2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 22

Day 22, Sunday, November 10, 2024 - Florence Marine State Park, Omaha, GA - 143.9 Miles, 1,392.9 Miles for the Trip

What is with Georgia house flies? Normal (at least for the rest of the country) house flies fly around, then land and sit for a bit. They may fly away as you sneak up on them, but eventually, the fly swatter wins. The fly in my trailer is nuts. All it does is zoom back & forth, never landing. Fast enough that you can't nail it mid air. It was driving me crazy trying to sit & read last night, worried that it was going to annoy me trying to get to sleep. No problem with sleeping - it never landed at that end of the trailer. Still, it was never in one place long enough for me to swat it so it is still in the trailer.

It finally was under 70°F overnight. Down to 65°F by morning. At home I'd find that too warm for sleeping, but after a couple of 71°F humid nights here in Georgia, it felt fine.

After breakfast I packed up the trailer and headed out by 10:30. Most of the drive was on US 280, mostly 2 land with passing zones every 15 - 20 miles. I stopped in a Walmart in Abbeville to restock the pantry & refrigerator. I arrived at Florence Marine State Park around 2:00, checked in and settled my bill (with a senior discount). I'm in site 6, which is back to back with site 7. There is no dividing line between the sites, so I just took up as much space as necessary to fit the truck & trailer, leaving more room for a larger trailer on site 7. Full hookups (although the sewer is too far away to be useful) on gravel/dirt for $33.83 per night. It is a marine state park because there are boat slips on the Walter F. George Reservoir as well as 43 sites for RVs.

Site 6

While my AT&T phone shows between 1 & 2 bars, there is no data on either my phone or the AT&T Nighthawk cell modem. Verizon shows 13.1Mbps down & .3Mbps up on the best check, but after that more like 1Mbps down & .4Mbps up. Again, like at Little Ocmulgee State Park, adding the pair of external antennas did not improve the speed. I have a TeleMed connection with a doctor tomorrow - we will see how that goes. I do have cell phone over WiFi turned on on the AT&T phone so it should be able to connect with the Verizon cell modem.

I attempted to upload the site photos, a small thumbnail at 12K & the large version at 384K. While they made it to my website, they took over 4 minutes to get there, something that usually takes seconds. I tried checking some web pages and this looks like this is a great campground to read either paperbacks or already downloaded Kindle books!

While it is 70°F outside & 72°F in the trailer with the MAXX fan barely turning over, it feels cool & comfortable, partly is because I've had 77°F days for the last couple of days, and because the humidity is down to 45%. While I doubt I'll run the furnace or electric heater, it will be nice not to need the AC to make the trailer comfortable.

Dinner was a Boston Market Chicken Pot Pie. I cooked it in my toaster oven rather than the trailer propane oven to keep from heating up the trailer as much. I know I can microwave it in the box, but I'm not impressed with the results so I'm sticking to real heat.

More Tomorrow -