A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 191 miles from Adel, Georgia to Pine Mountain, Georgia.
Author: David
Travel from Adel to Pine Mountain, Georgia
We drove our coach 191 miles, about four hours of driving, from Adel, Georgia to Pine Mountain, Georgia.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:
An interactive map, with potential stops marked:
Departing the state park:
A stop to take out some garbage:
Bye lake:
Joining I-75 north:
A cute small fiver:
“Georgia for Peanuts”:
Separate minimum speed signs really confused our Mobile Eye warning device:
A large rest area:
Paladin sat on the dash during the rest stop, and stayed there until we got back on the freeway, then jumped down:
“Cotton” water tower:
A stop opportunity that we didn’t use, but would have worked for us; a business parking lot:
Waiting for a train:
An interesting building in Reynolds, Georgia:
Fun with zoom:
Entering FD Roosevelt State Park:
Uphill in the park:
The visitor center:
Road to the campground:
Lake:
Our site:
Reed Bingham State Park
We stayed at Reed Bingham State Park in Adel, Georgia. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A nice state park with a lake and dam.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-03-10
- Check out: 2024-03-17
- 7 nights
Weather:
- Mostly cloudy; one day with rain
- High temps ranging between 62-81°F, lows around 41-61°F
- Negligible wind, gusts to 19 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train noise
- A little neighbor noise (kids)
Site:
- #33, pull-through, gravel
- Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
- Mostly level; used hydraulic leveling
- Gravel driveway about 150 feet long by about 15 feet wide
- Leaf-covered ground between sites about 50 feet (front and back; nothing on side)
- Driver side to road about 25 feet
- Picnic table
- Fire pit
- Lantern hook
- Mostly clean site
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, somewhat inconveniently located
- 50 PSI water, somewhat inconveniently located
- Good sewer connection, somewhat conveniently located (2 10-foot pipes needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 20 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 50 ms ping
- Verizon: 25 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 70 ms ping
- AT&T: 30-80 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up, 50-90 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters only in a central location
- Mini golf
Our review on Campground Reviews:
A nice state park with a lake and dam
Nice large sites, not all 50A or FHU, so plan accordingly. We were in site 33 in loop 2, which was a large pull-through site under the trees. A pleasant walk down to the lake and dam and several easy, short hikes in the park. We would definitely stay here again. We camped at Reed Bingham State Park in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
Nice side view from our coach:
Utilities:
Our first visit to Georgia, so time to add its sticker to our coach (the older ones are so faded!):
Other sites:
Bathrooms:
Little lending library:
Mini golf:
Playground:
Nature path:
Bat box?
Kids fishing ponds:
No swimming, alligators present:
Stage:
Pond:
Boat ramp:
Lake:
Ducks:
Dam from bridge:
Flooded:
A GIF of the dam:
The water level after the dam was very high due to rain:
Later in the week, a lower level:
A nice state park. We’d be happy to stay here again.
Video: Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 235 miles from Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia.
Travel from Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia
We drove our coach 235 miles, about four hours of driving, from Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:
An interactive map, with potential stops marked:
Rain coming off the slide topper:
A line to leave TTO:
Citrus Tower:
Heading north on Florida’s Turnpike:
Rest stop:
A busy foodcourt:
The Villages golf cart bridge:
I-75:
A nice colored Prevost bus:
Motorcycles and wildflowers:
This car was going very slowly, with a flat tire. Just pull over!
Our coach in traffic cams:
Paladin at a rest stop:
“Thank you for visiting Florida”:
“Welcome to Georgia”:
Reed Bingham State Park:
Dam:
Arriving at our site:
Thousand Trails Orlando RV Resort
We stayed at Thousand Trails Orlando RV Resort in Clermont, Florida. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A second visit to TTO, the flagship Thousand Trails park.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-03-05
- Check out: 2024-03-10
- 5 nights
Weather:
- Mostly cloudy, some rain
- High temps ranging between 78-85°F, lows around 59-66°F
- Negligible wind, gusts to 21 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train noise
- Some neighbor noise, dogs
- Distant fireworks from Disney some evenings
Site:
- Mako 11, back in, asphalt
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
- A little unlevel, high on right; used hydraulic leveling
- Asphalt driveway about 45 feet long (plus about 30 feet of gravel behind that) by about 17 feet wide
- Weedy grass between sites about 12 feet
- Picnic table
- No fire pit
- A bunch of trash on site
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 45 PSI water, conveniently located
- Loose sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 55 Mbps down, 5-7 Mbps up, 36 ms ping
- Verizon: 18-25 Mbps down, 15 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
- AT&T: 0.1 Mbps down, 0.01 Mbps up, 500 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters only in a central location
- Package delivery to office, for $5 per package (we got a local mailbox)
We’ve done a review on Campground Reviews for TTO before, so didn’t bother doing it again.
