Enjoying the day

Yesterday we met Jim and Judy Maddox in Eatonton for lunch. We helped them celebrate the first hour of being truly fulltimers

Left to right is Faye,Jim's sister,Judy,Jim,Nancy and I. Nancy and I had a good time,good food and great company. We are glad you made it to this day.
We left Sinclair Lake this afternoon heading north. We went through the town of Social Circle where I parked the motorhome at the Freshway Market.

 I unhooked the car so we could drive the streets and look at the old houses in town.

We didn't get very far driving as usual we took our good old easy time.
We are at the Winder,Georgia Walmart where we will park overnight.
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Laundromat day

A few days ago we went to Eatonton to the Brer Rabbit Museum. Sherry was there when she was very young,fifty years ago.

  This is old Brer Rabbit himself. I don't know if the young kids nowadays ever heard of him or not. Back in our young days all the kids read about Brer Rabbit and the briarpatch.

The magnolia trees are in full bloom and the scent of the blooms are in the air all around.
Yesterday I cleaned out most of the bays and vacuumed them out. There was a couple of bags of "stuff" that I threw in the dumpster that I had no use for.
Today is a wash the clothes day,so its off to Milledgeville to the laundromat.

Trimark lock ordered

I called several places for the door lock that is broken and that is an item that they have to special order. One parts guy told me the cost five years ago was around $150.00 and it would be more than that now. So I went online to Ebay and found one for $72.00 including shipping. I had it shipped to our daughter Sherry's,so it will be waiting on us when we get there. In the mean time I got the broken one working where it can be locked using the dead bolt. The Dometic refrigerator is still working,matter of fact it is working the best that it has ever been. The refrigerator is on electric now so I'll have to wait and see how it does on propane.
I've tried posting photos but the Verizon WiFi is so weak today that it would not post a photo.

I did get a signal strong enough later in the day to post a photo.
This is our site # 4 at the National Forest Sinclair Lake campground.

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More troubles

We had a nice drive up to Lake Sinclair campground. On the way up we stopped at a Walmart for a few groceries and to eat a bite of lunch. I was wondering if we would find an electric site at the campground which we did,site #4 was open. I backed into the site,leveled up extended the slides. Then thats when it happened. I started to go out the door pulled the latch to open the door and it wouldn't open. As this happened one time before I knew the lock was broken. I'm just glad I have a drivers door to get outside. I did manage to get the door open. Today I'm on my way to find a new entrance door latch.
The Verizon WiFi is come and go here with most of the time we cannot get on the web.
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Time to move

After a good visit it is time to be on the road again,going north. We've had our usual good time and our good belly laughs. As always it is a joy here with Nick and the family. Nick and I went again to the Warner Robins hardware store for some of the bargains that they have. Nick has a high powered lawn blower that he used to blow ou the rest of the debis from behind the frig and it is working like new once again. Thanks Nick.

This is one of the many place that the family have for us to park our motorhome in.  If it wasn't for the parking places that they have for us we may not be able to travel around like we do. Thanks Family.

While checking around under the hood of the motorhome I found this nest with eggs in it on top of a headlight. I guess there is a bird in Florida looking for her nest. We will see what today has instore for us.
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Warner Robins,Georgia

We took our time getting ready yesterday as we only had about 120 miles to go to my brothers house. I took route 41 north out of the park.

41 is a nice two lane road and a good break from the interstate road. Sometimes on these roads you will see things and most of the time you have the beautiful scenery to look at. Of course Nancy doesn't like for me to take my eyes off the road.

I do get a look every once in a while though.

Open fields,two lane road,rail road tracks and another field with something planted and growing. You got to admit it looks better than the interstate road. But I know you are in a hurry to get some place.

Ok then here is your road with the billboards and big trucks blowing by. I still like the open fields.  I sometime do have to get on the interstate and time to get off route 41 because it was going to far east of my destination.
We did make it safe and sound to Warner Robins where my brother lives. As usual in a couple of hours we was eating. They asked us if we would like pizza and we said sure. Hey wednesday is usually our pizza day anyway so that worked out just fine


 

Sad Goodbyes

Our time is up here around Valdosta. We have had a wonderful visit with Jeremy and the family. It was good again to see the great grand kids with all the energy and smiles. We had supper with them yesterday and as I said Jeremy grilled way more than enough the day before,so we had leftovers which was really good. Then we had the sad part of every visit saying our goodbyes and letting the tears flow a bit. But there will be more happy times visiting again.
Today we will be going up to Warner Robins to vist for a while with my brother Nick and wife Joan. It always good to see them. The only problem is that they want to feed us to much. I think I can handle that problem though. Nancy and I always gain weight when we visit them.

I'm going to take route 41 north for a few miles before I get on I-75. Maybe we will see more wildflowers beside the road or some other interesting things. Come aboard and lets see.
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Good time

 

The on going refrigerator problems are over. I took a mirror and looked up through the coils and sure enough they were blocked off. The mice had took the insulation and put it on top of the coils. this was causing the thermocouple to trip from getting too hot. After much work at using a wire to reach up and pulling the insulation down piece by piece the frig is at 36°.
After spending friday night at Walmart and saturday night at the Lowes parking lot we got a site at Cain's Creekside RV Park in Hihara. The park is 12 miles north of Valdosta and a mile or two off I-75.
 

This is our site which is beside a small lake. This is a Passport America park so if you are a member it is half price. The park is nice and been open a year. They are still working and developing it.

Wild flowers around the lake.

 

Yesterday we were over to Allison and Jeremy's house for dinner. Jeremy was at the grill and I think he got carried away with the burgers and sausage because there was more than half of it left over. The food was delicious and the visit with all was the best. We will be leaving here tomorrow.
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Things forgotten

Well we did get on the road thursday. We had a late start,I'm talking real late. I took the motorhome over to the Wa Wa gas store to fill up. Sherry and Nancy followed me in the car so we could hook up the car in the Home Depot lot which has more room to do that. Sherry and I hooked up the car and went inside,where Nancy said "I gorgot to pack our medicine". So here we go with the motorhome car in tow back into the park. So we left around 4:00pm. I drove to Live Oak,because I was wanting to stop and eat at Ken's BBQ. We ate there last year and it was very good.
The refrigerator which was working went on the blink. It works on electric and not gas. I think it may not have air circulating on the coils. We have found out in the past couple of days there are some thing that we forgot to put in the motorhome. Oh well we'll just have to do without them.
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Its that time

Well after weeks of preparation today is the day we start our summer travels. I thought we had everything about the motorhome ready to go.
So tuesday evening I said I would start up the refrigerator since it takes time to cool down. I started to turn it on and there was no light on the eyebrow board,so now what?  I took the board loose and I say to myself "oh no",which is never good. The wiring pulled out with just about a six in stub following it,those darn mice had chewed up the wiring. When I found out the the mice had been in the back and chewed the wiring a few months ago I told Nancy that didn't worry me,it was what I couldn't see what bothered me. I didn't check anywhere for a new wiring harness.  I used some phone line wiring of the same amps and spliced it in and will get a new one when we are close to an rv store along the way. In short the refrigerator is now going and cooling. So some time today we will be on our way.
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More cleaning

Have you ever said we have plenty of time,so we will just take our time?  Well thats where we are now. All that time we had to take and get ready for the road is only a few days away. Of course we can had a few extra days if we need to do so.
Saturday I deep cleaned the carpet in the motorhome and boy did it need to be cleaned. Nancy and Sherry have been busy cleaning the cabinets inside and outside,doing the dishes we keep in the motorhome. Today we will be doing the same.
Today I go to the Dermatologist to get the stitches taken out of my forehead.
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