2020 Trip to Texas

[BigAl52]

You gotta love those 50 amp cords. Always used a round clothes basket to stuff the last one in. New rig has a spool that works quite well. But when there cool it adds some pleasure to the winding up of one.

[JEBar]

yep, a cold 50 amp RV power cord can and usually is a bear to coil up for storage .... in addition to our OEM cord I have two additional ones .... both have been retro fitted to having male and female 50 amp plugs .... I use them as extension cord .... don't need one all that often but when we do, there isn't a substitute .... today we do hope to finish packing all but literally last minute items and to get her hooked up ....

[JEBar]

well, sometimes weeks of planning actually pay off .. .. as forecasted, weather radar shows a large area of rain moving in on us from the south west .... exactly when it will get here in earnest is still open to question but at most its a matter of a few hours .... our camper's slides are in and she's hooked up to our truck .... all that remains for in the morning it to throw in a few last minute items .... if the rain is as heavy as predicted, we may well throw them into the back seat of the truck instead of opening up the camper .... once the truck is cranked and the camper's 50 amp power cord is stored, we will be ready to head for Heritage RV Park in Augusta, GA

[JEBar]

well, the forecast was right .... its raining ... not pouring but raining nonetheless .... per the weather radar, we should pull out of the rain and it be partly cloudy with the temp in the low to mid 60's when we arrive in Augusta .... we hope to pull out around 9AM

[JEBar]

its almost never good to start a post with the comment "the wrecker should be here in an hour or so" .... well, that's the case .... as is our norm, drove out into the field beside the house to turn our rig around .... about half way she ran over a soft spot and sank .... after an hour of digging and we'd moved it the length of one of our set of ramps .... wrecker called .... cancelled trip for today and hope to get on the road in the morning

[JEBar]

she's out of the swamp, parked beside the house (headed out) .... hopefully things will go better in the morning ..

[BigAl52]

Have a safe trip tomorrow Jim and stay out of the mud.

[JEBar]

certainly hope to be able to do just that .... back in February we stayed in a park during a rainy spell that coated our truck with a reddish color that was fairly tough to wash off .... a high pressure car wash wouldn't do the job, to remove it required hand washing with a brush .... don't plan on going back to that park this trip ... I am glad we didn't pay to have our truck and camper power washed a couple of weeks ago

[JEBar]

delighted to say, after an uneventful days drive, we are setup in Heritage RV Park in Augusta, GA .... very nice site ... $35, 50 amp, full hookup .... we covered 305.3 miles in 4 hr 58 min .... one rest stop about half way .... beautiful but cool 57 degrees .... on tap for tomorrow, 339 mi that Google Maps says will take 4 hr 42 min as we move to Sherling Lake RV Park in Greenville, AL .... it should take us about 2 hours into tomorrow's drive to reach Atlanta .... hopefully, we can get around the east side with minimal drama .... our only planned stop tomorrow is to take on fuel at a Pilot just south of Atlanta

[JEBar]

we are up and about as usual for a travel day .... we hope to be able get on the road 9AM for a projected 339 mi / 4 h 46 min drive to Greenville, AL .... all but a few miles will be on interstate highways .... as noted earlier, as usual, the joker in today's deck is what type of traffic we will face going around Atlanta ....