Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
First stop in the Appalachians… …and our last stop in Alabama. We camped in Alabama’s DeSoto State Park, in Fort Payne, developed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is home to DeSoto Falls, the state’s highest waterfall (104-foot-tall). The park also borders the Little River, which flows Read more
Camping on Lake Logan Martin in Riverside, Alabama We chose this campground, on a small lake off of the Coosa River, because it was between Birmingham and Anniston, two places where we wanted to visit National Park sites. And being on the water, we thought it would be nice for Read more
Mostly Montgomery, plus Selma & Tuskegee WOW! We had 11 nights here, long enough to have some hangout days, get the 100K service done on The Beast, and still spend 7 days visiting many, many sites. Montgomery is known as the Cradle of the Confederacy and the Birthplace of the Read more
In LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, Jackson, Mississippi 5 nights on Mayes Lake…literally camping on the “inside curve” of the oxbow lake, and only 3 miles from downtown Jackson, Mississippi. We drove the first/southernmost 101.5 miles on the Natchez Trace Parkway to get here, and then spent our first day driving Read more
A week in Vidalia, Louisiana… …across the river from Natchez, MS And while we very much enjoyed our view of the Mississippi from our campsite and walked along the Vidalia Riverwalk between our campsite and the river, we did most of our touring, in Natchez and out and about on Read more
Last Stop on the Gulf Coast Camped west of New Orleans proper, in the outskirts of Kenner, where Mark worked a couple of times for AT&T. Also near the airport and across the street from the north levee of the Mississippi River. Also not far from a little memorial park, Read more
Short Stay in Gulfport We spent an afternoon visiting the Mississippi side of the Gulf Islands NS, and then drove back to camp along the Gulf Coast, through Biloxi, with a stop at Shaggy’s in Gulfport for a Mississippi Gulf Coast dinner. Forgot to mention last post, that we had Read more
“Camping” near the home of the Blue Angels! We stopped here to visit the Gulf Islands National Seashore-Florida and the National Naval Aviation Museum (on the Naval Air Station Pensacola.) We actually camped across Perdido Bay from Pensacola, in Lillian, Alabama, our 35th state to camp in with Lizzy! We Read more
Or West Everglades…Big Cypress National Preserve Five nights camping in Big Cypress National Preserve (#231), at Monument Lake Campground. It is only our 5th time camping with Lizzy in a National Park! Despite the website info that there was limited cell service and no showers, we were pleasantly surprised to Read more
Although we didn’t visit it at all! We camped in Davie, Florida just 3 nights, for one trip south, and one trip north. First day we drove south, first for a revisit to Robert Is Here Fruit Stand, for Fruit Milkshakes and some “grocery shopping”, the for a revisit to Read more