Well, after 3 years away we finally made it “home” to Jacksonville. The rv park we wanted was booked full so we found an alternative but we’re very pleased with the one we ended up in. Of course, one day after arriving we both had to go to work. Then straight from work we went to St. Croix to check up on our place and join a few of our friends that decided to vacation there for a week. But…
The next day we took a ride down historic Route 30 at the recommendation of some friends. It basically goes from Destin to Panama City right along the beach. I’d call it more of a beach drive. That being said it was a beautiful drive through a bunch of quaint beach towns with lots of touristy stuff like shops, restaurants, bars, etc. We wanted to visit Panama City, as well, because it seems we were always hearing about that town…
This is the continuation of the last post. As I said, I took so many pictures of the ship and sub that I had to divide them into two posts so this post contains the pictures of the sub. Like the battleship this was also a self guided tours and it was also very fascinating. I forget how many crew were aboard the sub but I can tell you, it’s tight quarters. After the sub we walked around and looked…
Before I start this post I need to explain. I took so many pictures of the ship and sub that I have to divide them into two posts so this post contains the pictures of the battleship and the next post will be of the sub. We drove to a place that we passed on the way from Biloxi to Florida called The USS Alabama Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama. We saw this huge battleship on the drive along Highway…
We decided to spend the rest of our winter in Jacksonville visiting home and our friends. On the way we spent a week in Destin, Fl since we’ve never been there and had heard good things about it. We got a campground right across the street from the beach and we loved both the campground and Destin. Although the temperatures were kind of cold (well, cold for us in the low 60’s), we did check out the beaches and the…
Our next four days were spent financing our trip. We both headed off to work. Jamie to Tel Aviv and me to Mumbai. We got back and had one more day to explore Biloxi so we started out at the George Ohr art museum. George Ohr was nicknamed the mad potter of Biloxi. He was a ceramic artist that was born in the 1857 and spent his life creating unique pottery. When he died in 1918 he told his kids…
The visitor center set us up with a woman who runs a tour of Biloxi in a trolley pulled by her jeep. It was off season so we were the only ones on the big trolley. Was a little odd but we definitely got VIP treatment. The tour lasted a couple of hours and we learned allot about the city and the impact of hurricane Katrina back in 2005. You can still see signs of the destruction caused by Katrina….
From Houston we left for Biloxi, Mississippi. We’d been through Mississippi when we first started our trip but didn’t spend any time there because we were making a mad dash for New Orleans to make it there for Mardi Gras. So we consider this our first time in Mississippi. We’ll be hitting some of northern parts of the state later in the spring so for now we were just visiting Biloxi. It was about a 6-7 hour drive and we…