On the Road Again!

Goodbye San Antonio!

We left San Antonio for Orange Beach, Alabama on Saturday, January 21.  Fortunately we were behind the bad storms that spawned deadly tornados in Mississippi.  We had beautiful sunny weather the whole trip.

Driving through Houston we noticed many flags.  You know I like flags! Here's a small sampling of some of the flags we saw.

After driving what seemed like hours and hours, we finally made it to Louisiana!  We saw a lot of marshes and water in Louisiana.

Crossing Lake Charles

We stayed overnight at a KOA in Lafayette.  It's a really pretty park with lots of trees and a small lake. 

Settling in for the night

Next door to the park is Billy's which sells homemade boudin (boo-dan) and cracklins.  Didn't know what that was but had to have some!  Found out that boudin is a white pork sausage made with spicy seasonings and rice.  It is sold as sausage links and as boudin balls which are breaded fried balls of the sausage.  Cracklins are pork skin cut into cubes and fried.  They are similar to packaged pork rinds (which I like) but they're thicker and greasier.  Everything was spicy and delicious!

 

On the 2nd day we drove on a long bridge for about 25 minutes as we crossed the Atchafalaya Basin.  Parts of it looked like river and parts were swamp. 

We drove a short distance across Mississippi...

Then we were in Alabama--home for the next month!

We drove through Mobile, which is about 60 miles from Orange Beach.  We plan on spending a day exploring it.

Drove through a tunnel

We drove by the USS Alabama docked in Mobile Bay.

Mobile Bay

USS Alabama

Who remembers these grocery stores and the S&H green stamps we saved in books to redeem for merchandise?

Just a few miles from RV park we drove next to Portage Creek, an inland waterway that runs from Boston, MA to Brownsville, TX.  Tugboats and barges are used to transport goods on the waterway.

Next stop the RV park!