It’s another travel day and we’re heading to Pensacola, Florida – some 230 miles to the Pensacola RV Park where we plan on staying two nights.

Mike is driving brilliantly and coping “somewhat” calmly with the crazies who need to merge onto the freeway but who are too distracted with chatting on their cell phones to focus of what they need to do. They just don’t know whether to speed up and get in-front of us, slow down and come in behind us and have no idea that it’s just not that easy on a busy road for us to move into the next lane to accommodate their inability to make a decision!

En route, we travel through Mobile and around Mobile Bay where the USS Alabama battleship is moored. Mike and I love touring these kinds of facilities and we spent a day onboard the USS Alabama when we were in the area last year.

After commissioning and full sea-trails, the battleship began her career in 1943 and served out her days supporting the US Fleet in the Pacific.

The view of Mobile, Alabama as we pass by.

Mike onboard the USS Alabama last year when we were in the area. How strange, he was wearing the same T-shirt yesterday as we drove by it!

 

Greetings from our maiden voyage in Roxanne, the motor home!

We plan on spending three weeks on the road, starting in Magnolia, Texas where we live, and traveling through parts of Louisiana, Florida, South and North Carolina and Tennessee, before returning home.

Day one is a travel day covering some 340 miles from Magnolia, Texas to the Lakeside RV (recreational vehicle) Park in Livingston, Louisiana. It is perhaps a few more miles than the ideal, as we have already learned that it takes much longer to go anywhere in the motor home compared to our truck, but May-time is crawfish season in Louisiana and we were unable to get into our first choice of park due to a crawfish festival taking place.

That said, some six hours after we set off, we arrive at the park which is delightful. It has spaces for some 140 vehicles – motor homes of Roxanne’s size (40 feet) and larger, fifth wheels (which are pulled by a truck) and all kinds of combinations in-between.

The park is very pretty and includes a well-stocked fish lake in the middle with swans, geese and other wildlife and surrounded by beautiful trees.

 

The lake with its two Swans.

Roxanne connected to water, electrical power and the sewer system.