Thursday, May 7, 2009

Day 327 (Hillsville,VA)

We continue our rolling hills ride from Alabama through Georgia, South/North Carolinas, now in Virginia heading through West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey into New York. Last night we had lots and lots of rain but little lightening/thunder. We lost power about 10 or 11pm and flipped to our batteries that are solar charged. By morning, the power was back full force.

RVing full-time is a small world. This morning, Boots, Karma and I were heading out to “Aunt Bea’s” (yep from Mayberry RFD fame) for lunch when one of the camp workers stopped to chat. Seems he remembered us from our stay in Summerdale, AL. We were parked right next to each other. Which reminded me. When we were in Mesa, Arizona at Fiesta at Val Vista RV Park we were in a row of Alaskans from Anchorage and Kenai and in Quartzsite, Arizona at Holiday Palms RV Park we met fellow travelers from Juneau.

Today’s ride around the country hillside, we encountered our first deer since the Mule Deer in Quincy, CA. This was a small one but we think it was full grown and quickly got out of the roadway. We also ran into a local Christian hate message on a billboard 6’x8’ that said “ABOMINATION Homosexuality is unnatural inhuman perverse wickedness Call 800.309.0092” sponsored by the Omega Coalition Church.