Today, Sunday afternoon October 7th , finds us in Demopolis, Alabama at the Demopolis Yacht Basin and boy is it a stretch to call it a Yacht Basin We are here because it’s the only marina period. After fueling ourselves and docking ourselves, we took the loaner car to see the thriving metropolis of Demopolis. Enter Big Blue which was a navy Lincoln Continental Town Car. It doesn’t look so bad from the outside but the inside was dirty and trashed. All knobs were missing. The windshield wipers kept cutting on, the air conditioning was broken and the windows on my side (of course the first mate’s side) did not go down. And it was hot. (90 degrees plus). We laughed all the way to Walmart where we went to buy groceries and a newspaper. We asked the checkout girl for six quarters in change for the newspaper machine for the Sunday paper and that totally threw her. She said, “I didn’t know the paper cost $1.75” !!
Travel today was rather routine with trees etc along the river bank, until we came to one area where the shoreline was lined with white limestone in an area called The Cliffs of Epps. Quite interest and different.
I figured out today that so far, we have traveled 693 miles in two weeks, but of course, five of those days we did not travel at all for various reasons.
Tomorrow, it’s off to Bobby’s Fish Camp, the only place to stop before reaching Mobile
Bay. Bobby’s is a run of 98 miles and then Mobile Bay is another 100 miles from there.
Stay tuned!
The first mate
Car
Cliff of Epps
I figured out today that so far, we have traveled 693 miles in two weeks, but of course, five of those days we did not travel at all for various reasons.
Tomorrow, it’s off to Bobby’s Fish Camp, the only place to stop before reaching Mobile
Bay. Bobby’s is a run of 98 miles and then Mobile Bay is another 100 miles from there.
Stay tuned!
The first mate
Car
Cliff of Epps
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