Wednesday May 30, 2012

This is our last day at the Southern Trail RV Resort. We will miss it as it has a really great management group. Our stay has been made most enjoyable by the efforts of the staff. We will be sure to return to this resort in the future.

Today the weather has been wonderful. Very little wind and lots of sunshine. Got very warm as it is 89 degrees here.

Today we ate with our full-timing friends and after breakfast one couple left. They are traveling down to Mims, Florida. He had all the Thousand Trails parks on a disk and he put them on my Delormi Street Atlas. Included were all the Passport America, VA Clinics, Wal-Marts, AOR, Camping World, Corps of Engineers, Flying J, Pilot, and dozens of more locations important to RV'rs. You can select which sites you want to be displayed. I can see where this will be real handy in selecting your travel route.

After we completed the software upgrade we went to do some grocery shopping. Went to a local Piggly Wiggly to pick up some things before we head out tomorrow. The items in the store were not fresh at all so we headed on up the road to a Wal-Mart. Prices were better and the food was much fresher.

The other big effort today was to upgrade our Thousand Trails membership to include Mid Atlantic Parks and Outdoor Resorts. One of the big advantages is we can now go park to park for 3 weeks at a time with no out of the system time. Prior to the upgrade, we could only go for 2 weeks at a time - and if we stayed even a little as 1 day at a TT Park we had to be out of the system 7 days. I feel that this is a real improvement on our full timing. In addition we can no make reservations 120 days ahead. A real plus for getting into a park around holidays and the peak travel season. Linda and I debated all last evening and this morning before we spent the money.

This evening we prepare to leave in the morning. We will have our pancake breakfast in the club house and have the wheels turning by 10:00

Otis and Linda - on the road