02Apr 2016 by Lboll
Louisiana – Texas- Oklahoma and Weather

Louisiana – Texas- Oklahoma and Weather

Traveling
Three weeks, three Corp of Engineer Campgrounds, three states, and three weather incidents have brought us to Oklahoma with a new hail damaged truck and a desire to get back to Minnesota.  March has been an interesting month. The first week in March we made a trip to Louisiana for a few days as Joe had been making an internet deal on a new 2015 Dodge Ram Dually.  I’ll take a step back and just say that Joe has been looking for a different truck for well over a year.  He had been worry about the brakes on the 2011 truck handling our Lifestyle and also the towing capacity on hills and in the wind.  I want us to be safe since travelling is our way of life so we…
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11Dec 2014 by Lboll

Mississippi/Louisiana

Traveling
As in my last post I will say again that Joe and I have so much to be thankful for and we remind ourselves every day.  As we travelled along the gulf coast in Mississippi and Louisiana it was apparent just how fortunate we are.  Hurricane Katrina happened in 2005 and the devastation it left behind was still apparent along the gulf coast in these two states.  We stayed at Buccaneer State Park in Waveland, MS which sits right on the gulf.    Waveland was 97% destroyed in 2005.  As we drove from Waveland to the town of Bay St. Louis we were amazed at businesses that were still in ruins.  Many stilts were standing where houses use to sit on top of them.  We did a little research to look…
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