1st Day of November

I woke up to a beautiful morning, the sun is shining.

Here is our home from the front where we are parked for a few months.

Are the guys trying to get some work done building onto a church?

Dale and Ben waiting for their job

Mark, Alan and Ben trying to get the wall held up.

Dale and Ben check to see if it’s level

Are these guys working on helping to add a small addition and to tie the buildings together? Oops i forget their volunteers and breaks are often and work is little … just kidding ..on a serious note .. it’s all work for the Lord and some may have health issues, some are older and they may require more breaks or only offer a few hours of service but no matter what the circumstances were blessed to be here and be apart of this wonderful experience.

My flowers are enjoying the warm weather again. They love going south for the winter.

I spent my day doing a bit of straightening up, did a couple loads of laundry and spent the afternoon visiting with new friends.

It’s been a beautiful day here .. God is so good.

Happy Halloween

Wow, it’s amazing this is the last day of Oct. Where has the time gone this summer?

We went to church and after church we went to lunch with new friends and church members. We went to a Southern Buffet and man o man .. it was so good. I thought Woody’s had the best fried chicken .. wrong this place does. The food was excellent and i look forward to enjoy more meals there.

After church we came home and it’s such a beautiful day outside. The weather is perfect. This is the view out my front door .. yes the dogs are excited to have a big yard to run in.

These 2 pictures are out of the big and small window sitting at my table. I love the view as i’m not to hip on seeing RV’s out my window.

The view out the back side of our camper is a building and RV.

Hubby changed clothes and went to work on leveling up our rig as this morning i had problems with bouncing from wall to wall. The rig settled a bit on the loose soil and so he went to work to level us up. He did a wonderful job and now i won’t be bouncing off the walls. We went to evening services and once again the service was good. The song service is wonderful, the pastor so far seems to be what we like. The people appear to be very friendly.

After church we came home and spent the evening relaxing.

Mississippi here we come

Last night was our first time staying over night while traveling on the road since we got our new home. It’s different then it was in the motor home. With our motor home we had access to everything. Well in our new home, we don’t. When the slides are in you can not access anything in the kitchen/living room. No big deal since i don’t do much cooking and esp when were on the road.

We do have access to the bedroom and bathroom, very important. With our new home we have to lift the generator in and out, in our motor home we didn’t have to do that. What we did was put it under the 5th wheel between the truck and camper and we ran a ext cord through the bedroom slide out to plug in the TV, alarm clock and my computer of course. those are must have things. One good thing we like about truck stops is the truckers don't mind our generator noise as their running their trucks, plus the noise is an added bonus as when it’s quiet we don’t sleep as good. Other then the fact that you don’t have heat/air while your traveling, it wasn’t bad. Normally by the time we stop were tired and ready to lay in bed and relax anyway.

We woke to a nippy morning .. we took the dogs potty, went inside and got coffee, soda and a honey bun for the road. We pulled out of the Pilot a bit after 7 am and as you can see the temp was 30 degrees!

Once we were into Mississippi the temps had warmed up nicely and it was a smooth ride.

We were finally in Mississippi and of course we had to stop at the welcome center.

The welcome center was pretty neat, it had soldiers and of course fall decorations.

Lots of miles through Mississippi as once again we are going down the entire state.

We finally arrived around 2.30 pm. Jim and a man named Russell greeted us. Hubby got us backed in and we started getting setup.

After we got settled in we went out to dinner with fellow RVer’s Jim and Lonna. They took us to a fabulous place called Catfish something .. i forget the rest but will get it later. The food was wonderful and the fish was excellent! I had a Ribeye steak that was so good, hubby and the others had all you can eat catfish .. it was really good too.

We got home around 8 or so and we were exhausted so we called it a night and went to our own homes. A shower and the bed was calling me. It’s so good to be parked in a new place.

On the road

We got up and got the last minute things done. We were ready to roll by 8 am. Our friends were not ready so we went down and helped them get their rig ready to roll. The last 3 rigs pulled out all together around 9 am. We stopped for breakfast at Tony’s and then on 55 we parted our ways. Were heading to Mississippi and their both heading to Texas.

After leaving Illinois we were in Missouri .. Yep some hills, some flat. I didn’t see a Missouri welcome sign .. oh well .. We stopped in Matthews Mo at a Love’s truck stop to fuel up and since it was around 2 o’clock we grabbed a bit of lunch. I got the sweet onion chicken teriyaki subway and hubby got fried chicken.

Crossing the Mississippi River .. what a bridge

The Mississippi is pretty wide here .. I love having internet on the road.

It’s been wonderful having my mifi with me on this trip. I am able to post to my blog and face book for family and friends to keep up with where we are.

Although it is limited and therefore the pictures have to wait until we are parked and free wifi to get posted.

After crossing the bridge Tennessee is in site.

I was so disappointed my Tennessee pic turned out blurry but it was pretty bouncy. They are doing road construction .. Oh well .. you get the ideal that we are now in Tennessee

I wanted to stop for a break and i enjoy going through the welcome centers.

Tennesse welcome center was decorated for fall .. i love fall decorations and outside they even had cotton. They are big cotton growers

From the outside it looked like some old cabin but the inside was neat .. this was really neat .. although the entry for truckers/RV’s is not so great .. look

Yes .. you walk up the stairs from the parking lot and then you walk up a steep walkway and finally arrive to the restrooms and then its back down the slope and down the stairs.

Here we are parked in the parking lot

We parked in Jackson, Tennessee in a Pilot's parking lot for the night. Tomorrow we should arrive in Mississippi. Hubby got the generator out and hooked a cord up so we could have TV, my computer and the alarm clock

Only 1 more day until moving day

1 more day and we will be moving to a new place. I love moving to new places and seeing new territory. Although we have been to Mississippi on numerous occasions this area will be new to us. This trip should be around 695 miles.

We are going to be spending most of the winter near Mobile, Alabama. Were looking forward to exploring this area and were praying that it’s much warmer then it was last year in Texas. We’ve driven through Mobile several times, but we’ve never really had the time to stop and explore.

Most of the day was spent packing things up. Cleaning and getting everything ready to roll in the morning. We went to lunch with friends, Jackson, Anna, George, Arnett, Miriam and Sally for the last time this year. After lunch hubby went to start our generator and it wouldn’t start, he tried putting the battery charger on it but it wouldn’t work either. So off to Wal-mart we went to purchase a new one. After letting the new charger charge the battery the generator started right up and worked great .. am i ever glad as it’s wonderful to have a generator when your dry camping or boon docking.

The tanks were all emptied, the water was disconnected and all the hoses were put away. It’s suppose to get down to 30 degrees tonight so we wanted everything put away that could freeze. My flowers were brought inside. I made some home made Chili for dinner tonight.

Around 4.30 pm we headed to visit Jackson and Anna and have some home made choc pie. It was delicious and after our pie we played trash train. Gabe and Kelsey called while we were visiting and so it was time to say good bye and head back home to see our kids before we head out. We ate dinner with the kids and visited. Of course they brought Myakka their doggie and as always she was happy to see papa and grammy.

The kids left around 9.30 pm and so i cleaned up and all that is left to do tomorrow is take the satellite dish down, put the computer up, hook up and pull in the slides. We don’t plan to leave to early, but you never know.

The dogs are excited, every time we go to the door they run to it and want outside, they run to the truck .. like okay, i’m ready. It’s amazing how they know when it’s time to move our home.