The retired life of Greg and Dona: Mobile Alabama and Jackson Mississippi

Mon - Wed Nov 11/25 - 11/27, 2013
4:00pm: Arrived at the Wales West RV Resort in Silverhill AL on the east side of Mobile Bay. It's a quaint RV park and mobile home park with the MOST Christmas lights I have ever seen! Fortunately they didn't turn any on after dark. I believe with all the lights turned on, we would not have used any lights inside the RV. There's a small train that runs around the park. Apparently the owners are big train enthusiasts. The club house has a large common area with cooking facility and an indoor pool. It's strange though that the showers can only be entered from the outside of the building.....and only one of those is working. The other one is being remodeled. We were invited to Bingo at 7 tonight but we declined. Grilled Mahi-Mahi with brown rice and broccoli for dinner.
During the night the winds were howling and the rain was coming down. I did not get much sleep. Woke to 42 degrees....burr.

Looking out across a "lake"
at all the Christmas Lights

The community center at Wales West

Our campsite with Christmas lights in all the trees

The train station all decorated for Christmas

more train station.... This is all at an RV park!!!

Wales West RV Park

11/26: Pulled out at 10am heading to Jackson MS. Our plan was to camp overnight at Springridge RV park but when we arrived it was not what we had in mind. It was just off the interstate and it was more a mobile home park rather than RV's. We used the "trusty" GPS to locate another campground 13 miles away in a petrified forest.... what?... in Mississippi? We found it and they had an opening. It was a privately owed park with petrified logs. Very small campground but we had electricity and water and hot showers. It was 40 degrees at 4:15pm when we arrived. Greg immediately went for a run. I started getting dinner ready. It gets dark around 5. We grilled pork chops and had pre-made mashed potatoes, black beans with red onions and avocado.

11/27: (32 degrees at 7am.) The park office opened at 9 so we took the tour of the Petrified forest. It was a very quaint trails thru the forest where there had been a tremendous log jam eons ago leaving logs to be buried and petrified. Very interesting. They also had a really nice little museum with artifacts from around the world of petrified specimens and gem stones. After a quick shower we pulled out at 11:40 to head into Shreveport LA to pick up Greg's brother, Anthony. He was driving up from the Houston area so we could all ride together to Arkansas to see their step-mother and have Thanksgiving with her.