Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Tuscaloosa AL
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First look at the new kitchen paint, December 4, 2008
Painting
You'll note the yellow I chose has a green cast to it. I like it. Maybe I'll pick up the green in some details.
This morning started out rainy and I decided to delay my departure for a few hours to see if the rain might break long enough to relieve of the need to dump the tanks in rain gear.
That gave me a chance to prime some more panelling in the kitchen. I was going to leave the dinette with it's original brown panelling, thinking it would be better looking like furniture. But I've come to loathe that darned panelling. I painted it! And the bathroom door too.
Night Camp
Wal-Mart Parking Lot in Tuscaloosa AL
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Tuscaloosa AL
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #715, 1501 Skyland Blvd E, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 - (205) 750-0823
This Wal-Mart is one of my favorite parking lots for overnight dry camping. There is good, level parking and access to lots of shopping and services useful to the traveler.
- Good level parking, reasonably quiet
- Books-a-Million & Michaels Craft store across the road
- U-Haul propane nearby, Lowe's and Home Depot 1 mile
- Major shopping centers nearby
- Verizon cell phone service is excellent
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service is excellent
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
The Value of Time
Time is the most valuable and finite commodity that any living thing has. Think about it, everything – you, me, people, plants, animals, even the Earth itself – has a limited and set amount of time. From the moment we come into existence, we begin an inevitable march to a final end. Even the age of our solar system exists in but a minute of time within the context of the history of the universe. The average human lifespan does not even register on that clock. With that said, in many ways, time is the very definition of life itself.