As usual our little girl Millie was right in her blog a few days ago – she is a smart little terrier!

We have indeed set off on a long trip out West today and hope to visit some of the places that Millie mentioned, even though she didn’t know what they were.

Although the yellow stone she referred to is in fact the Yellowstone National Park, which we hope to explore in a few weeks’ time, after a couple of thousand miles on the road and a few hundred dollars in fuel.

So she doesn’t have to worry about playing fetch as the ‘yellow stone’ is much too big to throw!

We were a bit late setting off, what with putting all the clothes in the RV (enough to fill Walmart!) and all the food we loaded up with (again, enough to fill Walmart, but at least we won’t starve) and we didn’t pull away until 11:30.

Then 4 hours 30 minutes, 232 Miles and just one lunch break later, we pulled into our first stop of this trip, Wanee Lake RV Park and Country Club in Georgia.

A real nice little RV Park and we are parked right next to the Golf Course.

The two days cost us just $47 ($23.50/day) with the Good Sam Club discount and to play 9 holes costs just $8, which includes the rent for the Golf Ca

Our plan is to stop here for two days, so it is clubs out and a quick 9 holes tomorrow.

Went for a walk this morning (day two) as it is a bit too hot to play golf yet, but the management is quite laid back and said we could walk around the golf course, as long as we looked out for the golfers!

Out came the new ‘Millie’s Stroller’ and off we went – as soon as the girl started panting and looking for shade (Millie not Wendy), we put her in, she didn’t settle at first, but eventually she got used to it and we sweated and puffed our way around the course pushing her ladyship in the stroller.

As you can see from the pictures, she is quite happy to have servants to push her around when she gets tired.

Eventually we got round to playing 9 holes of golf and Millie offered to drive the Golf cart for us and as you can see from the pictures below, we agreed to let her drive it – honest!

Nice little course, good greens, but the paths between the tees was a bit rough, or it might have been Millie’s driving, we are not sure which!

The next morning we were up bright and early (well about 8am) to set off through Georgia to Alabama, we were aiming for just south of Birmingham (Alabama), to the Oak Mountain State Park for three nights, before setting off a little further north to the Tiffin factory in Red Bay Alabama to have a few small jobs done on the RV.

We managed to get away by 9:30 and had a good drive North West, through the Georgia countryside, which after about 30 minutes driving turned from rural farm land to miles and miles of very heavily wooded countryside, very picturesque.

After 286 miles, 6 hours and one fuel stop, pulling into the State Park (at the wrong entrance), we made our way three miles across the mountain past a couple of lakes to the campground.

A lot of birds and squirrels in the campground and as we walked down to the lake which borders it, we saw a snake slithering into the water and as we turned around from watching the snake, we saw a little Chipmunk, at least we think it was a Chipmunk as it looked like Alvin from the films (although it didn’t talk to us)!

The following day we climbed the mountain up a very narrow road, when we say climbed, we mean the car climbed it with us driving.

The view at the top was spectacular and we could see across the Alabama forest land for miles and miles.

Saturday night saw us light our first BBQ fire in the Fire Pit, a really novel idea with a metal ring and a hinged BBQ grill that you flip over once the fire has burnt to a good bed of hot embers.

Sunday morning was spent exploring the area around the State Park, unfortunately we found a Walmart and she who must be obeyed decided that we had not brought quite enough things and food so we went in and bought another $438 worth!

Actually it was a joint decision and we didn’t spend all the money on food, we bought things like a Mexican Train Domino set, elbow and foot support for the drivers golf elbow and aching feet, a few water pipe fittings and ink cartridges for the in-RV printer, still when we heard the size of the bill, we both said ‘Ouch’.

The afternoon was spent chilling around the RV, watching the birds and the antics of the squirrels and the evening trying out our new set of Mexican Train and slowly depleting our generous stock of wine and beer.

Monday morning we set of bright and early, well 9:30 for the short drive to the Tiffin Factory in Red Bay Alabama.