Month: October 2016

28,297 miles  9:30AM  70°F In less than half an hour we were at the Pensacola Naval Air Station gate.  Stating our intention and showing our drivers licenses to the guard, we were quickly waved through to visit the National Naval Aviation Museum. This free museum blew us away. We ended up spending five hours wandering…

The trawler fleet was underway about 0530 here on Dauphin Island. I swear we could feel the vibration from across the road.  After breakfast we enjoyed hot showers, but I received two more mosquito bites. The bath house does not have screens! It appears there is a foundation and blocks next door for a new…

Sunrise made us very happy to have moved to a “front row” site at Buccaneer State Park.  Sunrise view from the van. Simply a field with hook-ups by the street, these sites do provide a great view and easy access to the gulf. Just cross the street and you are on the seawall. A small…

27,839 8:15 AM 61° F Underway from Natchez State Park 27,896 9:44 AM 73°F Checked in at the Louisiana Welcome Center. Reviewed the literature and costs of visiting New Orleans and decided against it this time. Halloween weekend is a “special event” with corresponding hikes in campsite fees. Beth isn’t feeling great and we’d like…

8:51 AM 64°F With clean clothes and a good night’s sleep we left Grand Gulf Military Park and traveled the final half-mile to the Mississippi River.  A sign illustrated the height of major floods through the years. An additional sign had been tacked onto the original so the 2011 flood could be added at a…

27,595 10:05 Back on the Trace, our first stop was at French Camp Historic Village. Morning mist was giving way to bright sunshine as we wandered through the complex. Donkeys and miniature horses were the only signs of life. Students and residents must have been elsewhere. The old school house at French Camp. 27,564 11:11AM…