New Orleans to Navarre

It seems every morning is colder than the last and the weatherman says tomorrow will be worse yet with below freezing temperatures. Ugghhhh, wahhh, urrmmm, yes, well it is cold. I disconnected from city water last night and brought in the hose figuring if it froze we'd have our own water supply.

At 6:30 this morning I was lovingly woken by Punky with a series of wet kisses. Getting up, it was very cold. So cold, the dew had dried up in the wind and the grass was frozen from within.

Since we had a long drive today, we had a quick breakfast, walked the dogs, hooked up the car and headed for I-1o. Crossing the SW corner of Lake Pontchartrain we experienced the first of many causeways across the wetlands of southern US. Leaving Louisiana we entered Mississippi and crossed more coastal wetlands. It's interesting after watching a National Geographic Program on rising seas from glacial meltdowns to drive across the southern parts of the gulf states and realize that most of the areas we've been through will all be under water in 50 years unless we have a major change in how we deal with our global warming.

Passing through Mississippi and into Alabama we experience the first hills we've seen since Western Texas. Soon we are entering Mobile then passing through the George C Wallace Tunnel under the Mobile river. Leaving Mobile we pass the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial and forty miles later we cross into Florida having been in four states within a period of four hours. Exiting I-10 we head for Pensacola. Passing through Pensacola we cross Pensacola Bay and arrive at Gulf Breeze on Santa Rosa Sound.

Forty-five minutes later we turned in to the Emerald Beach RV Park and got our space for the next three nights. We were backed up to the Gulf once again with a beautiful white sand beach just feet from the rear of the rig. Once we had the rig set up Tina went for a long walk with the dogs and took some pictures of the beach and sunset.

Later we drove into Navarre for dinner at a new restaurant opened by the owner of the Emerald Beach RV Resort called the Johnny Houston Grill and Bar. Tina had a rack of pork ribs and I had the seafood platter. We both had a side of baked beans with cole slaw and fries. Everything was scrumptuous!! Hopefully the weather is supposed to warm up as we head further south. Yippeeee!!

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Today's drive, 190 miles. Total for the trip so far including side trips, 4,577 miles.