Friday, October 10, 2008

Red Bay, Alabama

Just a picture of our home away from home.They have Fall displays all over this small town. I took several pictures.


We are refueling here so I went to take a picture.
They have several murals throughout the town. The Tiffin Family own a lot of businesses in this town. Most people here work for Tiffin.
Sue and I have taken turns cooking while we are camped here. Today I made beef tacos, rice and beans. I also made salmon for Manuel.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Hobo Stew Gathering

Manuel and I enjoy our evening with a large group of people who attended the Hobo Stew Gathering at the Allegro/Tiffin Campground. Everyone brought either meat or veggies to the gentleman who cooked the stew. He was a great cook. The stew was delicious.We visited while we are in line to be served. Manuel, Mark, Sue, Greg, and Marynelle are shown below. Before we went to the gathering, se sat outside our motorhome to visit with Sue and Mark. Sue is an artist and is drawing charicatures. Manuel, Mark and Sue Didelot.
Everyone walks towards the front office of the campground for the Hobo Stew Gathering. We carried our chairs and took our own dishes and drinks.
Manuel and Mark went to weigh the motorhome at Richard's recommendation. Mark is completing and making changes to the spreadsheet that Richard sent us via email. Manuel watches on.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

A Day in Florence, Alabama

We returned from Florence and visited with Greg, Mandy, Sue, and Mark. Manuel set up the auto timer on the camera so we could all be in this photo.There were some beautiful homes in this Historic District in Florence which was right by the University of North Alabama.

This is Bob Tiffin's home. It is beautiful!
Sue & Mark in front of one of the fountains on campus.
They had a male and female lion on display. They are shown below along with a statue of the family of lions.

We walked the campus of the University of North Alabama. They have beautiful grounds with a lot of metal/bronze statues. Their buildings are of very unique structure and design.
Manuel and Mark pose next to these beautiful statues.
We went and had lunch/dinner at Rosie's Cantina which is like a Pappasito's in San Antonio. We all had soup and salad, except Mark. He had chile rellenos. It was very good.Our waitress took our picture. Sue, Mark, Greg, Mandy, Manuel and I decided to take a drive to Florence. On the way there, we visited the Coon Hounds Cemetery. This is the only cemetery in the world and the first dog was laid to rest in 1937.There were many dog plots. Some had headstones made of marble, stone, and iron. We looked through all the plots. Very interesting!

Friday, October 3, 2008

Red Bay, AL

Went out to dinner with Sue and Mark. We had a great evening.
Sue & Mark Didelot and Manuel & I just sat outside our RVs and visited. Our plan for tomorrow is to go tour Florence, AL which is about 30 miles away.

Tiffin-Allegro Campground

Mark, Sue, Greg and Mandy arrived here on Thursday. Mark got a full hookup space today, Friday. They are just a few spaces away from us. His RV is the white 5th wheel on the right. He and Sue ordered a Phaeton and they will watch it being built for the next three weeks or so. Greg and Mandy got a partial hookup yesterday but got full hookups today.
We left West Memphis on Wednesday, October 1st to Red Bay, AL. We had an October 2nd appointment which was arranged by Richard King at the Tiffin Shop. The campground was full and they only had dry camping so we were on the runway. We spent the night there and checked at the office early in the morning after they took the RV in for minor upgrades. We were then set up with a full hookup space (22) which is on the first of three long rows of RVs. The technicians work from 7 am to 3 pm so they asked us to be there at 7 am for continuation of work to be done on Friday. We are now back on our spot. We were in bay 13 and Sammy and Brian were out assigned techs.They started work right away but it seemed to slow down after lunch. They got some work done, though.Manuel is walking the shop.
As you can see, the campground is completely full. This is showing only half of the grounds. Manuel and I had coffee in the customer lounge since we had to be there by 7 am.

An Evening with Friends

Richard, Manuel and Mark as they start to cook some beef & chicken fajitas. They are also cooking salmon. All the ladies prepared a side dish and we had a great meal. Mark is bar-b-queing a filet of salmon for Manuel. Manuel is warming up the tortillas.
While Mark bar-b-qued, Richard, Patsy, Sue, Greg, Mandy, Manuel and I gathered around.

West Memphis & Memphis

Manuel and I took a tour of the Davies Manor Plantation in Memphis. This was a plantation from the 1800's. It was a really nice log house. Below is a replica of the cabin house.
We visited the Memphis Visitors Center and took a couple of pictures.
This is the Pyramid Arena which was used by the Memphis basketball team but since they have built a new area, this is no longer in use.
We left Little Rock, AR and drove a couple of hours to West Memphis, AR. We parked at Tom Sawyer RV Park on the Mississippi River. It's a very nice park and we just cleaned our RVs a little then just sat out and relaxed and watched the barges go by carrying multiple loads. It was a very nice site.They were having an AirStream RV Rally at this park. I just took a picture because Corina likes AirStreams.