Retirement Travels

On our last day of driving, I finally got to drive the RV on the highway, yes going 65 mph, towing the Jeep. I was very comfortable behind the wheel and I think I will be driving again when we are back on the road. We arrived back to our lot in Fairhope, Alabama on Monday, October 23. Echo was glad to see all his girlfriends here in the park. This is Abby and Echo catching up on the months they were apart. We also decided it was time to upgrade our home. We said goodbye to our Winnebago Forza and said welcome to our Tiffin Allegro Red. Our Winnebago was a great coach and we have enjoyed it for 3 years. Some things we love are: The slides are wider so the interior is bigger. The decor, the coloring of the wood, marble flooring. The kitchen window brings in so much light.  It has theater seating and an additional couch so that we can have guests over and have a conversation without having to turn to the side to talk to others sitting on the same side of the coach.  We have hydra...

Our last adventure before heading back to Alabama was in Gatlinburg. We spent 7 days checking out The Great Smoky Mountain area, downtown Gatlinburg, as well as driving around looking for bear. Our first day we decided to drive into The Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We were going to try to go to Clingmans Dome but, we ran into snow at 5,046 feet and they had closed the road that would take us up there. The Chimney Tops were fogged over due to the changing weather. We took a drive through Cades Cove. We got to see some fall colors but the only wildlife we saw was some deer. We chose to go during the day to see the colors rather than later in the day to see more wildlife. We utilized the trolley and spent a whole day walking around downtown Gatlinburg. Here's Ernie chatting with Mr. Worker Pumpkin. 😂😂 We were sitting in our RV one afternoon and we saw some people walking up the road pointing. We went outside because we knew there was a possibility of seeing bear in the RV Par...