Preps For Traveling

Coker, Alabama

Weather: low 54 degrees, high 87 degrees, mostly clear skies

Tomorrow is the day we are leaving for 7-10 days to visit family in Florida. We finished getting everything ready that we could, including dumping our holding tanks, cleaning up the truck, stowing stuff away inside the RV, and all the other little things we do to travel. In the morning, we'll finish getting ready and hook up the RV to the truck. We expect to leave here about 0900 hours, which should allow us to miss the rush hour traffic in Tuscaloosa.

Our route to Florida will be via US 82 to Montgomery, where we will take US 231 south to Dothan. At Dothan, we will turn to the east and go through Bainbridge, Georgia on our way to Tallahassee, where we will turn east on I-10. We'll stay on I-10 to just north of Lake City, where we will take I-75 to Ocala. Normally, we don't like to travel the interstate highways, but we have been down these roads so many times, we just want to pass on through. We expect the trip to take us two days, because we don't get in a hurry.

We did some calculations to see if it would be cheaper to just drive down without the RV and stay in a hotel. We found that we will save about about half the cost if we take the RV, versus staying in a hotel. And a bonus is that we will have our home with us, with all the pluses that go with that.

We're looking forward to getting away for a few days.

More later, be safe.

Today's Town - St. Augustine, Florida: The oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States

Not all who wander are lost.