April 6,2016...... Wednesday

It was a beautiful,sunny day, so we decided to go golfing. It was Richard and my first time out on a golf course for this season, so we didn't expect much. I realized I had forgot my putter at home. I couldn't use one of theirs  because first I am a lot shorter than they are and more importantly I am left handed. So Richard went to the clubhouse to see if we could rent one. Surprisingly they had one I could use for free. Actually Richard  ended up with a pretty good score, me not so much. I was beat after 9 holes but Richard, Jack and Jan golfed the back nine and I just drove the cart. We had a really good time.

April 5, 2016..... Tuesday

Richard and Jack got the motorhome all hooked up in their driveway. Jan & I decided to go do some shopping. The guys spent time on the lake (which their house is on) they drove the kayaks and later Richard tried his hand at fishing (no luck) of course he was using artificial worms. I said it would have to be pretty stupid fish to nibble at a worm that wasn't even real!! He said next time he'll try corn...I didn't know fish ate corn, but of course a fisher I am not!

April 3,2016 ...Sunday

Had good driving weather again. I didn't remember Alabama being so hilly. Again we drove around 300 miles. Our next campsite was in Bainbridge, GA. On Lake Seminole. It is a Core of Enginers Çampground which we had stayed at before. It is a pretty lake. The water was very calm, hardly a ripple. Richard tried to get his fishing pole ready (I can't believe he wants to fish), but the reel was broken. There was a beautiful sunset. 

April 2 2016 - Saturday

A very Happy "23d" Birthday to our grandson Jacob!! We had a good travel day..sun and low wind. Traffic was fairly light through Nashville, which is usually busy..probably because it was Saturday. We left KY,through Tenn to Alabama. Our next campsite was Cullman RV Park in Cullman,AL,285 miles and 6 driving hours. Thank goodness we were able to get a site because the Çampground was filled, being the weekend, there were a lot of families, in fact RV's that came in after us were turned away. We arrived late afternoon, so of course Richard took a walk around "visiting" He also met a new friend which he took a picture of...a white horse! He actually got pretty close to it, leave it to Richard!!

April , 2016... Friday

Well Pauper's Pride is on the road again! We are on our way back down to sunny Florida. We hit rain off & on for the first several hours. Extremely windy... Makes for intense driving conditions in a motorhome! About 4 hours driving and we hear a loud "swish, swish" kind of noise. My first thought was that we blew a tire! I saw out the window that the awing on the motorhome came down, and it is a huge awing!! The strong winds were whipping it about. Luckily we were on a city road, not on the  expressway. It was a stroke of luck that we were near a truck repair shop with a circle drive. (You can't just pull over or turn around a 30 foot RV with a car being towed) how that awing got loose is still a mystery because it is locked in place. Richard had to flip the lock to unlock it so we could get it rolled back up in place. It was really cold out and so windy, it was hard to get it back up and locked in place,but we did it. One side of the awing got several rips and will probably have to be repaired. A funny side note..... There were two guys outside by the trucks that looked like straight out of the movie "deliverance " with two not so friendly looking dogs! As it turned out the dogs were very friendly sniffing around our legs while we were trying to deal with the awning. The guys just stood there and watched us...duh! We continued on our way and made Padacuh, KY after 8 driving hours and 316 miles. We spent the night at Victory RV Park  which we had stayed at before.

October 18,2015-Sunday

HOME!! Well another trip has ended. We thank God it was a safe and healthy one! We enjoyed our time in FLorida, especially the beaches, but as I have said in the past,... There is no place like home with family and friends. Again we thank you for being with us via our journal/blog. Until Pauper's Pride is back on the road....we are signing off. Rich & Audrey

October 17,2015-Saturday

Another great travel day on our second day of our journey home. Oh we did see the Oscar Meier Weener-mobile on the road! By the time I got the camera tho, it passed us (see pic) we did have a slight incident well on the road. As we were driving, we heard a loud noise, we thought something must have fallen in the RV, but it sounded more like a gunshot! A few seconds later we saw that our windshield had a slight moon shaped crack. Evidently a rock or something hit it, there was a truck carrying gravel that passed us. We stopped at a rest area and Richard checked it, luckily it is only a surface crack, but a crack nonetheless, but it could have been worse. We drove about 200 miles, around 5 hrs. We had reservations at Wolf Creek State Park in Windsor,IL, in southern Illinois on Lake Shelbyville. That leaves about 180 miles tomorrow to home!