Its Monday night and tomorrow we trek North through Florida, Alabama and Georgia to Atlanta kinda like Sherman...just diagonally backwards from his route...and just not burning everything in front of us. But with 10,000 pounds behind us just stay our of our way!
Saturday morning we pulled out of San Marcos in the fog and headed Eastward through the beautiful hill country of Texas. Lovely rolling country full of pin oaks. Made it through that godawfull city of Houston where we lived for 7 years. Its a large metastasis on the Southeastern end of Texas that now reaches clear to Beaumont on the East and 50 miles to its West. As usual we hit construction in the city and ended up on the 610 Loop - the freeway to nowhere. It too had construction and were delayed about an hour. Into Louisiana where the land is beautiful but the roads are from Hell. In some places I had to drive at 45MPH due to the roughness of the road. Kept thinking "This is it!" We are going to blow the hitch at any time. But we made it through and arrived Lafayette (375 miles) about 4 PM. Lovely campground around a beautiful lake ...probably full of alligators just waiting for the Senior Citizens that were walking their 4 legged babies to just slip up so they could have a little appetizer. Too tired that evening so we didn't even unhitched and go for dinner. Homemade margaritas...the Best.
Sunday morning we pulled out at 9AM (we just don't have the knack yet for these 6AM pullouts) and headed down I-10 towards Mobile, Alabama. Drove nearly 30 miles across the swamps of LA and into Alabama. Alabama had lovely countryside, very polite people and of course the Gulf. Went through Mobile and the tunnel and soon arrived in Florida. We arrived at Navarre Beach just West of Fort Walton Beach, Fl about 4:30 PM (350 miles). Had a golf cart escort to our site (We are noobies you know...) and quickly pulled in, but then had to give the camp host a tour of the Airstream (I've always wanted to have one of these...these are the most beautiful trailer...Gee it looks brand new). Went to dinner across the street at the East Side Crab House. Wonderful mussels, fried shrimp and crab cakes. BUT, horrendous Margaritas. Sooo bad that I had to bring it to the attention of the waitress. Not sure what they were mixing with the tequila - either powdered lemon drink or watered down yuck. The bartender came over and said we must be use to drinking top shelf margaritas. Yes, that was what we ordered..."Well in that case here is a shot of Grand Marnier that I forgot to add".....didn't help. The Key Lime pie was superb!!
Today we spent the day revisiting Ft Walton Beach where Judy lived as a child (Yrs 8 - 11). After a wonderful and high caloric breakfast at the Broken Egg Cafe (crab cakes, eggs, grits, etc) , we went to her neighborhood and drove past her home, then her elementary school and then went to her beautiful old church, St Simons on the Sound (literally on the Gulf). Later we hit the beach with its beautiful powdered sand beaches and clear blue waters. The weather had cleared up in the afternoon and we truly enjoyed out 2 hour walk in the mid-70's. We ended the day with a beautiful sunset and then headed back to our trailer where I tried out our new grill for the first time with great steaks complements of Christopher and a bottle of Penfolds Bin 128 Shiraz. Have added some more pictures to the blog site.
Tomorrow in Atlanta I have to do my first trailer back up into a camp site at Stone Mountain....!!! God be with me.
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