Campground map; our site this time was in the narrow strip on the left side, above the X-ed out section:
An interactive map:
Our site; a quiet area of the park, one that would be a good choice for a longer stay:
Swamp near our site:
Cabin near our site:
Other sites:
We enjoyed some Chinese food from the local takeout restaurant:
Sunset:
Video: Disney World to Clermont, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 52 miles from Disney World, Florida to Clermont, Florida, including a picture-in-picture from the 360 camera on the truck being towed behind the coach.
Travel from Disney World to Clermont, Florida
We drove our coach just 52 miles, about an hour of driving, from Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground in Disney World, Florida to Clermont, Florida.
It would actually take less than half an hour to go from Disney World to TTO (our destination), but check out time from Fort Wilderness was 11:00, and check in at TTO is very strictly not before noon, so we drove a longer route, with a fuel stop, to kill some time.
We’re planning to do this again next year, so next time we might instead wait in the Fort Wilderness overflow parking area, and go direct.
Here’s a map showing our route:
An interactive map:
Leaving the Fort Wilderness campground; we drove separately to a hitch/unhitch area, and toaded up there:
This is the overflow parking area, which might be a better place to kill half an hour, if there’s available space:
Passing the Fort Wilderness entrance:
Leaving the Disney World bubble; it’s been nice:
A Mickey-shaped power pole:
Fuel stop:
Our DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid, an additive to reduce pollutants) tank was about half full, but the DEF nozzle in our fuel lane was out of order, so we bought a Blue DEF box (for the first time):
Plane:
FL-33 highway:
Our destination, Thousand Trails Orlando:
TTO gate:
Unlike most Thousand Trails parks, at TTO arrivals go to a central area to await your turn to pick a site from a list of available ones. Since we arrived a bit after noon, there was a line of RVs waiting to get to that area:
We untoaded there:
Following our coach to a site:
Replacing solar fuse with breaker
As followers of this blog may recall, we had a fuse between our solar panels and the solar controller:
I had an issue where that fuse blew a few times, possibly due to our extra solar panels putting out too much power. The most recent time I replaced it with a 30 amp fuse:
That didn’t end so well — a few months later, that fuse melted. Perhaps cheap junk, I don’t know; it should just blow, not melt. It set off our smoke detector, so could have been much worse:
I considered replacing the fuse holder, but figured I needed a better solution. I decided to replace it with a circuit breaker, so if it is over-current again it’ll just pop instead of blow or burn.
I needed a short length of wire to connect it, so went to the nearby Lowes for wire, using 8 gauge wire, the same as used elsewhere in the coach:
That was an adventure in itself; the guy who helped us wasn’t familiar with wire cutting, but he figured it out.
I connected a short length of that wire to the breaker:
I then drilled some holes for the wires above the solar controller:
And reconnected the controller to that wire:
Here’s the breaker installed, and preparing to re-mount the controller:
The completed breaker and controller (with the solar pulling in 14.4 amps):
Here’s hoping this solution will prove satisfactory!
Disney World: Animal Kingdom
Finally, we spent a day at Disney’s Animal Kingdom park, which is part theme park, part zoo.
The central Tree of Life:
Avatar land:
Africa:
Jenn likes collecting the pressed pennies:
African safari:
Lunch:
Train:
Snack:
Tortoise:
The Tree of Life; if you look closely, it’s covered with animal sculptures:
The backside of water:
One day was enough to see everything we were interested in at this park. Worth a visit, but probably not a re-visit.