Thursday, April 21, 2011

Time To Go…April 20, 2011

Each day more of our winter folks were leaving Coastal Haven…

Jeannie and Vern…they are just going to the beach in Florida for a week with their family.  Later they will be heading for Vermont.008

Joan, Ron and Kyra on their way to Wisconsin.003

Kyra says “What’s the holdup…let’s go!”

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Rosanne, Bill and Oliver are on their way to New Jersey and then Wisconsin.013

This is our new space…we will be here next winter also.  We are now much closer to the clubhouse and we really like it.018

We stayed in Fairhope long enough to see our friends Alex and Don who live in Brazil.  They are in the states for a few weeks…we were so glad to be able to spend a few hours with them.  We met them in 2005 when we were all working at Adventureland in Iowa.

We all had lunch  at Big Daddy’s along with Pat Gloyd who is their host while in the area.  Pat also worked at Aland with all of us.

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The next morning we pulled out of our winter home in Fairhope, AL bright and early.  We made a 2 hour stop in Daphne because Bob wanted to have the motorhome tires inflated with nitrogen.  Then we were headed north to Red Bay, AL via Mississippi because we like Hwy. 45…up to Tupelo, MS and then a few miles east into Red Bay.  We have a couple of things that need attention on our Tiffin motorhome and Tiffin is located in Red Bay.

Hey Mark…my location on the map is now correct!

We had to go into a site with water and electric only as the campground was full when we arrived but this morning we were able to move into a full hookup site.  As we don’t have an appointment we have no idea how long it will take us to get into a service bay.  We only have a couple of items to be done so we are hoping to get into a 3 hour express bay real soon.

We had really heavy rain last night but we were so tired we slept through most of it.  More rain predicted for today.

Moving on.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Winding Down April 17, 2011

As the weather continues to warm up, more and more of our winter group are starting to pull up stakes and heading for their summer destinations.

Linda and John are heading back to Chester, Illinois.  They take wonderful care of all us in the park…they keep things running smoothly and Linda organizes so many social activities.  Thanks Linda and John for your great work!

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Here Linda is saying goodbye to Oliver Curran.  He is going to miss his morning treats that he gets from Linda.006

Jim and Phyllis Gudgalis…fulltime RVers.  On their way to Florida/Georgia and then Illinois.023

Then it was Isobel and and Aaron Work heading out to Ohio.  What a charming couple…they celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary while here.025  Our daily group at happy hour is very tiny now and getting smaller.  We have two more couples leaving tomorrow, one on Tuesday and then Bob and I will be leaving on Wednesday.  We will turn out the lights when we leave.

We had dinner a week or so ago with 2 couples we met while in Cody, Wyoming last summer.  Byron and Glynda live in the area and Dale and Sharon were going from Florida to Texas.  001

Good times and good friends will be missed…moving on.