Up around 7:30, and as the motel had no breakfast (what do you expect for $40 a night) we headed over to Egg McMuffin land. Once the grease had lined our stomachs we headed South again, we left Virginia, crossed through Tennessee and the city of Chattanooga, and then clipped the corner of Georgia before entering Alabama. We stayed the night at Fort Payne. As we crossed into Alabama we also crossed from the Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone, thereby gaining an hour. Rather than wasting the hour that evening we figured it would have more use the next day so we didn’t reset our watches! As we unloaded the truck a bag fell out, unfortunately it was the one carrying the Satellite Receiver, more on the consequences of that later.
Next morning we were up at 630, thanks to the extra hour, this time we had breakfast at the motel, the difference between a $40 and a $50 motel!
We still had some snow in the back of the truck as I found out when Lyn lobbed a snowball at me! Probably the only snowball fight in the state of Alabama. As we headed South the early morning fog changed into rain showers. We arrived at the camp site around 1 PM and found the trailer on our site already, unfortunately it needed leveling so we had to hitch the truck up for a little manoeuvering. By this time the rain had set in, but I managed to set up electricity, water and sewer. In the meantime Lyn was setting up inside, we were pleased to see that there was no obvious damage to the trailer which had sat in the 100F temperatures and high humidity of an Alabama summer.
Once the place was habitable we headed out to fill up the fridge and shelves with food and drink. By the time we got back from shopping the weather was clearing, so I started to setup the satellite dish. Guess what, no signal.
More to follow.