches the toad and walks to the front of his RV not noticing the toad starts rolling back. We weren’t at our site so missed it but we’re told it started off very slowly then gained momentum and crashed into a pick up parked across the street. Issue? When you tow the vehicle must be in neutral, he forgot to put it in park. His wife was none to impressed as it is her vehicle and it’s still new.
This is a cute park; no pool or hot tub but paddle boats, corn hole and other games. The major attraction however is, Radical Racing! What’s that?? You drive Monster Truck!
Start the day with a tour of the park. This is the smallest camp we’ve stayed at with 24 sites. Getting our 10k daily steps will be challenging.
Vonda, the park’s fabulous owner hooks us up with free fire wood and a mat for outside Bailey. Some of the other campers. The resident horses
Vonda stayed, in her camper,waiting out the storm for 8 hours. Must have been, beyond terrifying.
The neighbour loads his vehicle on this contraption and hauls his 5th wheel. Would love to see them on the roadMore bunnies
This is the Monster Truck. Vonda tells us we should have a chat with site 13 as they have driven already.
Site 13, aka Joan walks by our site and fills us in on what to expect.
This, barely there lane is named!
Viewing Bailey from above lane
Hangman tree. Now on the real quest! Remember no wine at Walmart. Google spirit stores, one each way on the highway but the walk is 45m and looks scary with no sidewalks. Maybe the Love’s on the corner, across the street carries wine. First we encounter side of the road boiled peanuts. Will pick some up on our way back.
At Love’s, “no” they do not have wine only beer. The associate says there is a spirit store 6 minutes down the road – 6 minutes walking? Oh no, driving. We say we are walking, she says “I’ll get my GM, Bob, to drive you.” “No, we’re good” She gets Bob, “sure” he says, we say again “no it’s OK we don’t want to impose” “No imposition, I won’t mind getting away for a bit” Off we go in his shining Jetta, aka wine mobile!!6 minutes down the road is the spirit store but…. it opens at 11a and it’s only 1045a. We say it’s OK let’s go back – no there is another spirit store Bob knows will be opened. Off we go, this one was another 30m out. We feel bad for putting Bob through this but it was interesting learning about his Love’s employment. Such a good family owned company to work for! We get there, make our purchase which includes this big guyBob even drives us back to Bailey. Gotta love small town people hospitality!
We have dinner
Then a fire 🙂Tomorrow will be road side, boiled peanut run and better yet Monster Truck drive day!
First state Louisiana, second state Mississippi, And then!! More water Alabama (missed welcome sign) This is #LoveDowntownMobile
Oh no! Coming up too quickly a tunnel, the George C. Wallace Tunnel.Allan dislikes tunnels as much or more, than I dislike narrow bridges. Allan “Are we too high?” My thought is – if it’s not marked we fit. A tractor trailer races to the tunnel. We know we are good. Turns out, no concern required!
We made it through! Next up FloridaThe Welcome Center is huge! I thought one of us took a photo of the building but apparently not.
Allan gets to update our travel map as it’s Bailey’s first time in Florida.Some excitement on the road. Not captured in the photo but the guy is in handcuffs and there is a sniffer dog at the back of the “suspect” vehicle.
Starts raining at 118p.
Allan’s preferred cruising speed is 65mph – best fuel economy. It is, very strange, when an escorted wide load passes us.
We stop in Chipley’sWalmart to stock up. on produce and wine. We take note of the “No Over Nite Parking” sign. This is the worst Walmart we’ve ever been in. Little produce, many empty bins, no wine, they did have beer which we didn’t need. Plus side – we got a rotisserie chicken for dinner.
Back peddle a bit these are the actual boiled peanuts
But first must share the story of our across the road neighbours. The gentleman comes over to say “Hi Mary-Ann” Me; deer in the headlights!! Him sensing this, “You don’d remember me”? Oh no who is this?? Fortunately he didn’t string us along much longer and revealed he saw our Follow Us lettering viewed our blog and therefore though it a perfect opportunity mess with us. Which he did perfectly!
I was so frazzled I didn’t catch his name. Meet again, this jokster! says his name is Whitney(turns out Whitney Houston clouded my name judgement) his wife’s name is Michael or you know, Mike. I never heard of a female Michael, him messing with me again? Next day, a TV show I’m watching, one of the female contestant’s name is Mike. Now I’m more confused, Whitney are you messing with me AGAIN 🙂
Nada!
