Thursday, March 1, 2012

Jacksonville FL then off to Red Bay Alabama

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We left Bushnell, Florida Monday mid morning as we tried to dodge the rains that are hitting the northern half of the state. We left in the drizzle and were on the road for about an hour when I could see some heavy rain ahead. We pulled into a 2011-11-02 Jacksonville, FL 035rest stop and since it was close to lunch we fired up the generator ran the microwave and turned on the AC. About an hour later the rain had cleared and the weather web site showed a break in the rain so we headed back on to the highway.

Not only did we enjoy a leisurely lunch but we were able to avoid the rain and get in a good exercise for our generator (which was a bit overdue). Another two hours up the road and we covered the rest of the 159 miles to make it to a park we have been to before – Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park in Jacksonville Florida. We are here to finish off our visits to the Mayo clinic and to say goodbye to the Atlantic Ocean as we will then head west.

jzh fishingWhere to? First priority is a stop in Red Bay, Alabama where we hope the Tiffins will assist in the cost of replacing four of our failed double-paned windows. After several calls the best offer we got was the windows at cost plus labor, not the best deal in the world. but we felt it was good enough to replace three of our windows,

2011-11-02 Jacksonville, FL 024We are watching the weather to best predict our departure as we are here till Friday with the option to stay through the weekend and leave Sunday or Monday. If the bad weather that is predicted pans out we will leave one of those later days. We will make a short stop at Tifton, GA or Auburn, AL before a final push to Red Bay, We should end up in the birthplace of our motorhome by mid to late next week.

I am not really happy about spending time in the southeastern USA during this time of the year so we will not spend too much time at each spot along the way…In the meantime we will be enjoying the beach and I will get in a bit more coastal fishing.

On a brighter note we found a little Irish Pub (nothing to wrote home about) and celebrated passing our Mayo tests again and yesterday was the one year anniversary of Sharon;s retirement, and today is the one year anniversary of my retirement. A few cold adult beverages last night and it was home for a nice celebratory dinner…

11 comments:

  1. Red Bay...oh what beauty compared to Bushnell...hehe. Not my favorite place any time of the year. We had our windows replaced last year with the exact arrangement you have. Thank goodness they know what they are doing so the labor wasn't bad at all. Safe travels. ~wheresweaver

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    1. yes thank goodness for our tax refund or should I say Red Bay's refund...

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  2. Glad to hear you're watching the weather. I'd get the heck out of Alabama asap!

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    1. yep we added two more days here in Hanna Park to avoid the next front...

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  3. We had three of our windows repaired in Quartzsite, with an 18 month warranty $225.00 each. Our coach is 13 years old and the job was done very quickly on site. Good luck with the new windows.

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    1. yep we are going ot replace 3 and have one repaired later since it is a whole lot cheaper for this window.

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  4. Congratulations on a one year anniversary for you both. Travel safe and have fun everyday.

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  5. Congratulations on your one year anniversary. Seems like yesterday I started following you. We are headed up to Jacksonville tomorrow to watch a friend of ours daughter play at UNF and planned on checking out Hanna Park on Saturday for future camping. Just another 3 years for us before we retire and hit the road. Happy travels...
    Ann

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    1. Ann we are actually thinking about going to watch UNF play softball tomorrow as well but if we don't feel free to look us up at site 274 - email me at heyduke50 @ inorbit . com (omit spaces) and I can send my phone number to meet up so we could chat a bit.

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  6. Good luck in Red Bay. I'm wondering why at least two Tiffin owners are having trouble with these windows and how many more are. Is this something Tiffin might want to consider changing??

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