Lily Pad Travels: Traveling through FOUR states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Texas

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Traveling through FOUR states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Texas

Monday December 2nd, 2013

We packed up, filled up with propane, had a discussion about our bill as the campground had only credited us with $50 of the $100 deposit we put down. The manager wasn't there but they will look at it and let me know. I make it that they owe me a few cents after the cost of the electric and the propane. I'm willing to forget about that but I'm not willing to give them any more money. The lady was very nice and I don't think there will be a problem. This is the second campground where I have had to dispute the bill, just goes to show that my finance skills are not totally dead!!! We ended up leaving about 11:00am.
I started to write my blog as I hadn't done it for a couple of weeks and time went quite quickly. Before I knew it we were crossing into Mississippi.

Just after you enter Mississippi from Louisiana there is a rest stop at the John C Stennis Space Center.

We had stopped here on a previous trip from Louisiana to Pensacola with Bryan's parents to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. I remember that I saw a huge magnolia tree and was staring at it, fascinated by the huge buds that were on it. Bryan's dad was really amused by my fascination with this tree, he & Bryan were laughing at me and never let me live it down.

We were going to stop again and see if the tree was still there but we hadn't been on the road long and as we had a way to go we decided against it. When I look at the website for the Space Center we will definitely have to make this stop some time in the future. In fact, we have already discussed coming back along this coast and spending more time along the way so we can explore more.

Here's another long bridge...... whenever I go across these bridges and look over into the swamps below I always hope I might see an alligator but so far I haven't!! This part of the bridge was before we got to the swamps.

Next we crossed into Alabama. I nearly missed the sign, ha!! ha!!

In Mobile we had to go through the George Wallace Tunnel. We had been through here before in the car but not the motorhome so I was a little concerned. Of course I didn't have to worry, Bryan had it handled, he really is great driving Lily. Earlier today we had to fill her up with gas and he had to do a u-turn around the pumps, you would have thought he was driving a mini!!!!

Approaching the tunnel, our speed was good!!

Entering the tunnel

The light at the end of the tunnel

Coming out of the tunnel

and onto the bridge

We saw this on a bridge beside us, it looked like a small motorhome pulling a trailer. We ended up following it for a while and it seemed as though it was a truck with luxurious living accommodation.

Gulf of Mexico

Then we followed this truck wondering again what it was. It looked to me like a space machine, ha!! ha!!

As we passed it Bryan figured out it was a hydroseeder and was seeding along the highway. Another mystery solved, although I prefer my version of a back to the future type of machine!!

We were getting closer to Florida and I saw these trees, they seemed really tall, although not as tall as the Sequoia's in California which I hope to see at some time.

And then we were entering Florida.

Soon we were driving into Naval Air Station, Pensacola where our campsite will be for the next month.

"Bitchin Betty" shows how close we are to the water!!

The red blob in the middle at the bottom is the motorhome, looks as though we are driving into the ocean!!!

As we drove onto the base, we were reminded of how much we like this place. Our campsite is about 3 minutes walk from the beach and white sand. I will post pictures when I take some but in the meantime, here are two from our last visit in 2008.