Shakedown

We decided to take another “shakedown” trip since I was off for a long weekend. Saturday, we stayed close by at the Huntsville Space and Rocket center. I heard about this campground from one of my patients. I think it is about 25 spaces with full hookups and is $15/night. Not bad. In the field next to the campground, the space camp kids set off their home made rockets which is fun to watch. Anyway, we got there around 11:30 and found a spot. And then after leveling problems, proceeded to change the spot to the next one over. The campground stays full most of the year so all the prime spots were taken and we were left with our choice of the two in the middle. Now, this campground is set up like a circle with a few spots the the middle. I’m sure we looked silly to the experienced campers as we fumbled around with our new motorhome. A few even came out to watch! In the evening, we went to the Huntsville Symphony. The program included The Planets and some themes from Star Wars. It was a lot of fun.

Sunday morning, we broke camp and set out for DeSoto State Park. We towed the jeep for the first time, which a high anxiety producing situation for me. And by the way, we filled gas for the first time on Saturday. The price per gallon was about $2.89/gallon…75 gallon tank…enough said. Back to DeSoto and the towing, Mike did a very good job driving. We even managed to stop at a grocery store and make it back out of the parking lot! Call me crazy but it's the little things that make me happy. It took us about 2 hours to get here, so that is the longest we’ve driven the RV to date. All in all, it went well. We found a nice, wooded, secluded campsite and went out to see the area. Sites included DeSoto Falls, and the Little River Canyon, which a National Preserve. Unfortunately, we don't have many photos because the camara battery died the day we got there. The photo above was the last one we got.