Day 206 was a lot of driving. While we had arrived in Georgia the night prior, we still had a long, long drive to get to Atlanta. We arrived in the early evening at a park in East Atlanta, in what seemed like a really nice and safe neighborhood. There were young kids running around, […]
The Florida Panhandle is in the northwest of Florida: a narrow strip of land with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, known for its beaches. We woke up and went for a walk around Corinne Jones Park that we'd parked next to overnight, but pee-ew!! Some poor wild animal like a raccoon must have […]
We'd stayed overnight next to a shrimping boat marina, but surprisingly it wasn't too busy in the morning (unless most shrimpers had left well before dawn and we'd just slept through it). We left the rural setting near Dauphin Island in Alabama, arriving soon in Mobile, a port city that's the second most-populous city in […]
Since our night was so quiet and peaceful, it was a bit of a surprise opening the RV door in the morning and realizing that the rest stop was filled with people! We soon headed to Gulfport, a city that sits on the Gulf of Mexico. We were there on the Monday of a long […]
After yesterday's "tiring tire tale", we needed a 4th person to come and inflate our spare tire so we could hit the road. It was a Sunday, but eventually someone came around 11am--and it turned out to be the father of the 3rd person who came last night operating the same tow truck company. The […]
Checking out of the New Orleans RV park we'd stayed in for the last 2 nights, we went straight to Mardi Gras World, a huge 300,000 square foot warehouse where floats are made for the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. Tours cost about $30 per adult, and it costs extra for parking onsite (and […]
While the weather in New Orleans had been hot and humid yesterday, since the RV park is by a marina, the temperatures here had been cooler, and today there would be rain throughout the day. We chilled out in the morning, and once some of the rain subsided, decided to leave Sheila in the coolness […]
We visited New Orleans few years ago for several days, so we'd seen some of the top tourist sites, including Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, Bourbon Street, the National WWII Museum, and we'd also been on a swamp tour. So while we'd revisit some of these places again, our focus would be on the newer […]
We'd slept near the city of Tuscaloosa in Alabama overnight, in the west of the state. Tuscaloosa is also home to the University of Alabama, which had a couple of quirky attractions, including "Goldie 1971", a giant rusting robot lying on the ground, created by a former student as an ode to Alabama's iron heritage. […]
We had parked on the fringes of a very busy Love's Truck Stop overnight, just squeezing into the entrance with enough room for just one other truck to park behind us along the curb. Despite this, we'd had a peaceful sleep, probably also because we were off to the side rather than sandwiched between other […]