One of our favorite campgrounds is Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, AL. This despite the fact that we have only managed to stay there once in the 3 times we have been camping in the Gulf Shores area.
The first time we went into the park on our bicycles and saw lots of empty spaces. Now this park has almost 500 sites (I think the actual number is 496). We must have seen at least 100 empty sites. So, we stopped at the office to see if we can camp there the next few days. “Sorry, we are full up until April 1st” we are told. “How can that be?” we ask. “We see all of these empty spaces!” Turns out they are all rented; the renters just don’t happen to be there at the time. Some of them have gone home already but the rental runs through March; some of them are off traveling someplace else for a few days. Don’t you think it would be nice of those who have gone home to say, “Hey, you can rent out our site. We’re not coming back.” Or something to that effect. It’s a wonderful park but it’s darn hard to get into!
Signs along the way:
- ‘We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.’
- ‘She has a strong will but a weak won’t.’
- ‘Don’t trust reality, it’s only a strong hunch.’
- ‘Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow’
- ‘Everything in moderation, including moderation’
- ‘He who hesitates is probably right’
Our RV is built on the Sprinter, a Mercedes Benz engine and truck. Friends of ours tell of going into the Mercedes Benz dealer in south Florida to have some repairs done. But let Tom tell it: “Marci and I drive in from the campground in, guess what, our campground clothes. I’ve got on my shorts and T shirt and she’s just as dressed up. As we sit in the waiting room, having our coffee and waiting for them to let us know how long it will take, we are getting all these sideways looks from the men in their golfing finest and their trophy wives in their cute, short tennis outfits, perfectly coifed hair and beautifully manicured nails. We are told to come back the following day and the repairs will be done then. Well, Marci insists on getting her hair done, getting a manicure, and putting on her finest before returning to the Mercedes dealer! I had to wear my dress clothes, too!”
When we travel in the RV we save the indoor ‘chores’ for those rainy days. Well, today is a rain off and on day. We think it has stopped for the day, we get ready to go, we get about 10 feet from the RV, and it starts dripping again. Back home we go. After another half hour or so, the cycle repeats itself. It would be so much better if it would just go ahead and pour and get it over with. Or have a light rain and we would figure that we were inside for the day and could settle down. But this impending sunshine can drive one crazy!
