Travel Plan Finally Prepared

 

ADVENTURE LOCATION:

DECATUR, ALABAMA

POINT MALLARD PARK

DATE: AUGUST 28, 2024

We awoke early to a warm morning and managed to get off to an early start on a good walk. The warm required us to walk carefully in the shade as much as possible. To our surprise when we got near the water every bit of breeze QUIT. At our turnaround bench we sat for a few minutes drinking from the water bottle and letting a joint or three rest a little. Here was our view of the lake. 

CALM LAKE

That shows the total lack of breeze we feel. We eased our way back to the Castle and stayed in air conditioned places most of the day. About 1400 this afternoon Sierra was displaying 100F as the outside temp on our way back from lunch. That is south Texas kind of weather way up north here.

Most of the rest of the day was spent starting to arrange the Castle into traveling mode. So far everything is gently moving to travel mode for the 9/10/24 rolling date. We have to keep on reminding ourselves that we will be back here the first three weeks of November for grand kid performances of their spare time activities. From looking at maps and thinking of doing lots less daily driving it looks like a loose rambling tour of central and western Texas is what we can fit in nicely before returning here in November. Maybe a bit of eastern New Mexico also. We also now plan to spend a couple of days at Martin Creek SP that is a very comfortable park with good Mexican food about five miles away in Tatum Texas. It is just inside Texas off I-20 a few miles. November 1 is our planned date to be back in Point Mallard for the performances of the grands. All this is predicated on Sierras tranny swap out on Sept. 2 going well.

Everyone have fun and definitely stay cool on these hot days.