Category Archives: Week 1

24 hours without the heating coming on, must be summer. We hung around the campsite for the morning then headed off to Orange Beach, about 15 miles away for their Mardi Gras parade. After some initial navigation error (due to … Continue reading →

Once we cleared the condensation off the windows this morning we noticed a distinct lack of grey stuff in the sky. As the morning progressed the sky turned a nice shade of blue and the sun emerged. We actually got … Continue reading →

This may be the best campsite to date, but the weather sucks. Heating is back on, with forecast lows tonight around 5C. This morning was pretty dreary and cool so we headed off shopping for a while. Came back to … Continue reading →

Cloudy, wet, windy 68F Today was a bit of a washout. We went into the local town, Foley to see the Mardi Gras Parade (seems to be a big thing here in the south). Found a parking spot quite easily … Continue reading →

Cloudy again with a few spots of rain and up to70F Today was our first day looking around the area, we went about 8 miles south to the Gulf Coast. The beaches were excellent, fine white sand stretching in excess … Continue reading →

Weather is a lot cooler, topping out at about 70F today. Pretty much settled in, one more antenna to go up and some tweaking of the stupid Virgin 3G connection for the internet, although the campground WiFi is pretty good … Continue reading →

Had to throw the state motto in there somehow. After hitting the sack an hour earlier than usual we managed to wake up 40 minutes later than usual! We headed out after breakfast, the temperatures were noticeably cooler than recent mornings, and … Continue reading →