Breakfast with an Alligator

March 12, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

Date 3/1/2023 From the swamp tour we continued heading west, ended up driving 209 miles that day. We ended up in Eastern Texas, a few of the places we were looking at were closed due to hurricane damage, that’s the reason we drove so far that day. Along the way we made reservations at a …

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Swamp Tour

March 5, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

March, 1, 2023. We spent the night off the grid at Champagne’s Cajun Swamp Tours, Breaux Bridge, LA, a Harvest Host, then the next morning we took a swamp tour, among many other critters we found a nest of baby gators. The babies, the younger an alligator is the sharper their teeth. The End  

Vicksburg National Military Park – USS Cairo Museum – Emerald Mound

March 4, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

February 26 we drove over to Vicksburg MS to see the Vicksburg National Military Park. It was much larger than expected and one could spend a week or more walking around and reading all the sings and plaques. With in the park is a museum for the Civil War Ironclad U.S.S. Cairo which struck a …

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Catching up

March 3, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

No or very slow internet makes it hard to keep up! Date2/24/2023 We spent the night at Jeff Busby Campground for most of the 140 mile drive, it was sprinkling rain so while we pulled off at most of the stops we didn’t get out much. February 25, from Jeff  Busby we rolled on down …

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Clean bill of health

February 27, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

February 20 2023Mary, at her second Dr appointment, as hoped and expected, received her second clean bill of health so we cut out for the someplace south directly from her last appointment and spent the night at Tailwater Campground again. February 21 From there we’re headed for yet another attempt to drive the Natchez Trace …

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Hum, now what?

February 4, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

We managed to get 2 nights at St George Island State Park, but they were a few days away, so we spent 3 nights at Eastbank Campground, on Seminal Lake.  Then we spent 1 night at Wright Lake, arriving just before it started raining. Woke up to rain looking at the radar more was on …

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I’ve really been slacking

January 20, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

For the most part the weather has not been the best so we haven’t done to much that’s been note worthy. That and the fact that our cell service has been on the slow side with typically 1 bar trying to get pictures to upload and been a bit of a challenge. That’s my story …

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Fort Pickens Campground #2

December 29, 2022 / Rex / 0 Comments

Well, it took some time but the weather finally became warm enough to step outside with only a fur parka and not freeze solid, dang it was COLD!!!!! We didn’t do much because it was to cold to spend more than a few minutes outside, so not much to write about here. Most days we …

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Fort Pickens Campground

December 21, 2022 / Rex / 0 Comments

Tuesday, November 29, 2022, made our escape or so we thought. We spent 2 cold nights at Tailwater Campground which is just below the dam on Barron River Lake, which is way way down. When we made the reservations we didn’t catch that they had turned off the electricity. Not a problem for staying 1 …

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Museum of the Arkansa Grand Prairie

November 15, 2022 / Rex / 0 Comments

Friday, November 11, 2022, part 2. After leaving the Louisiana Purchase State Park we headed for the Museum of the Arkansa Grand Prairie, in Stuttgart, AR. It’s a Harvest Host Site and we spent the night in the parking lot. The museum has several rooms full of antiques from the area. Not a lot else …

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