ROS AND JOHN RV LIFE: 2022

Cars, fog and a tower.

Saturday 10th December 2022

We visited Wellborn Muscle Car Museum which was listed highly on searches of what to do in the area. If we were more into cars I guess it would have been more fun but the place was small, the cars were all pretty much the same, viewing them was very restricted and it cost $11 each. Someone like our friend Dave Leonard would have had a blast.

The gentleman who gave us an introduction to the museum said two cars were used in a movie called Vanishing Point and one still has the original dirt and bangs. John did a Goggle search, the director claims all the cars were destroyed after filming.

After the very short walk around the museum we drove into Alexander City center but as with many town centers there is not much to see with old store fronts now being used by accountants or insurance companies. Such a shame the small towns of America are disappearing.

Sunday 11th December 2022

Had a quiet day as the weather was pretty bad but we did take a drive to a dam. It seems we are destined to visit dams on bad weather days. The Martin Dam is only open to visitors by appointment but we thought we could maybe walk near it. Nope, the nearest we could get to it was at an overlook point and due to the very heavy fog we could not see it. The only glimpse was from the truck as we drove across a road bridge downstream.

I see no dam

Monday 12th December

We visited Smith Mountain Fire Tower, Jackson's Gap. This was a half-mile vertical climb up, followed by a half-mile very cautious climb down. The tower is 80' tall and has quite a history. John climbed up it. Since my ladder fall in June I have not been loving heights so I stayed below with Morgan. The views were amazing.

https://tallapoosacountytourism.com/smith-mountain-trail-firetower/

I spy Ros sitting on a rock way way below the tower

Afterward we drove into Dadeville, though once again, not much to see - but there was a cool hardware store that must have had some history. They sold all sorts, from farm supplies to saddles to workwear.

Lovely town center but all the buildings were used for businesses such as financial.

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, Alabama.

Friday 9th December 2022

We visited our first National Park, Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. There was a visitor center with very informative museum style displays telling you about the history of the area. Very basically in 1814 Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks. I will let you Google and read about it.

The National Park Service has a passport, a book with sections for each park in the country. Each time you visit one you stamp your book with a date stamp found in the visitors center. For John's 60th birthday in July I got him a special collectors edition of this book which we took to the park and he got his first stamp!

We walked the 3.5 mile trail around the park following historic markers and sat on the side of the Tallapoosa River for a picnic.

First week at Wind Creek State Park.

We had a quiet first week in Alabama, John working and I took Morgan for some smaller walks. There were some trails at the park but I did not feel safe walking on them on my own as I have other parks. The park was very near Alexander City and felt more accessible to everyone so I restricted my wanderings to the park roads.

Back in NJ we had started to Geocache. This is on an app, people hide small items sometimes with a logbook and you follow the gps app to find the items. You don't keep them you just record your find. I took Morgan out with me one afternoon to look for some Geocaches, we didn't find many but had fun walking around the Park.