It’s time. 21F, it’s definitely time.

Our buddies John and Lori left today to find free camping in Florida. Good luck with that.

We’re aiming at next Thursday and doing a buster 200-mile slog to Little Ocmulgee SP in south-central Georgia, if weather permits. It’ll probably take us eight hours. We’ve been biding our time; there’s no one here at the Grove but a few residents and it’s been a while that it didn’t hit 28F at night, but the propane’s holding out and there’s no point to rushing to somewhere we can’t be naked at anyway, so we sit.

Miss Lueffie’s pretty well packed and ready to go. Cooking gear, a few woolies and winterizing and we’re outta here. A snow-capped Mount Yonah isn’t a great thrill.

This reads like a downer, but it really isn’t. Cold, snow and ice isn’t really a problem for me (don’t tell Mom) but we really need to go back to Florida to see some old friends and to get some things out of storage such as my BGE and Mom’s pornographic sculptures.

So we’ll have to suffer through those torrid temperatures a couple of months. Woe with me. (G)

But we’ve discovered something here at the Grove. We’re a family, grown out of the same holler so to speak, but a family nonetheless. We will look out for each other from the owner to the lowliest renter; we may bitch and complain but we’ll solidify very quickly. In hard times we fucking make it work.

I met a couple who told me the craziest story ever!

The man said they had packed their truck camper so full, they no longer had any room for their two boxes of 5 liter wine! So, rather than leave that behind, they had 5 gal. of fresh water stashed away in a one of the compartments anyway, so they emptied the campers water tank, and filled it with the wine. Then, off they went!

They found a nice free camping spot next to a trail. Once camp was setup, another couple stopped by and ask for a drink of cold water. They had been walking that trail for a long time and needed a few minutes to rest. So, the man offered the couple a nice cold glass of water from the tap. Low and behold, the glass quickly filled with wine! Oops! Now they remembered they had put the wine in the water tank!

Wine cost approximately $30, turning water into wine, priceless!

This story is true! It was so funny, I just had to blog about it…

This is our second year on the road as snowbird RV’rs. We pushed our luck again this year. Waiting until the last minute to head south to Florida. Last year we headed south from Tennessee the first week of December. This year, it’s the second week of December in N.E. Ga. Well, not much is different. Today, we cleaned up, and packed up some stuff. You know, all the things we won’t need for the next two weeks. We printed out our reservations for the campsites we plan on visiting, which will take us about a week to travel 582 miles! Hey, who’s in a rush anyway?

Being a snowbird isn’t exactly like you can control the weather, but damn, when it starts to get cold, just head south like the birds do and avoid the snow entirely. lol’s

Until next time…