Life after Bainbridge, Georgia Jan.2013

We left Bainbridge, Ga. on Thursday morning Jan. 24 and drove about 100 miles down to the Florida Forgotten Coast, Carrabelle, Florida.   Sunset Isle RV was awaiting us and had us a  spot looking over at the Carrabelle River.   Del, the owner told us to just pick a spot, WELL wouldn't you know the one we picked had a plugged up sewer connection and we needed to the dump two weeks of   S___t.  If you have seen the movie  RV with Robin Williams, you know what is about to happen.    Larry gets everything connected and pulls the handle to release realizes it is plugged and shuts it down. Now he is faced with 20 feet of sewer hose full of   S___t.  I called the owner, we are going to change sites but what do you do with a 20 ft hose of S____t?  The owner tells Larry just dump on the ground and I will hose it down however my clever husband decided to unhook hold the two ends up and walk to the other dump.   He did a great job and never spilled any.   So thus the picture here on the Blog.

That was the start to a great weekend though.

Later that afternoon we went into town and bought 2 pounds of fresh shrimp and cooked them for dinner.   Friday we went to the Crooked River Lighthouse and had a great tour of the museum and Larry got a new job as Lighthouse Keeper.   We decided that my back and knees wouldn't like it if we climbed it so we just enjoyed a couple of videos about the history of the lighthouse.  We drove over to Eastpoint and had lunch at The Hut (fried shrimp) of course and then went to Barbers to buy some shrimp to have in the freezer. 

Saturday we had a visit from Becky Mapel who was married to Larry's first cousin, Steve who was killed in Viet Nam in 1968.   She since married and had a family and lives in the area.    After that we drove over to St. George Island to check it out.  It has the Gulf of Mexico on one side and the Appalachicola  Bay on the other.  A lot of vacation homes and also a state park for camping.  Later we had dinner at the Fisherman's Wife Restaurant and had a nice lesson from the owner, Miss Pam, about the different types of shrimp.   We understand the Key West Pink are the best shrimp to eat.  We were invited by the park owner to stay and have a cookout on Sunday with a group of his friends who were smoking mullet and also cooking venison.  We already had plans to move on to another park, so we thanked him and left Sunday morning and traveled about 130 miles to Miramar Beach Fl, which is just outside of Destin.   Very nice RV park about 2 blocks from the Gulf. Interesting name for the park, Geronimo RV Park. We will be here a couple of days and then move on over closer to Gulf Shores Alabama .