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Monday, March 31, 2008

Leaving Red Bay -- Sun/Mon

Patsy and I slept a little late on Sunday, and when we got up, we started getting the Bus ready ot hit the road. One of the things that I wanted to do at Red Bay was to go to the Sunshine Mill Company and use their truck scale to weigh the Bus.

In discussing it with other RV'ers, you should get a total of nine weights.......... Front axle, Rear Axle, Total Bus weight, Drivers Side, Passenger side, and each wheel. Sunday morning turned out to be a great time to weigh it, as the Mill was totally vacant. We just drove onto the scale and read the reading on the outside by the scale. I was surprised at how balanced and close the weights were, that we did it twice at each position!! Here are some pictures (the third picture shows the total weight of the Bus minus Patsy's weight since she was taking the pictures):


After we got the weighing completed, we went back to the campground and found out that they had seen us leave, and thought we were gone, so they gave our spot away!! That was OK, because we had only planned to tell our friends goodbye, and hit the road. With the women, the goodbyes took a little longer than I expected, but we got on the road by 1:00PM.

As soon as we left the campground, it began to rain, and it rained on us until we were near Little Rock. It was really coming down when I got out to fill up the Bus at a truck stop in Memphis.

We had planned to visit Deanne for a couple of days at Little Rock, so while we were driving, I called the Maumelle State Park to make sure that they had a spot for us. We arrived at about 6:30PM, and got the Bus parked and set up. Deanne arrived at the park just as we did, and after the setup, we went to eat at a Mexican Food Restaurant. It wasn't that good, but we had a good visit.

On Saturday, Patsy and I really slept in......... we did not wake up until after 9:00AM. We met Deanne at her house about 11:00AM, and while I went to a local WIFI place to check email, they went shopping. We got together again at about 1:00PM, and I did some shopping with them........... since it was still raining. At 5:00PM, we ate at an Italian restaurant.

We will hit the road tomorrow for home, and expect to get there sometime Wednesday.

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