Fri 15-Jan-2016 Events |
It’s a short drive from Mobile to Ocean Spring MS, near Biloxi. Our Lafayette friends Grace Benedict and Kevin O’Brien live there; Kevin is the executive director of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum....
Thu 14-Jan-2016 Alabama, Travel |
Slow-ish start this morning with some housekeeping chores, followed by lunch at the Original Oyster House on Route 90. Nice restaurant on stilts overlooking the marsh lands in the estuary. Lunch was good, but...
Wed 13-Jan-2016 Alabama, Travel |
Today’s hike was at the Audubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island at the very southwest end of Mobile Bay. The drive out to the island through the marshes and sand bars is quite spectacular. Dauphin...
Tue 12-Jan-2016 Florida, Travel |
Today was an odd day. The oddness actually started yesterday in Greenville AL. We had spent Sunday night at a Walmart there. Overnight the temperature had dropped by 40-degrees. As we were about to leave to...
Mon 11-Jan-2016 Alabama, Travel |
Sunday we drove just a short way, stopping in Greenville, Alabama at a Walmart where David had determined we would have some good TV to watch football. After spending time in Wisconsin, we have become Packers...
Sat 9-Jan-2016 Alabama, Travel |
Smith Lake is a large man-made lake with a county park and campground on its shore. When we first arrived we had a pleasant walk around the lake shore — 58-degrees and overcast. Probably 20 trucks with...
Fri 8-Jan-2016 Alabama, Travel |
David and I finally got off on our 2016 warm winter weather adventure at about 2:00 on Tuesday the 7th. It was hard to leave West Lafayette as it was a 50-degree,sunny, blue-sky day. Reminded me of March...
Mon 12-Oct-2015 Travel, Wisconsin |
After buttoning up Steven’s cabin for the winter, we headed south on US 51 to the Northern Highland American Legion Forest. Our goal was to find a place to camp there and take a hike before the rain...
Sun 11-Oct-2015 Travel, Wisconsin |
We returned to Steven and Sarah’s cabin near Mercer to spend two nights. Steven, Wyatt, and Clay came up on Sunday, arriving around noon. We had a pizza lunch on their picnic table overlooking the...
Sat 10-Oct-2015 Travel, Wisconsin |
A few more words about Two Lakes NFS CG. We took a walk around the closed sections this morning and were reminded that this is one of the nicest campgrounds we have visited. Most of the sites have a lake...
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