{"id":386,"date":"2018-08-08T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2018-08-08T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T03:01:08","slug":"days-26-27-28-dallas-to-mobile-alabama-to-the-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Days 26, 27 &#038; 28 Dallas to Mobile, Alabama to The Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are HOME! &nbsp;Our route took us a long day to Dallas the first night. &nbsp; On the way Rhonda found us a fantastic steak place in Decatur, Texas<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4942-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4942-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4942-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4943-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4943-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4943-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4943-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4943-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sweetie Pie&#8217;s<\/em> (that&#8217;s him on the wall&#8230;)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4938.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-387 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4938-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4938-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4938-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4938-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4938-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Anyway, the steak was um, um good! And so was Rhonda&#8217;s salad!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4939-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4939-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4939-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4939-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4939-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4941-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4941-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4941-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day was another long day to Mobile, Alabama. &nbsp;We passed through a horrific lightening storm outside of Baton Rouge, LA but came through fine. &nbsp;After a good night&#8217;s sleep it was up and on our way back HOME to THE Villages. &nbsp;WE MADE IT!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4946-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4946-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4946-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4946-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4946-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>SOME STATISTICS&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 30 days we drove <strong>9,422 MILES<\/strong> &#8211; in a MINI Convertible<\/li>\n<li>We consumed 248 gallons of gas &#8211; maybe we&#8217;ll look into the new electric MINI before the next trip<\/li>\n<li>Stayed at 17 different sites &#8211; most for one night, twice we stayed for 4 nights&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Visited 6 National Parks, 1 National Memorial (Mt. Rushmore) and 1 Navajo Nation Tribal Park (Monument Valley)<\/li>\n<li>23 States<\/li>\n<li>10 loads of laundry<\/li>\n<li>6 visits to Walmart and Target to restock on apples, bananas and water<\/li>\n<li>5 Car washes<\/li>\n<li>Zero tickets<\/li>\n<li>1 slightly chipped windshield (damn stone!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We did upload some Photo albums to our various blog posts below with additional photos. &nbsp;If you care to take a look at some more photos from the various parks we visited, scroll down and take a look. &nbsp;We hope you enjoyed our travel blog. &nbsp;We had a great trip but there&#8217;s no place like HOME.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is an Album of all our photo galleries from the trip&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are HOME! &nbsp;Our route took us a long day to Dallas the first night. &nbsp; On the way Rhonda found us a fantastic steak place in Decatur, Texas Sweetie Pie&#8217;s (that&#8217;s him on the wall&#8230;)Anyway, the steak was um, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/?p=386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casey-2018-summer-trip"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NjUT-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caseyplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}