Florida–Alabama - Mississippi

There are special days each year we all celebrate.  Well, maybe we all don’t celebrate the same days but some days just need to be celebrated.  Our anniversary was one of those days and all three of us decided to celebrate at Outback.  Sandi arrived with balloons and gifts.  It was a nice evening indeed! 

That was also the day the FedEx truck showed up with the new little 11.6” travel notebook I had ordered.  It also brought the separate 8GB memory module so that I could upgrade it from the currently installed 4GB to 8GB.   With about 7 screws to remove the back cover it only took about 15 minutes to make the exchange.   Now what in the world am I going to do with the tablet I was using?  I guess time will tell on that one.  

Saturday was our last full day in the Pensacola area or in Florida for that matter.  What’d we do?  Well, we went back to the dog races and I wasted $15 on foolish bets while we downed yummy appetizers.   Sandi was the only real winner of the afternoon.  She walked out with 50 cents  in winnings plus the $20 I spotted her with. 

We certainly enjoyed being with Sandi.  For the last couple of weeks, she had been sleeping on our couch.  We enjoyed having her!  It was time to move and Sunday was departure day.  We didn’t have a long drive planned as we only had a distance of about 115 miles to go.  

Within about 20 miles we were in Alabama and another 60 miles or so we crossed over into Mississippi. It felt good to get on the road again.

 

 

-- Ocean Springs Elks RV lot

Our target destination for the day was the Elks at Ocean Springs, MS.  Actually, that was poor planning on my part.   Ocean Springs was off the beaten track, a long slow road to anywhere,  It was just a parking lot with electric only.  Since we didn’t top the tank off with water when we pulled out of Pensacola, we needed water.  We should have gone on to the Biloxi Elks. Well, that’s where we eventually decided to go.   We moved twelve miles farther and settled in for the night at the Biloxi Elks.  It’s in a great location and just across the road from the beach.

Biloxi Elks RV --------   

  

Biloxi is a very busy beach town.  Tourists flock there not only for the gorgeous beaches but for all the casinos.  There are a lot of those.  There’s also a lot to see. 

One place I did want to visit was Beauvoir.  That is the home of Jefferson Davis and the Presidential Library in Biloxi.  There is so much history to absorb when visiting these Presidential libraries.  I read a little about the Jefferson house and library before we visited.  Some folks refuse to view this place because he was president of the Confederacy.   Some of my ancestors fought for the Confederacy and some fought for the Union.   History is just that, history.  It happened.  We can’t erase it.  We can only learn from it.  

It seems we’re again in the path of another storm heading our way.  We’ve certainly had more than our share of them this year.  We figured we could sit in Mississippi until it passes or we could head on into Louisiana and sit for a few days while it passes.  What’d we opt to do?  Louisiana, here we come.

‘Tis life on the road.