Alabama – Mississippi – Louisania

12/2/2020

After 2 weeks at Pickensville AL it was time to move on down the road, for the most part we had fantastic weather, cool at nights, semi warm and sunshine durning the day, almost no wind most of the days……….. that is until the frozen north attacked us, with the last 2 nights in the mid 20’s.

27 Degrees at 9:00 AM when we fired up for the 150 mile drive to our next spot. It sure felt like we had been transported to the frozen north. But by lunchtime with bright sunshine it was comfortable outside with just a sweatshirt.

We moved to Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi. The park has a 5 star rating, personally I would’t give it above a 3.5. The roads are very narrow, hilly, lumpy and curvy with ditches on both sides most places and its like 3 miles back to the campground. We are backed in over looking Shadow Lake, it’s a small 150 acre lake.

One or more of the campsites have ditches on both sides, parked there and you have just enough room to step out of your RV then you would need to walk the narrow space between your camper and ditch towards the end of the site where the site opens up. Another hit at the park rating is very few are flat, on the website most are listed as slight in the website, lets just say their definition of slight is way different from mine, many of them we would not have been able to get level or use all of our blocks to get level. That’s one advantage travel trailers and 5th wheels have over a  motorhome.

12/3/2020

We had planned to just stay one night but there is some rain headed this direction so we’re going to stay 1 more night and burrrrr baby its cold out side. We went for a walk this morning, with a slight breeze from the front moving through 56 felt much colder than the 27 degrees of yesterday morning.

They have an observation tower here that I think is 4 stories tall, walked up it twice and that was enough….. Hope I can still walk in the morning:)

More goo below:)

12/4/2020

We pulled out around 8:00 Am and drove 269 miles. That’s further than I planned on driving, but driving I20 west the campground options are limited on the east side of Shreveport LA so we took the bypass I220 around and stoped just west of Shreveport. Boy, I’m thinking the bypass may have been a mistake. There is absolutely no excuse for an expressway being that rough. Its rough not from potholes, it’s concrete. Not a patch to be seen but it was rough beyond belief.

Of course I20 going through Jackson MS was pretty rough tooooo, but that was from patches and I’m pretty sure it’s on the books to be repaved.

Across the road from us is a 1968 Bluebird

The End