After leaving Tallahassee (tummies full of good barbeque from Sonny's), we spent two nights on Mobile Bay in Alabama, waiting for the tornados to come, listening to weather radio and keeping our fingers crossed. It was a terrific storm and it was nice to be dry and warm inside the RoadTrek. The moonroof windows gave us a wonderful view of the lightning. Winds were too high to drive out on the next day.
On to Mississippi, where we “found” a campground at Waveland (near the Louisiana border) for Thursday night – what an adventure, as it was a campground that had been destroyed by Katrina and then rebuilt, but the road to get there had not! We drove very slowly along this shoreline road, where that were no homes or businesses – just bare cement pads, driveways to nowhere and concrete pilings sticking up in the air. Such devastation. The park had been under 28 feet of water, and most of the trees were dying.
Friday night, we crossed Louisiana, had a wonderful meal at Bills’ Seafood in Moss Points (shrimp, catfish, boudin balls, and rolls that were fried instead of baked). Our campground was not so wonderful – right on a swamp with strange facilities – it also is being rebuilt, so I guess we shouldn’t be critical. Carole says it looks like Pogo’s home (from the comic strip).
Leaving today for Texas, which will take us days to cross, but we are going to use our trip to see lots of things – heading toward Corpus Christi (and Padre Island), and then to San Antonio.
Wow, you two are making tracks! A friend of mine lived in Waveland when Katrina hit, the house she lived in was in that neighborhood you drove through and was destroyed. Humbling sights, huh?
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