2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 26

Day 26, Thursday, November 14, 2024, Falling Waters State Park, Chipley, FL - 126.6 Miles, 1,519.5 Miles for the Trip

While there was a bit of light rain overnight, it was damp but not raining as I pulled the utilities for the trailer around 9:30. I left Florence Marine State Park around 10:00. I probably should have held around longer since I gained an hour crossing into Alabama & Florida. Still, even though I pulled into Falling Waters before 12:00, my site was empty & I settled in. 

While setting my phone back to automatic for time zones fixed it & my watch, The laptop is a different animal. If I choose automatic and the Apple time server (the only one available) it insists that I'm still in eastern time. If I shut off automatic & choose a Chicago, a city I know is in the central time zone it still stays in eastern time. The only way I could set the correct time was to manually tell it the time. 

Light to medium rain for most of the drive, as well as when I was setting up. Now, at 12:30 the rain has mostly stopped. I'm in site 6, a short site that just fits the trailer & truck. Not all that level - I had to correct 3 1/2" side to side & lower the tongue 4" to level the trailer. The site is on fine gravel with water & electric, a picnic table & fire ring. Close to the bathrooms. With taxes & reservation fee it comes out to $29.30 per night for 4 nights. There is a Casita in the site next to mine.

Site 6

The Casita Next Door

After setting up I checked the internet speed - AT&T came out to 47.9Mbps down & 4.9Mbps up and since I have unlimited AT&T data, I didn't bother firing up the Verizon cell modem. It is nice not the have to wait for every page to crawl into existence.

After setting up I drove into Chipley & the local Walmart (3.5 miles away) for some supplies & to restock the freezer. I picked up a pizza that won't fit in the freezer (unless I get rid of everything across the top & door) so it will be tonight's early dinner.

Dinner was half a better goods Mushroom & Truffle Pizza.

More Tomorrow -