Note: the following post describes events prior to the posts regarding our tornado experience. …and we’re back in Alabama! Well, it wasn’t really a hop, skip and a jump, it was more like a 30 minute drive from the campground …
Note: the following post describes events prior to the posts regarding our tornado experience. On Monday, April 21st, we decided to take a ride around the area surrounding Cotton Hill Campground to see what’s what. Our first stop was the …
Despite wanting to relax while we were at Topsail somehow it ended up feeling a little busy! When we arrived on the 10th, our first priority was to finish our taxes and get that monkey off our backs! Finally done …
As noted in the previous post we spent several hours touring the USS Alabama located at Battleship Memorial Park just outside of Mobile and only about 5 minutes from Meaher State Park where we were staying. Also located in this …
This day was filled with ups and downs but by the exhaustive end of it, all we could do was chuckle! Since we hadn’t been out to breakfast for awhile, we were looking forward to going to Lap’s Grocery & …
We had one more sightseeing expedition here. Actually there was a lot more that we wanted to do, but the launch date of our boat Quantum Leap is approaching rapidly and RI is beckoning to us so our time in …
By noon, we had finished the Tabasco factory tour but our sightseeing at Avery Island wasn’t done yet. Our next stop was the nearby Jungle Gardens. The second son of Edmond McIlhenny, Edward “Ned” McIlhenny, born in 1872, was an …
Who doesn’t have a bottle of Tabasco sauce in their cupboard? We certainly do in fact we have several. And even if you don’t have a bottle in your own cupboard, you see that little red bottle squeezed between the …
Guess we didn’t get our fill of swamps or creepy crawly things yet! After our day visiting the Barataria Preserve section of the Jean Lafitte National Park on Monday, before heading back to the beast we made a stop at …
Monday, the 31st dawned with the promise of bright sunny skies and warmer temps. Not complaining but during the months that we have been in the south, we have had abnormally cool (sometimes even cold) temps. Temps in the 50’s …
