While I was up there, I found it very satisfying to help in completing the work on this house. It was a cute little house in a very quiet neighborhood with lots of trees away from the city life. Unfortunately, I only worked with them for 2 days but I wanted to stay longer and I wanted to get their sooner but was unable to do so! I stayed in Mobile, Alabama and drove over to another area (I'll fill the name in later). I was equipped with my work boots and a smile and ready to learn. I spent most of the time caulking the exterior siding, interior around the electrical outlets and re-doing the vinyl siding on the front porch ceiling with another volunteer. The people there were all very nice. There were only 10 of us working and I was the only female, of course.. Construction.. Lol. I'm use to it, I work in the construction industry. The supervisors who work for Habitat were very nice. It was such a pleasant place to do work on my vacation. Yes, I chose to work on my vacation and I would do it again. Next time I would like to go for a week but at least I was there longer than the local volunteers. Lol!
I'll be honest, Mobile is not very pretty but Downtown Mobile was gorgeous! That area has homes that look they could get up and walk away at any moment. Such personality showing in these well thought out huge homes. Such love and care was put into building them and no one does that anymore! I left Saturday morning and drove up through Montgomery, Al over to Atlanta, Ga and then down to Savannah, Ga where I spent time walking around on their Riverfront. Cute little area. It had restaurants, shops and nice architectural buildings. I plan to go back to Savannah Georgia to stay a few days, maybe next year around the same time.
Then I left on Saturday night and went back home to Florida since I had a 2 hour drive from my home to pick up my son and then drive 2 hours back!
I highly recommend semi-planned road trips with purpose!
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