Little Mountain RV Resort

Little Mountain RV Resort has been a great place to stay. It is out in the country, about 15 miles from Guntersville, AL, but the quiet and beauty of the lake more than make up for the remoteness. Mike discovered a golf course in the state park nearby and we have played golf for the past three days. The course is beautiful! It has been cut out of the forest and is very undulating with elevation changes on literally every hole. Most green are also elevated and soft in front, which was a real problem for short hitters like me. If you didn’t carry the ball onto the green it stayed short and then you were faced with a chip to an elevated green with Bermuda grass that was somewhat bumpy.

On Thursday I bogied the first twelve holes and then played the last six holes only one over. I hit two greens in regulation out of the first twelve and three putted both of them. My stellar play the last six holes allowed me to separate Mike from $8 to go with the $2 I won on Wednesday and the $4 I won on Friday. My only problem now is that I only receive four shots from Mike and I am now vulnerable for a gigantic loss. We probably won’t play again until we return to Birmingham so I will be able to hold onto the money for a few days at least.

We have made some revisions to our schedule here in Alabama and will now eliminate several of the smaller towns we were going to visit, mostly for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail locations. We will stay here for an extra day, we paid the weekly rate so it doesn’t cost us anything, and then head back to Birmingham for a weeks stay. We will get Alex spayed while there and maybe play a little golf. My friend Rick, from The View report, sent me an e-mail today saying that his girlfriend Cindy has a pontoon boat and wondered if we would like to go fishing on the Alabama River. My response was yes so we are waiting to see if Cindy’s schedule will allow her some time for the outing.

From Birmingham we will go directly to the Gulf where we will stay in Gulf State Park, which also has a golf course. They have only 91 units refurbished from the hurricane and I am not sure about the condition of the golf course but hopefully they have it in some kind of playable condition. We will look at a couple of other parks that are near the gulf and may stay in one or two before we move to the Gulf Breeze RV Resort on May 5th. We will stay at Gulf Breeze for a week and then go to Lafayette, LA, Cajun country, for three nights before meeting Jackie and Jerry in New Orleans on May 15th.

We continue to eat and drink well and enjoy our days. We went to Guntersville for cocktails and dinner last evening and it was just okay. On Thursday we grilled steaks and they were great! Tonight we will go to Ma & Pa Vittles for dinner. This is a restaurant on the property here and it is only open on the weekends this time of year. The menu includes meatloaf, pork roast, beans, corn, bread, salad, and desert for $5 per person. If nothing else the price is right.

On Sunday Tippy and Patty will got to 11:00 mass and Mike and I will meet them at a Chinese restaurant for lunch at 12:15 or so. After lunch we will go to Wal-Mart and get some stuff we need and be prepared to head for Birmingham in the morning. This is only a 120-mile trip so we will leave late morning and arrive in early afternoon. More later from Birmingham so in the meantime be safe.

Alex in her favorite place.

A rainy morning in Langston

Langston, Alabama

We had an enjoyable ride yesterday to Langston, Alabama. This area is pretty remote but right on Lake Guntersville. The lake is over 69K acres and is formed by the Tennessee River being damned. We got off the Interstate north and west of Atlanta and began to trust our GPS systems, although we also followed along on the map just to be sure. We were traveling northwest on Alabama highway 35 and looking to turn on county road 67 which would take us to the RV Park. As we made the turn onto CR 67 we saw a sign that said bridge out in 12 miles and 9 miles to Langston.

Since we had already made the turn onto the road we were committed to continue until we could turn around. We drove to Langston and sure enough the sign was correct, the bridge was out and we had to go back. We turned around and drove the 9 miles back to highway 35 and continued into Scottsboro, AL where we caught highway 79 and headed back south on the other side of the lake. We finally found our way to the resort but not before we made another wrong turn and had to turn around again.

The resort ended up being very nice and we have a good view of the lake from our site. When you check in they don’t assign you to a site you just go and pick the one you want, as long as no one else was there first. Mike, Patty, and Tippy drove back into Guntersville to do some shopping while I set up our camp. When they returned we sat out and had a beer and then I grilled pork chops while the gals fixed the rest of the meal which consisted of scalloped potatoes, yellow squash, and a wonderful tomatoes and avocado salad with balsamic vinegar. Well it was delicious to say the least and we all ate way too much.

Today, Tuesday, we slept in a little and then drove to Langston for lunch. The restaurant was about 10 miles from here and just on the other side of the bridge from where we were yesterday. To get to the RV Resort from there we had to drive over 50 miles. We had a great lunch, hamburgers, chicken fingers, fries, and onion rings. We then drove to the Guntersville Lake State Park to look at the golf course. It looked pretty good so we will try to play it a couple of times in the next few days. It rained a little over night and some this am but it is clearing up this afternoon. It is supposed to rain again tomorrow but it seems to be moving out a little early so we might get a good day tomorrow.

I will post a picture of the lake from inside of the coach and a picture of Alex and I that Tippy took this morning. In case you haven’t discovered if you double click on the pictures they will appear larger and clearer and are easier to enjoy. We are considering altering our next few weeks here in Alabama to get closer to the ocean a little sooner. More about that later after we complete our plans, until next time be safe.