December 11, 2004

December 11, 2004

Summerdale, Alabama to New Orleans, Louisiana

DAY 177

 

It's official ! Bo is now our dog ! ! !

Today was sunny, and cool. First thing this morning, I bought the Mobile Register and checked the lost ads. Nobody looking for Bo, so he's ours. And a fine little fellow he is. Today was the first day of travel with him. He was great. Spent most of the day napping on the back seat. A real good little traveller.

We left Rainbow Plantation this morning headed for New Orleans, Louisiana, which is where we are now. We wanted to be here tonight, because there's a Sunday Brunch here in New Orleans we want to attend.

We left Rainbow Plantation travelling east on County Road 28 for about 5 miles back to Summerdale on Hwy. 59, then north on Hwy. 59 to Interstate 10. From here on, our travels will be mostly west until California next March. West on Interstate 10 back to and through Mobile. On the west side of Mobile we stopped at an RV dealer to buy a few parts I needed. Back onto I-10 until we entered Mississippi where we stopped at the highway rest area / tourist information centre to have lunch. After lunch, west on I-10 to Gulfport, Mississippi where we filled up with diesel at Flying J, and bought Bo an engraved ID tag at PetsMart. WOO-HOO ... Bo from Alabama now "resides" in Lorette, Manitoba, Canada !

More west on I-10, driving hard all the way across the southern part of Mississippi, and into Louisiana. Shortly after entering Louisiana, I-10 crosses the eastern side of Lake Pontchartrain, and enters New Orleans. We drove through, and got seriously lost in, New Orleans trying to find Bayou Segnette State Park, on the southwest side of the city, which is where we are now. It's very stressful for both of us to drive through a new city, and get lost, at dusk. I crossed the same long, narrow bridge over the Mississippi River three times ! Eventually we got here, and settled in.

DSK