Leaving Florida

 7-24-2021 - Saturday

After Joe finished his work on the hose last night, and he got in bed, he remembered that there was a spring he needed to put back on, so that was his first job this morning.  Of course, the spring disappeared overnight.  He looked through all his toolboxes, all over the floor, under the seats.  So off we went to Lowes.  He got that put back on, but it got us off to a late start.  By the time we got ready to head out, it was 11:10 (check-out time was 11:30).  But the RV seems to be running, and idling, fine, so his work was a success.

The temperature was a little cooler this morning, after last night's shower, but the humidity was high.  I'm really tired of my glasses fogging up every time I get out of the Jeep.  We crossed the state line into Alabama about 11:50, headed to Dothan, Alabama -- where the National Peanut Festival is held every year.  We passed the grounds for that.  Dothan was much larger than Joe remembered from his trucking days.

We fueled on the outskirts of Montgomery ($2.793), and headed to Talladega, where we are going to camp tonight.  We had a few rain showers again today, mostly in the last hour or so of driving and arrived at our campground at 4:40.  We came upon a gas station that had several cars parked right along the road, and wondered what was going on.  Then we saw this guy carrying a snake -- about 4 ft. long -- across the parking lot  We didn't stop. Our camp site is a bit unlevel, but Joe made it work, and then we headed into Talladega for dinner.  

Then we drove up to Talladega Superspeedway, which is actually just outside of Lincoln, not Talladega.  The gates were all closed, but we could see the stands, and the curve of the track.

The stands have lots of color, looks like they are full of fans.  We couldn't tell if they are cardboard cutouts or just painted that way.  There is a Hall of Fame here too, but that too was behind closed gates.

We drove the sideroad past some of the parking/camping lots, and along the backside of the track.  Then down some backroads.  We did come upon two deer.  And ended up back almost where we started.  So we drove past our campground again, and into Lincoln, which wasn't much of a town, unless we missed the town.  I think we head out this way tomorrow.  

Our drive today was 228 miles, slow miles, and our late start kept us on the road past our normal time.  We hope to get to bed early tonight and sleep better than we did last night.  The plan tomorrow is to arrive at Mike and Nancy's in Manchester, Tennessee and spend a few days with them.  We are finally moving north!