A silent 360° timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 155 miles from Ozark, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida. Drag to look around anywhere while playing the video.
Month: February 2025
Ho-Hum RV Park
We stayed at Ho-Hum RV Park in Carrabelle, Florida. (Campground Reviews listing.)
Our second stay here, again over the holidays. Still one of our favorite RV parks.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-12-22
- Check out: 2025-01-12
- 21 nights
Weather:
- Mostly sunny, some drizzle
- High temps 50-69°F, lows 33-62°F
- Some windy days, gusts to 39 MPH
Noise:
- Some highway noise
- No train horn noise
- Some neighbor noise: dogs, and some kids (this is really not a place for kids, but weekenders will be weekenders)
Site:
- #45A, pull-in, gravel
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach
- Somewhat level site; high in front and passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
- Gravel driveway about 55 feet long by 22 feet wide
- Just gravel between sites
- Picnic table
- One tree
- Clean site
- Elevation 10 feet, front facing SE
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 30 PSI water, conveniently located
- Good sewer connection, conveniently located (less than 1 10-foot pipe needed)
- Dangerously fluctuating power for a day due to a corroded connection; used generator until fixed
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 27-55 Mbps down, 11 Mbps up, 35 ms ping
- Campground Wi-Fi: 7-11 Mbps down, 0.5-3 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 55 ms ping
- AT&T: 6-28 Mbps down, 0.05-0.12 Mbps up, 90 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Waterfront (gulf)
- Package delivery to office
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Hidden Gem on the Forgotten Coast
This was our second stay here, and I would happily come back again and again. There’s no better view than watching the water and gulls from the front of our coach. The atmosphere is laid-back and inviting, and the staff is helpful and friendly. There was a power issue part of the way through our stay, but they kept us updated on the status of repairs and understood when we needed to run our generator during the outage. This is not the beachfront place for partying and carrying on; it is the beachfront place for quiet contemplation and chilling. We camped at Ho-Hum RV Park in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
With RVs on either side, as it was most of the time (often a trailer on the driver side, which is preferred over a motorhome, since their living area is away from us; fortunately we didn’t have a trailer on the passenger side, which would have been facing us):
View from our site:
View out our windshield:
We enjoyed watching the various birds, including sandpipers, pelicans, cranes, ducks, and others:
Paddling:
Gentle waves:
Foggy:
Sunset:
Partway through our stay (on New Year’s Eve) our Power Watchdog reported electrical issues, saying the voltage was dangerously low or high (actually both), and neutral reversed:
I wasn’t sure if it was just us or a wider issue, but talked with some neighbors who also had the issue. So after further diagnostics and talking with the RV park owners, I unplugged the power, and we used the generator. The next evening (New Year’s Day), the electrical company came out and repaired a corroded pigtail; hazards of a waterfront RV park!
The seawall and sandy strip in front of our site:
Other sites:
Dog park and beach area:
Entrance:
Bathrooms and such:
Laundry room:
Activity center, where packages are delivered:
Fishing pier:
You can see our coach near the center:
We’d be happy to stay here again in the future.
Video: Ozark, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 155 miles from Ozark, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida.
Travel from Ozark, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida
We drove our coach 155 miles, about three hours of driving, from Ozark, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida. Our last travel day of 2024.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:
An interactive map:
US-231 South:
Lots of routes:
National Peanut Festival:
Big peanut:
“Welcome to the Free State of Florida”, and “Photo Opportunity at Welcome Center”:
“Campbellton, Gateway to Florida”:
Entering I-10 East:
Rest area, our only stop for this trip:
Blountstown mural:
Crossing Apalachicola River, where we entered Eastern Time Zone:
CR-67, a little narrow, but fine:
Lake Morality Road, also narrow, but only a couple of miles:
Arriving at our destination for the rest of 2024, Ho-Hum RV Park:
Following the coach to our site:
Arriving in our site:
Extra pantry shelf
While in Red Bay we had Cody Poores of Cody’s Custom Cabinets do a few tweaks for us. One was a minor tweak to a shelf in a bedroom cupboard, to reduce the size of the lip on it. Another was to add an extra shelf in the upper pull-out pantry next to our fridge.
Here’s the pantry drawer as it came from the factory:
Since we use it mostly for cans, there was enough room for another shelf. So Cody made one that matches the existing ones:
The extra storage capacity is very useful!
Taking a week off
We are heading into the Disney World bubble next week, and for that reason and since the blog posts are fast catching up to real-time due to staying in one place for multiple weeks recently, I’ve decided to take a week off from the blog.
So, no new Sinclair Trails blog posts next week. The next post will be on the 17th.
In the meantime, enjoy some cat pics.
Shower soap dispensers
Tweak Thursday: we added body wash / shampoo / conditioner dispensers on the wall of our shower:
Ozark / Fort Rucker KOA Journey
We stayed at Ozark / Fort Rucker KOA Journey in Ozark, Alabama. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A one-night stop on the way south. KOA Journeys are usually an easy choice when we don’t want to untoad.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-12-21
- Check out: 2024-12-22
- 1 night
Weather:
- Sunny
- High temp 51°F, low 30°F
- A little wind, gusts to 15 MPH
Noise:
- Some highway noise
- Occasional nearby train horn noise
- Negligible neighbor noise
Site:
- #19, pull-through, concrete
- Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t, since only one night
- Somewhat level site; high on driver side and back; used hydraulic leveling, since on concrete
- Concrete driveway about 60 feet long by 10 feet wide
- 16 feet to neighbors on both sides
- Picnic table on concrete patio
- Some tall trees
- Clean site
- Elevation 330 feet, front facing West
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 65 PSI water, conveniently located
- Didn’t use the sewer connection, but it was conveniently located, with two ports
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 363-421 Mbps down, 12 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
- AT&T: 55 Mbps down, 1-2 Mbps up, 55 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: not used
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Pool
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Convenient stop
We stayed one night on our way from Red Bay to Florida. This was a very convenient in-and-out place to stay. The friendly and helpful staff guided us to our spot and made sure we were good to go. There was a bit of road and train noise, but not too bad. Our site was a long enough pull-through that we didn’t need to disconnect our tow vehicle or fuss with positioning. The only downside is if you’re headed south when you leave, you have to wait a while for a decent break in the traffic as there isn’t a merge lane across the divided highway. We camped at Ozark / Fort Rucker KOA Journey in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
Other sites:
A nice little pond area:
A decent one-night stop.
Video: Red Bay to Ozark, Alabama motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 288 miles from Red Bay, Alabama to Ozark, Alabama.
Travel from Red Bay to Ozark, Alabama
We drove our coach 288 miles, about five hours of driving, from Red Bay to Ozark, Alabama. (With lots of Paladin pics.)
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:
An interactive map:
A video of Paladin getting pushed by the slide-out coming in while we were preparing the leave; he didn’t care:
Goodbye Red Bay Acres:
SR-19:
I-22 East:
Lunch stop:
Back on I-22 East, with Paladin on the dash:
“Break the drive if sleepy”:
Rest area:
Paladin on the dash again:
“End higher fines”… sounds like a protest sign:
Fuel stop:
Some women admiring Paladin at the fuel stop:
US-231 South:
KOA:
Guided to our site: