We’re off again!!

Well we set off on Sunday the 30^th April for our ‘big’ RV trip – Six months, covering about 17 US States, 6 Canadian Provinces and two trips back home to the UK for two weeks each – The first for a 70^th Birthday Celebration on the 19^th June (for Luna) and the second for a 1^st Birthday celebration on the 28^th September (for Andy).

Phew!

Did anyone spot the deliberate mistake in the paragraph above?

Shhhhh  –  Don’t tell anyone, but Wendy does sometimes say that Andy acts like a one year old!

We set off at 10:30am and Disaster almost struck at 10:35!!

An idiot driving along the road almost wiped us off as we pulled off the estate road (for our US friends – pulling out of Eastfield Path onto Pinellas) – they didn’t slow down as they saw us pulling out and swerved around us at about 50 mph, nearly hitting a car coming the other way.

Not a great start to the trip!

With just one stop for lunch, we arrived at our first site which was the Tallahassee RV Park around 2:40 – a nice steady first day.

BUT Disaster struck yet again!!!!!

As we settled down to a nice Whisky with Dry Ginger Ale and a Gin and Tonic with a slice of lemon – what should we find, but that we had forgotten to pack the Whisky and Gin – Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Could thing possibly get any worse – well yes they could!!

As we had no Whisky and Gin, we settled down to a glass of wine – Ahhhhh Bliss.

Taking one sip each and saying Cheers, we put the full wine glasses on the coffee table (low table) and sat back, then the Hunter decided to put his feet up and proceeded to kick both full glasses of wine over on the new rug (carpet) – ho no, spilling them over the Gatherer, who jumped to her feet squealing and shouting.

Ok, on the bright side, that was three catastrophes, so we should be ok now (fingers crossed).

During the night, the heavens opened and it rained cats and dogs (for our US friends, that means ‘rather a lot’) but we were snug in bed and after a few glasses of wine, we didn’t give a damn!

The next morning was rather cloudy, but not raining and we packed up and set off about 9:20.

Rather a windy day, with the RV swaying a bit and then some heavy rains, but nothing we couldn’t cope with, so after a couple of rest stops, we arrived at the second night’s site, Eagles Landing near Fort Walton at 1:50 – two very easy driving days to get us back in the swing of RV traveling.

Both the first two sites were fine, a little bit of traffic noise, but after a few glasses of wine, not enough to keep you awake!

The second morning, it was bright and sunny, the usual Florida weather (although we were now in Louisiana) – we set off about 8:40, having passed into Central Time Zone and passed through the rest of Florida, then through Alabama and then through Mississippi and into Louisiana.

We were going to stay just north of New Orleans at the Pine Crest RV park – it was very full and both the only two places they had left were a bit tight, but in we went – set everything up and set off to find the nearest store that sold Whiskey and Gin – found a shop just down the road and stocked up, now we can relax!!!!

We are looking forward to tomorrow, as it will be our first ‘proper’ holiday day, without moving the RV.

(Little did we know)

The morning was nice and warm, without being too hot and a little cloudy, so we took the bikes off the car and set off for the day in New Orleans, just a few miles down the road.

As we drove, the day got a little cloudier and as we got into the outskirts of New Orleans, the Thunder started along with some quite impressive Lightning Strikes – whoops, what sort of day do we have facing us?

By the time we had parked the car ($15) and started to explore the French Quarter, it had started raining – heavy, on and off and getting heavier and heavier – still we stuck it out for about three hours and had a look around the place, but at 1 o’clock, we decided, enough was enough and set off back to the car, getting drenched on the way

The ride back to the RV was horrendous, none stop thunder and lightning and torrential rain – still when we got back to the RV our troubles would be over and we could put our feet up – wrong again!

Before we set off in this morning, we opened the three roof vents, to let out the hot air from the RV during the day – wise move – no – under each roof vent, was a small pool of water – grrrr – which had to be mopped up before having a stiff Whiskey and a G & T and finishing the writing of this entry to the blog.

The only worry we have, as it is thundering and raining so heavy, is that you can hear what we are writing, we can hardy hear ourselves write it’s so loud!!!!

More soon.