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:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

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):

Our site

View from our site:

Our site

View out our windshield:

View out our windshield

We enjoyed watching the various birds, including sandpipers, pelicans, cranes, ducks, and others:

Birds

Birds

Birds

Birds

Paddling:

Paddling

Gentle waves:

Waves

Waves

Foggy:

Foggy

Sunset:

Sunset

Sunset

Night

Night

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:

Electrical issue Electrical issue

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!

Electrical repair

The seawall and sandy strip in front of our site:

Beach

Other sites:

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

Dog park and beach area:

Dog park and beach area

Entrance:

Entrance

Bathrooms and such:

Bathrooms and such

Laundry room:

Laundry room

Activity center, where packages are delivered:

Activity center, where packages are delivered

Fishing pier:

Fishing pier

Fishing pier

Fishing pier

You can see our coach near the center:

Fishing pier

We’d be happy to stay here again in the future.

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:

Route map

An interactive map:

US-231 South:

US-231 South

Lots of routes:

Lots of routes

National Peanut Festival:

National Peanut Festival

Big peanut:

Big peanut

“Welcome to the Free State of Florida”, and “Photo Opportunity at Welcome Center”:

Welcome to the Free State of Florida

“Campbellton, Gateway to Florida”:

Campbellton, Gateway to Florida

Entering I-10 East:

Entering I-10 East

Rest area, our only stop for this trip:

Rest area

Blountstown mural:

Blountstown mural

Crossing Apalachicola River, where we entered Eastern Time Zone:

Crossing Apalachicola River

CR-67, a little narrow, but fine:

CR-67

Lake Morality Road, also narrow, but only a couple of miles:

Lake Morality Road

Arriving at our destination for the rest of 2024, Ho-Hum RV Park:

Arriving at Ho-Hum RV Park

Following the coach to our site:

Following coach to our site

Arriving in 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:

Pantry shelves

Since we use it mostly for cans, there was enough room for another shelf. So Cody made one that matches the existing ones:

Pantry shelves

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.

Paladin and David

Paladin and water view

Paladin

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:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

Other sites:

Other sites

Other sites

A nice little pond area:

Pond

Pond

Pond

Pond

A decent one-night stop.

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:

Route map

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:

Goodbye Red Bay Acres

SR-19:

SR-19

I-22 East:

I-22 East

I-22 East

Lunch stop:

Lunch stop

Back on I-22 East, with Paladin on the dash:

Back on I-22 East, with Paladin on the dash

Paladin on the dash

“Break the drive if sleepy”:

Break the drive if sleepy

Rest area:

Rest area

Paladin on the dash again:

Paladin on the dash again

“End higher fines”… sounds like a protest sign:

End higher fines!

Fuel stop:

Fuel stop

Some women admiring Paladin at the fuel stop:

Some women admiring Paladin at a fuel stop

US-231 South:

US-231 South

KOA:

KOA

Guided to our site:

Guided to our site