New Orleans Adventure 2011

Well Bill and I spent two days in New Orleans enjoying the Mardi Gras.  We are staying at the Pontchartrain Landing RV Campground.  It is on the river and just three years old.  One of the best things about this campground is that it had a shuttle to take you to the heart of Mardi Gras.  We saw a parade and enjoyed everyone throwing the beads and watching all the people try to catch them.  We had a latte at a little cafe and people watched.  Oh the sights.  We went for a walk along the river.  We had dinner at Bubba Gumps the first night and the second night we had dinner at Red Fish Grill.  At Bubba Gumps we had 1 1/2 lbs. of shrimp and at Red Fish Cafe Bill had Red Fish and I had Pork Tenderloin and a fantastic sweet potato.  We spent some time at Harrah's and made a contribution to the casino.  Our experience here was very positive and will return. One of the other things we enjoyed was the buskers.  We were so impressed with the a cappello group of three men that we bought their CD.  There were also several buskers who were live statues.  They stood so still you would swear they were real statues.  All in all we had a fantastic time in New Orleans.



Day One for another adventure

Bill and I were on the road at 7:30 this morning.  We were half hour into our trip when Bill noticed a Fifth wheel RV that was passing us had a flat tire.  He honked his horn a few times and they finally pulled over.  We know it pays to have a tire pressure monitoring system.  Around one o'clock our daughter Heather called us from her class room.  She was teaching the grade fours all about technology.  They could not believe that they were talking to their teachers parents so far away on a cell phone.  She was going to show them on a map just how far away we were.  They were full of questions about Texas.  Bill and I got quite a kick out of this.  We had lunch in the truck.  Bill likes to munch while he is driving so I make lunch part of his munching.  We stopped for a break at Buc-ee's,which is 300 miles N.E. of Retama on Hwy. 59. I ended up buying a wall hanging and a tile of a scene that reminded me of a street scene we saw while on our cruise.  This is a great place to stop for a break.  Clean washrooms, one that your mother would approve of ( that was on a bill board} and a lot of great things to look at and buy if you want.  This is a must stop.  Check  out the pictures at their web site http://buc-ees.com/wharton.htm .  We then travelled the rest of the way to Gulf Coast RV Resort in Beaumont, Tx.  The sites are long enough that we did not have to discount and we were on cement pads. It  was $l7.50 with our Passport America.   They offer a continental breakfast.     We had some rain but it stopped just as we got to the campground.    It was a long travel day but also a good travel day.  A new adventure has started with more to come.

In the begining......

This is my first attempt at doing a blog.  We have been on the road for ten years and I thought this would be a good way to keep family and friends up to date on our adventures.  I probably will not post every day.  As I start this blog we will be heading out tomorrow bright and early for a new travel adventure.  We will be stopping at Panama City Beach to visit our good friends Judy and Marcel.  We will be stopping at New Orleans for a couple of days.  Fun, Fun, Fun.  Bill and I  will be representing Retama Village, an amazing 55 Plus Community in Mission Texas at two rallies.  Both of them are in Georgia.