South Trip 2010, Day 10

Good morning from Tallahassee Florida (actually 25 miles east, but who’s counting…)

Yesterday was a day of sightseeing and driving. We left our little prison campground (which I cannot stress enough was absolutely GORGEOUS inside the walls) in down town New Orleans around noon and took the Rt. 90 scenic tour through the Gulf. Extremely picturesque beaches and very Bahamas’ like sands, except for all the Tar Balls. Yes we saw the disaster first hand and its effects. There are hundreds of workers all along the beaches trying to pick the tar up, and the beaches were desolate. The devastation on these little communities has got to be un-believable. In addition to this latest disaster, you can still see the remnants from Katrina especially the bridges connecting the Gulf towns. There was one bridge on 90 going into Mississippi that was totally destroyed and pieces still in the water. The new bridge must have just opened since it looked brand new.

After the beaches we decided to stop and see the USS Alabama (a battleship, and air museum), very cool! It was the first time on a Battleship for us and it is astounding the size of this ship. You can only imagine what it was like when all the guns were firing! The shells where bigger than Nicholas and there were TONS of guns. The men who manned these ships back in WWII were “real men”! The metal coffins they called gun turrets gave me claustrophobia just looking in, I cannot image for a second what that was like in the heat of the Pacific, in a battle, firing those 16” guns…the 8” cannon turrets were worse! My God, all I can say is those were real brave men!

Every time we visit a US memorial or museum regarding our service men and women, it feels great to be an American knowing we have such brave people protecting us! God Bless America!

Well, after 10:00pm we decided to pull into a KOA off of Rt. 10, well much to all of our surprises we pulled into the BIGGEST crap hole of a campground we have yet to drive on to date…needless to say we will be out of here early and be in Hilton Head earlier than expected….

So until the next Blog Please have a Blessed Day!