Reporting from Summerdale, Alabama

My Fella and I are settling into our daily routines. 

Traveling south for the winter is fun but it's not just an extended vacation. I still need a regular routine to stay productive (daily exercise, stock stuff, errands, dog walking, etc.) We're planning a trip to the zoo tomorrow, but in the meantime, a few random observations about this area: 

Weather

Since we arrived the weather has been perfect: sunny and mid 20's during the day, with lows of 7C at night. But the past few days have been very humid.  100% humidity, a few big storms and a couple tornado warnings as well. My Fella has never been to the southeast and has some trouble breathing in high humidity. He says it's like constantly swallowing water droplets.

But it's better than shovelling snow.

Guns

Guns are a big deal here. It's weird to be sitting at my little desk in JohnnyDisco and suddenly hear gunshots nearby. Guess that's the trade off for picking a small RV park out in the country; if we wanna hear the neighbours rooster crowing at 5 every morning, we have to be okay with those wild turkey shoot-outs as well. Or whatever it is those shotguns are aimed at...  

Water

We've only seen the Gulf coastline twice.

Both days we were out driving around, checking out nearby RV parks.

The resort we're at is great but we like to know what else is out there.  After a few days of snooping around the competition we've decided this is the best park in the area with regards to price and pad privacy - which are the two most important things on our personal "RV Resort List". The other RV parks are a little closer to town and/or the Gulf coast, but the RV pads are basically on top of each other. We try avoid parks where RV's are parked thisclosetogether, packed in like sardines. Definitely not for us.

We've also been scouting out coastal beach houses for rent. Our little family needs a pet friendly spot to call home when we drop JohnnyDisco off at the Tiffin mothership for repairs.

My Fella found a few gulf coast vacation spots online through VRBO and most of them were clustered in this area.  

The homes are all built up on stilts and it looks much nicer than my pics. Very beachy. And very gusty. When I hopped out of the car to get this shot, I was nearly blown into a sand dune. The wind howls like crazy on the Gulf.

The beach grass and dunes are really neat... until you look off into the distance and spot the obligatory off shore oil rig in the background.

BP is still a bad word around these parts.

Edited (7:42 Thursday morning) to add this news link: nasty results from yesterdays tornados. 

Comments

[Mave]

Sounds like you folks are quite close to the ocean. I don't think I'd mind renting one of those houses on stilts. It would be an adventure. So my last blog was ok? We really enjoyed ourselves there.
We're in Mazatlan right now. We leave tomorrow for Lo de marcos.
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Mom and Dad

[Jacq]

My little guy has breathing problems too in the high humidity. I get previously never-seen-before allergic issues of some kind - just feel draggy and puffy all the time. It's a big reason why we moved away from Houston.
I haven't been in that area, but the wind wasn't too bad down on the lower TX gulf coast. Having said that, it's still an issue since South Padre is a wind-boarding/sailing mecca apparently.