A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 155 miles from Ozark, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida.
Author: David
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:
Girard replaced window awning
In December 2023 the big window awning on the passenger side of our coach broke; it slammed open when extending it, and wouldn’t retract anymore. We got it repaired when in Red Bay, Alabama (home of Tiffin) in March 2024; see this previous post about that issue and repair.
Unfortunately, that repair didn’t last; after a few months it started making clunking noises when extending, and wouldn’t automatically retract. We could still use it, as I could push it back up and it’d stay retracted, but it wasn’t ideal.
So we made an appointment for when we were back in Red Bay in December with the Girard Awning Service Center next to Red Bay Acres (where we were staying), and got them to install a replacement.
Since the old awning was from a different manufacturer, they needed to do a few adjustments. They filled the holes from the old awning mounting with rivets, and painted them, after the old awning was removed (look closely just below the black slide topper rail):
Here’s the new window awning installed:
Painted rivets from the old awning arm mount; not an entirely tidy paint job, but only visible in certain light:
The left side is a bit tidier:
They added an extra cord bracket (used to hold the awning open); they asked if we wanted to remove the old one, but we said it’s fine to leave it; we could use it to have a shallower angle. The lower one is the new one:
The new awning open:
Definitely a nicer product. We did consider replacing the two on the driver side too, so they’d match. But they are still functional, and it wouldn’t be cheap, so we decided to leave them as-is.
Red Bay food and shopping
Some food and shopping around Red Bay, Alabama.
Casa Fiesta Mexican Grill, not bad Mexican food:
Piggly Wiggly grocery store, pretty basic:
Holiday lights:
Mia Marlie’s Hometown Pizza, fairly good and inexpensive:
Cardinal Drive-In, much like Sonic, but better:
Big Star grocery store, much nicer than Piggly Wiggly, and lots of super-tasty treats (of which we stocked up!):
Happy Hollow, home-goods and outdoors stuff, we always get some cat toys there:
Red Bay is a small town, but has some good food and shopping options.