Rainbow Plantation

After leaving Coach Care, we drove to Perry, Florida. There is a motel there with a campground out back which we have used before. It was a good stopping point and one of the few times we have stopped after dark. We try not to do that anymore, but since we got out of CoachCare so quickly, we decided to get a few miles down the road.

Last night then, we spent at Holt, Florida. Nothing of any interest there, just a reasonably priced park at the right time. Today then we rolled into Rainbow Plantation, which is an Escapees Park at Summerdale Alabama. We noticed on the Escapees forum then that some members of our "Graduating Class of 2005" group are here also. They were not at their rig when Terry went down, but we will try to see them before we leave tomorrow. We drove down to Gulf Shores. We were there last Christmas on our way south and saw all the destruction from Hurricane Ivan, I think. There is no doubt they have made great strides in rebuilding the area, but there is much more work to do. It did look like most of the hotels were in business at least to a small degree and a lot of the restaurants and tourist traps are open again.

Tomorrow we are headed for Zachary, Louisiana, to see Terry's cousin and his wife. We just talked with them and confirmed when we would be arriving. They are anxious for us to arrive. We have a fairly long day of driving tomorrow . . . the price we pay for driving a couple really "short" days. But then, that's why we retired. . . so we don't have to be in a hurry. :-)

Till next time. . .

Dale