Finding Our Way
We departed Mississippi and headed into Alabama and on through the beautiful city of Mobile!! About 30 minutes east of Mobile long I-10 is the wonderful Buc-ee’s. Buc-ee’s is a chain of country stores and gas stations that originated in Texas in 1982 and is spreading throughout the country with
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We headed into Mississippi and passed the NASA John C Stennis Space Center. The INFINITY Science Center is located there and is a museum open to the public and offers a blend of space, Earth science, and engineering and technology content. We would have stopped if we had known about
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The Great River Road, AKA Plantation Alley, in Louisiana lies between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and is known for all the grand plantations which sit along the Mississippi River. Plantation Alley is about 70 miles long and consists of large land tracts with mansions which had slave quarters and
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As we make our way through Louisiana we drive on elevated roads through the swamps and bayous. Now and then we encounter signs for cracklins and boudin and eventually cross the Mississippi River. This means we are officially in the east. We meander our way through town and get to
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We managed to make it through the construction and major road mess which went from Beaumont, Texas to Layfaette, Louisiana. It was a tough day of driving with lots of traffic and orange cones and machinery everywhere. As we drove through Louisiana we were drooling over all the food billboard
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We drove from Austin to Lumberton and took backroads the whole way. We will do anything to avoid Houston and to allow us to see the great Texas countryside. And boy, are we glad we did. It was a long drive but it was terrific. It was a pretty windy
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McKinney Falls State Park! Now this is a campground I have been hearing and reading about for years. Everyone says how wonderful it is and we had to go. So…we went! The state park is in the southeast of Austin and literally right in the city. This is perfect if
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Pedernales Falls State Park is approximately 40 miles east of Fredricksburg and about 12 miles east of Johnson City. Fredricksburg is in the heart of Texas hill country and is a quaint, charming, German town full of shops, restaurants with German cuisine, and over 50 wineries. It is definitely worth
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As we headed east on I-10 through Texas we passed Fort Stockton and headed on towards Tunis Springs where we made a lunch stop. We continued on towards Junction with plans to boondock at the city park located along the river. Most state parks in the area were closed for
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Alpine, Texas.! The last time we were here has been maybe ten years ago when someone we were traveling with developed gall stones while we were at Big Bend State Park. Where is the closest hospital (according to the rangers), well it’s Alpine. So we made a bee line to
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