Apr 4 - Gordo, AL and Lake Lurleen State Park

  We went for a 2 1/2 mile hike on the Ridge Trail this morning.  A very nice 4 mile loop trail through the woods, following the hillside ridge.  We only walked a mile in and turned around and came back, as we needed to get back into town for the internet, for another Peter post.  But it was a lovely hike.
  We have decided to stay here at this State Park campground for the entire month of April.  It is very isolated, is a beautiful area, has lots of hiking trails and places to hang out around the lake, with very few other people around.  It feels very safe.  The only down side is the lack of any internet, which makes us drive into town and hang out there, in and around the car. 
  Tiffin has rescheduled our Tiffin RV service twice now, and they aren't saying yet when they will reopen.  Hopefully before the end of the month.  If so, we will drive the RV up there, spend the night, and return the next day after servicing it.  They are only an hour or so away.  By the end of the month, we will have a better sense of what our return route should look like.
  Instead of going into Tuscaloosa, we decided to drive north a bit and find a "mobile office" spot in the smaller town of Gordo, AL.  So we are hanging out in the CVS parking lot, with great internet, and a shady tree. 
  Researched how to make your own face mask online.  They say the best fabric is a polypropolene reusable grocery bag.  Cotton, apparently, retains moisture, and thus grows bacteria.  The grocery bag does not.  How to sew from an RV -- an interesting challenge.

Lake Lurleen Ridge Trail hike photos:

Gordo, AL "mobile office" photos: