Golf and chillin

Well we haven't posted anything new in a couple of days because we haven't done anything worth posting.  I played golf Sunday north of Gulf Shores outside a little town called Elberta.  The course is called Soldiers Creek Golf Club which goes well with one of the two people I played with.  The course was long from the tees we played but I played fairly well for me shooting an 88 on a course I have never seen before.  I usually play better when I haven't practiced or played in a while. I played with two other guys one from the Gulf State Park and another who was the father of a friend of his who he had never met.  The man from the park was named Charlie and the other guys nick name was Alley.  We never did learn his real name.  We had a lot of fun.  Charlie is 66 and was in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 during the Tet Offensive and still suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to this day.  While Charlie and I had only just met it seemed we had known each other for years when the day was over.  He told me stories most people wouldn't talk about until you know someone for years.  Alley was in his late 40's and works for the city of Foley, Alabama.  Alley loved sports of all kinds but especially Alabama football.  This made for some interesting conversation since Notre Dame became number one in the country that day and Alabama became number two in the nation. Who would have ever thought Notre Dame could wind up winning a national championship this year.  They still have to get past USC next week so we will see.  I just hope if they do play for a national championship they are competitive since many of the so called experts don't give them much of a chance against a team like Alabama

We also met a couple who moved in across the street from us who are from Plymouth, Indiana which is only about 30 miles west of Warsaw.  They full time in a Septor motor home staying in the south for the winter and going back to the Plymouth area for the summer. They work part time at Pioneer Seed Company in the summer time.  They have pretty much convinced us to follow them to the Okeechobee KOA in Okeechobee, Florida in late December between Christmas and New Years.  We were planning on staying here through March but they said this rv park we are going to is the greatest they have ever been to and they guaranteed we wouldn't regret it.  The park has a nine hole regular (not par 3) golf course on site, a pool that is open, hot tubs, and plenty of activities and entertainment at the park.  In addition we can ride our bicycles around the levee which apparently surrounds lake Okeechobee which is about 50 miles long and 50 miles wide.  This may take a few days unless they let us do it on the motorcycle.  I didn't know this but apparently there are only three places you can see Lake Okeechobee while driving around it due to the levee.  The couple said the weather is much warmer than Gulf Shores in January and February which we already knew.  The weather here so far has been very good with highs in the 60's to mid 70's but it will probably get a little cooler in January and February.  When we originally researched coming here we knew it was around 10 degrees cooler than where we were at last year in Florida.  We are looking forward to going somewhere we have never been to before.  We talked to the people who run the park today and they sounded great and said they had an opening if we want it.  

Here are some misc. pictures I have taken in the last couple of days.

 

 

This is our site with our screen room set up over the picnic table.  There is also room for three chairs and a tv set in this screen room.

 

 

This is our neighbor Bob and Gail Van Dam from Michigan

 



 

 

This is our neighbor on the other side who we don't know yet but they do have three young children.  Their fifth wheel has a bedroom in the front and back as well as two bathrooms.  We could tell it has two bathrooms more than likely because it has sewage pipe coming out from under the front and back of the unit.  We have also been in similar units at rv shows.

 

 

The following were taken on our evening  3.5 mile walk.  Our walk used to require us to follow a set course which we had measured using our bike computers but now we have pedometers that allow us to go anywhere to get our 3.5 mile walk in.   We started out this evening walking along the lake behind our fifth wheel.

 

 

This is the Gulf State Park picnic shelter which is on the beach on the Gulf of Mexico.  There is road between it and the lake at the south end of the camp ground but you can't see it in this picture due to the trees.

This is at the back of the camp store and is a part of the lake that runs behind our camp site.

It's actually much darker than this picture indicates.  We are on our way back to our unit.