'BAMA March 11, 2012

Sunday

Welcome to Daylight Savings Time.  We awoke and thought it was 8:00 only to find out it was already 9:00.  We were thinking IN did not participate in DST, but it does.  So we lost 2 hours overnight.  The campground fee was $31.78 for the night.  Oops, Bob's gps is still not working.  I volunteered to read the gps manual while we travel today but I don't think he wantedme to touch it again. 

Temperature this morning was 47 degrees and we noted a high of 72.  Diesel fuel is $4.15 per gallon with .06 discount for cash. 
We drove on I-65 through IN and into KY.  We saw an area that was damaged by recent tornadoes in the southern part of IN. Louisville has an interesting skyline with a mix of new and old architecture.  We could see Churchill Downs where the Kentucky Derby is run the first weekend in May.  I recently put that destination on my bucket list and we may just do that with Adventure Caravans as it is extremely hard to get tickets on your own. Louisville is where they make the bats that are used in major league baseball.  We also saw the KFC baseball stadium where LeRoy said the minor league team, the Louisville Cardinals, play ball.

Today we travel from IN to northern AL.  We don't plan to drive as many hours as we did yesterday.  Bob said he got his gps working as I merely turned it off last night.  Whew!

We spent the night in Cullman, Al, just north of Birmingham, at a Good Sam park.  We had another drive through site so we didn't have to disconnect the car.  The owner offered us his car to go into town to eat but we opted for a bottle of wine, hors de horves and a big salad.  We planned our route and stops for Monday and called it a night. LeRoy was fit to be tied when he discovered we couldn't get more than 5 channels on TV.  And they were religious channels no less.  Hey, we're in the bible belt.