Views from the Big Country: Our Summer Travels ~ New Orleans to...??? Savannah!!!

Thursday, June 2, 2016

We left New Orleans this morning unsure as to our destination. St. Augustine or Savannah? We're still waiting to see what develops with the predicted tropical storm.

We left New Orleans via I-10. It's the easiest way to get out of the city...

Lake Pontchartrain on the left, the Gulf of Mexico on the right

Gulf of Mexico

Once out of the city, we scooted over to US 90 as soon as we could. We were very happy we did.
If not, we would have missed the great beaches and scenery of Mississippi...

As we drove through Gulfport and Biloxi, there were many places to
pull over along the side of the road...

dipping our feet in the ocean!

it was a hot day! Cooper had a blast!

these beautiful homes were located right across the street from the ocean

most of the homes in this area were built on "stilts"; this will help protect them from
storm surges

these boats were beautiful

Coming into Mobile, Alabama we had to hop back onto I-10 as there was a bridge
on US 90 with a 13' foot clearance. We had to avoid this bridge
as we are over 13' tall by three inches. We are always checking
our route for bridge clearances...

Mobile

There are two ways to cross a body of water, in this case, the Gulf of Mexico; over
or under.
We went under through the tunnel...

to the other side

to...

Polecat Bay, Alabama

We spent the night at Riverside RV in Robertsdale, Alabama; where the

corn is ready and waiting to be picked!!

Friday, June 3

The word of the day is "steamy"! We left Riverside RV and we are headed to Tallahassee RV Park in Tallahassee, Florida. We stayed here last year on our way back to Texas.

This park is one of our least favorite parks. The sites are extremely narrow, and dirt...

We've decided to stay here for two nights...Tropical storm Colin is getting closer to land...

Sunday, June 5

We left Tallahassee early this morning with the hopes of reaching our destination before the rains come...we have decided to head towards Savannah. We're glad we did. A couple of the state parks in St. Augustine were evacuated because of Tropical Storm Colin.

We'll be staying at Inland Harbor RV in Darien, Georgia. We also stayed here last year on our way
back to Texas. We really like this park; it reminds us of our
"home" park in Texas, Johnson Creek RV. Inland Harbor is a smallish
park, surrounded by beautiful trees...

Tuesday, June 7

Happy Birthday Ron!!!

We survived our first tropical storm!! Yesterday Colin arrived, soaked everything (all day and night) and left us with clear skies and lots of sunshine. Oh, and a lot of humidity as well! Thankfully, we didn't (nor did anyone else here) suffer any damage. It was just a steady rain.

We chose to stay in Darien, rather Savannah, as it is more centrally located to some of the places we wish to visit. Savannah is about an hour north, the Okefenokee Swamp is about an hour west of us. And other places in between. Darien is a small, historical town with a few seafood restaurants; a couple of which are located on the Darien River.

We drove down to the docks on the Darien River. We walked along the river and viewed the shrimp boats.
The Darien River heads out into the ocean...

walking along the docks with Cooper

nice shrimp trawler

shrimp boats along the Darien River

Located near the docks were some Tabby Ruins. Tabby is a type of concrete made by burning
oyster shells to create lime, then mixing it with water, sand, ash and broken oyster shells.
Tabby was used by English Colonists primarily in coastal South Carolina and Georgia...