Bourbon Street, New Orleans

Pictures of our trip to Bourbon Street. It was a fun place to visit and a must if you come to the New Orleans area.

Our stay in New Orleans

Our stay at the Fountainebleau State Park was a nice choice. The park was very clean and sites were nice in size. We took a nice 5 mile hike in to the bayou, not much to see but very peaceful. We took a day trip over to Mandeville and Madisonville to view the towns. Both were nice and we found and area in Madisonville that had an old lighthouse. Our other side trip was to New Orleans to visit Bourbon Street. We went on Saturday and the French Quarter was very busy, reminded me of bike week in March. They had a Saint Patrick Day parade on St. Charles street near the Garden district, lots of people and activity. We took a bus and trolly ride down St. Charles (lots of beads in the trees) and really enjoyed the scenery of beautiful homes.. Of course we dined on Bourbon Street and had some great gumbo. Had a nice drive back to the camper over the 24 mile bridge.  Time to move on to Kincaid Lake in Pineville, La.





Our trip to Fontainebleau State Park

Off we go for our visit to New Orleans. We were in four states today, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. We are staying in the Fontainebleau State Park on Lake Pontchartrain. This is a very big state park with great bike riding and trails for hiking. We will be here 4 nights and visit New Orleans via the
24 mile bridge across the lake.

Lake Pontchartrain

Our stay in Pensacola

We stayed for 2 nights at the Pensacola RV Park. Very nice owners, nice size spaces and a place we would recommend. Went to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner and then cooked out for the second night. Wednesday was exciting as tornadoes were in the area and we spent 3 hours in the clubhouse waiting out the storms. It rained till about 5 and we weren't able to do any site seeing. We may have to see the Navy Museum and beaches on our return trip. Our neighbors said the museum and beaches are worth seeing.

Forgot to post a picture of the bathroom named for ME!!

The trip started Friday, 3/4

The old homestead

Well we got off around 10 am for our trip to Alaska. We were heading to see our grandchildren in Crawfordville, Fl. We stayed at the Holiday Campground on US 98 at the Panacea Bridge. Our site was great and we looked out on to the Ochlockonee Bay at Gulf of Mexico. What a wonderful view and place for our grandchildren to play. We had a great time with our grandchildren and daughter. We took a drive over to St. George Island with our grandson Tristan. He got to go with his Nanna and Papa as the other children were in school. Suzanne's parent had a house on St George Island about 10 years ago. The house has changed some but still looks great. There is a new bridge going to the island and they rebuilt the lighthouse that was on Little St. George Island  on St. George Island, when it fell over. We had a great final day and will move out tomorrow Tuesday, 3/8 for Pensacola.











our backyard



Sunset from our camper



The trip to Alaska starts 3/4/2011

Well the time to leave for Alaska has arrived. We are excited about the trip and it will be awesome!! Our first stop will be the Holiday Campground in Panacea, Fl., right on the Gulf of Mexico. We will visit our wonderful grandchildren and see our good friends Lee and Dorothy. I had a motorccycle rack installed and now the TW 200 will be traveling with us. Everyone please be safe and stay healthy! Please remember David our son in your prayers as he is in Kuwait and will be going to Iraq on missions. Bon Voyage!!