20 – 26 November 2010

20 Nov, Saturday:  It was the weekend so all the families started coming in…..park filled up.  We decided to stay two more days so Nolan went to the office and paid.

21 Nov, Sunday:  Nothing too exciting…..cleaned and gave dogs a bath.  Weather was beautiful!

22 Nov, Monday:  Earlier we kept going by a sign for the Historical Bond Cemetery, so today we drove around for a while trying to find it.  The one sign was all we ever saw and we were not sure we actually found it…..oh well, took up a couple of hours out of very unexciting day!

23 Nov, Tuesday:  Travel day……heading to Rockport for the rest of the winter but tonight we stayed in Gulf Coast RV Resort, Beaumont, TX.

24 Nov, Wednesday:  Drove through Houston this morning on the remainder of our trip to Rockport.  Sure glad Nolan does such a good job driving!!!

Lucy hates these overpasses and bridges!!!!

25 Nov, Thursday:  Thanksgiving and they of course were having a dinner at the community room but we decided to cook ourselves.  Went to HEB and they had turkey breast roasted we could buy…..boy was that the easiest and best turkey we’ve ever had for Thanksgiving!!!!

We have to separate Oscar and Lucy’s food so they don’t fight……Oscar is too old to jump up on the couch any more so that’s where Lucy eats…..lately, Lucy has decided this is the most comfortable way to eat…..she’s such a funny dog!!!

26 Nov, Friday:  Very cold today but we made trip to Lowes just to find a rug for the dog pen.  We have enough room at The Last Resort to put in on the concrete so I wanted a rug for them to lay on when they are in the pen…..found a couple of small ones for them and a new one for the front door.  Pizza Hut was next door to Lowe’s so that’s what we had for lunch.  Called Cain for his birthday!  Sure do hate we missed it again!

13 – 19 November 2010

13 Nov, Saturday:  We were only about 20 miles from where Chuck and Kathy, Sandy and John, and Jim and Ellie were camped at Rainbow Plantation in Summderdale.  So today was the day to go visit before we left tomorrow.  We had a good visit and got to actually play with KoKo, John and Sandy’s dog, a little….she doesn’t like strangers very much; she liked Nolan better than me…..go figure, kids and animals always pick him!  Sure not like Lucy, she will play with anyone.  The park they are in is very nice and I think Chuck and Kathy are going to buy a lot.  That will be nice for them (forgot to take pictures).

14 Nov, Sunday:  Today was moving day.  We decided to try Flint Creek Water Park, in Wiggins, MS. The rain held off until we got all set up…..we’re scheduled to stay here a week.

Here’s the front gate

This is the road into the campground

Our site in the woods!!!!!

 

This is the view out our back window…..we just left the blinds open all the time…..we were about 40 or 50 feet away from the water.  That was very nice!

 

Our deck

Campsites down the road from us…..they are hard to see!

Everything was paved and nice BUT…..it felt like we were in a jungle and it was very dark all the time!  Not one of our favorite places but would be fun in the summer with a boat or jet ski.  Although, I think you would have to make reservations way ahead of time in the summer.  We were in the first come, first serve section and I think they stay full all the time.  There are a few permanent looking places with swings and all kinds of stuff around.  It was cheap…$90 for a week and included the electric, using Passport America.

15 Nov, Monday:  Still raining so we decided to go to the grocery and drive around town.  It’s always fun to drive around a new place to see what there is to see.

16 Nov, Tuesday:  Today was a “do nothing” day and Nolan grilled pork chops for dinner.

17 Nov, Wednesday: Nolan always remembers the strangest things, well, he really just remembers everything he ever reads and he remembered reading that “Dizzy” Dean, a famous baseball player lived around Wiggins.  So today we were off to find what we could find.  They have a rest stop named after him and he is buried in the Bond Cemetery, which we visited.

18 Nov, Thursday: Went to the post office and I was hungry for goulash(not that the two things really have anything to do with each other).  I found a recipe on line and I had all the ingredients; so I just made it…..it was good!  However, I think next time I will leave out the potatoes and put more macaroni in instead.

19 Nov, Friday:  Drove to Gulfport today.  We visited the area in 2008 when we were this way and I wanted to see if they had rebuilt it yet…..they had some but there are still way more empty sites than ones that have new stuff in them.  I was hungry for Mexican so we stopped at a restaurant that we saw was busy on our way in.  Just so so…..not the best.

6 – 12 November 2010

6 Nov, Saturday:  Still cold so I stayed inside all day.  Started laundry and the stupid machine overflowed again…..been having trouble for a while and I never know when it’s gonna do it; so, Nolan worked on the washing machine today.  Put a new water level control thing on it and of course we then had to clean up the mess and all the dirt behind the machine…..it always gets so nasty behind washing machines!!!!

7 Nov, Sunday:  Travel day…..moved to Azalea Acres in Robertsdale, AL.  Not a great park but it has full hookups and great WiFi and close to the Gulf.

It’s really just a big field with RV hookups on it.

Nothing was paved.

Here’s where we were parked…..sites were wide enough but we had some ants under the table.

Not bad but not the greatest either.  Lots of grass for the dogs.

8 Nov, Monday:  We’re only 30 miles from Gulf Shores; so, today we went for a drive to see what we could see.  Bridge to get to the beaches.

Very pretty place!

 

Lots and lots of place to rent along the shore road.

Was so surprised to see how white the sand was….it’s not that way in Rockport, TX, where we’ve been staying on the gulf.

And, then……we ate seafood…..very, very good.  Been a long time since we’ve done that!

Nolan looking over the menu before we went in!

What a fun day!!!

9 Nov, Tuesday:  Seems to be a lot of places to see around here…..I could stay here all winter but Nolan seems to think it may get too cold.  Today we drove to Foley and on the way we stopped at a very good farmers market, bought bananas and pecans and tomatoes.  They had lots of stuff!

Of course every night Lucy has to lay with me in my chair but it seems she likes to lay with her head hanging upside down…..every night she keeps hanging a little more off the chair…..strange dog!!!!!

10 Nov, Wednesday:  Oh……today is going to be a good day!  First we had made plans to meet Kevin and Arlene for lunch in Pensacola.  The place Arlene wanted to go didn’t open until 4 so we ate across the street instead….very good!!!!  AND, it was so good to see them and catch up…..

Then we were off to check out Fort Pickens because I wanted to stay a couple of days there…..no sewer hookups but it is close to the water.

We drove down the island to the Fort and checked out the campgrounds.  This is along the road to the campground.

 

Doesn’t it look like snow piled up along the road.

Didn’t take pictures of the campground, I was too busy looking to see if we might like it…..we finally decided not to stay this time but maybe some other time….it wasn’t very full and would have been easy to find a nice spot but Nolan’s not much of a beach person!

We went on down the road to the old Fort.  Here’s a few pictures…..Fort has been here a long time…..very interesting!

We missed the tour times mainly because we were watching the Blue Angels practice.  They were home and this coming weekend they were gonna have a 3 day show but I think we saw most of how they would be flying without fighting the crowds.

It was pretty cool!!!!  Another fun day….it was beautiful weather!

11 Nov, Thursday:  Rest and stay at home day.

12 Nov, Friday:  We saw a Book Exchange store in Foley and Nolan doesn’t have anything to read…..he won’t buy new books.  Got there and it was pretty unorganized and I don’t think he was in the mood to look so we left without a book!  Oh well, we got out and drove around!