Debris from Hurricane Michael on I-10 being Cleaned Up

We got up this morning at 7:00 and it was sunny and 42°. We had breakfast and while Mike disconnected the trailer from the hookups, I put the Keurig and other stuff that was on the kitchen counter away, put the slideout in and walked over to the dumpster to throw our garbage away. It was 8:35 when we left Madison Campground and headed west on I-10.

Once we got west of Tallahassee we started seeing the remains of the tree damage from Hurricane Michael last October. We had driven to Pensacola in mid-October and saw the damage left by Hurricane Michael. There were so many trees that had come down on I-10, that the trees were trimmed back to just within the lines for the shoulders.

Today we saw several crews cutting and clearing away the trees.

We stopped at a Rest Area that last October was closed because there were so many trees down. While we were at the Rest Area, Mike checked the temperature of the trailer's brake drums with a digital infrared thermometer and showed me how to do it. We had had one tire where the brake drum was hotter than the others, so Mike has been checking them periodically and so far everything's been fine.

We crossed the Apalachicola River

and a minute later we gained an hour in our day when we crossed into the Central Time Zone.

We stopped for gas at a Love's Truck Stop at Defuniak Springs ($3.149 a gallon) and then
had lunch at the Subway there before going on.

We arrived here at Styx River RV Resort at 2:00 Central Time and checked in. One of the workers took Mike around the campground in a golf cart to look at the available campsites. We had to unhitch the car today so we could level the trailer. We had to use leveling blocks on the driver side of the trailer and lower the front of the trailer in order to level it. 

Then Mike hooked up the electric, sewer and water connections.

Styx River RV Resort is a Coast to Coast campground and we are Coast to Coast members. We traded in our rewards points from a credit card several years ago and used those points to buy camping points with Coast to Coast. So we are staying here for free tonight. The campsite "costs" us 1,000 points for the night and we have 20,000 points in our account - that's 20 nights of free camping.

We drove 273 miles today. Tomorrow will be a longer driving day with over 300 miles.