Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Gulf Shores, Alabama

Weather consistently warm high 70's to 80's and nights in the 60's

Flowers are in bloom along all sidewalks
 A couple of weeks have already flown by while staying in the Gulf Shores and we realize we need to think about heading home!
Soon our extended health care coverage will be running out and we need to file our income taxes in Ontario.  Well and then there will be doctor checkups, dental, hair and a small pile of mail that will be sitting at the farm for us to go through.   Funny when you live in a motorhome you would be surprised how very little snail mail you do receive.  We don't really have any bills to speak of... insurance and licenses that come annually and that is it.  We get all credit card, satellite tv, investments, cell phone via the internet.  Mom and Dad will be happy to see us back in the neighbourhood and we will be glad to see them too:)  They have wintered well again with us away.

Along the coastal highway in Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Perdido Beach there are the most beautiful high rise condos.  This one always draws me in.... can you imagine the views from these suites???  The building appears to be completely glass all around.

We met some very experienced RV'rs in the park who recommended this dive of a place to eat seafood down in Perdido Key so away we went to find out.  Oh my their were not kidding it was a dive however the food was quite good.  Shrimp and Crab Bisque with lots of hunks of seafood in it and Royal Reds that are a early spring shrimp that are only caught from the gulf around to the outerbanks in very deep water - up to 1/2 a mile!  They are very red when cooked and extremely sweet.  They serve them in one piece so the eyes are giving you a once over, ha ha.... and then you peel them and dip them in butter, just like a tiny lobster. 

Monday, April 1, 2013

Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World

March 31/2013   Sunny, 77 , low of 64

We were out for lunch today and riding up towards Mobile when we decided to stop at the Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World.  We see them all over on the interstates but had never been to one.  This is a BOYS AND HIS TOYS kind of place.  Our friend JJ is an avid fisherman and we know this is like Disneyworld to him.  So why not go in and see what is so special?
Smoking hot Dune Buggy

Well first of all we could not get inside without sitting on all the outdoor toys!!!
And we will take one of these~~~
And one of these !!!!!
And one of these!~~~~~~~  ok this is crazy

Gulf Shores, Alabama

March 23 till?   79 and sunny, 61 at night
We remembered a beautiful RV park we stopped by briefly last winter and decided it would be an ideal spot to come back to in one travel day from Hot Springs, Arkansas.  Weather is supposed to be quite warm so we are happy.  Bella Terra RV Resort.  It is ownership style class A motorhome park (no fifth wheels, trailers) and you will find the prices very interesting.  Lakefront lots sell for $160,000, Pull Thrus at $150,000.  Just like owning a condo you purchase your lot and also pay a monthly $190.00 home owners fee to keep up the amenities.  We could not fathom why you would buy into this however; it is all sold and the owners rent them out to any transients via the office administration and internet on line bookings.  At that price we would have to stay every winter for the next 25 years to break even*?*    We asked our neighbours who own their site what brought them here... their story was they lost their home in Hurricane Katrina.  They decided to relocate here with a brand new motorhome and purchased their lot.  They are late 60's and Full time RVers.
clubhouse, infinity pool, hot tub



our pull thru (no trailer allowed they took it to a separate area) 
lot for sale at $180,000 has 1 bedroom cabana + galley kitchen + bathroom
landscaped back in lot
Billy in the hot tub