Across the South- Louisiana and Mississippi

Leaving Houston- Texas, what happened to the sun? 

I left Houston in a light spritz of rain after a downpour early in the morning.

I drove east to Beaumont, Texas in a steady drizzle that became a steady shower.

Crossing the rain-swollen Sabine River, I was in soaked Louisiana.

Welcome to Lousisana

Welcome to Louisana rest stop....

Welcome to Louisiana rain.....

Continuing East, I crossed the Pearl River into Mississippi.  Wet but not pouring.

How many times can you say- “It rained.”  Too many times for me.

Gotta say it- Mississippi says class in their Welcome  Center!

It's all in the details. Nice touch.

And closed.

Turns out my do-it-myself job of replacing my cracked skylight was… well, DIY and incomplete. I knew I needed to replace the caulking I  removed but it got cold in SD. I forgot. Dumb..

So in all that water falling from the sky, I had a leak. Or my camper skylight had one.  The good news - it was contained in a small area. The bad news? The small area was in the middle of my bed.

The best new? I’m not in a tent.

So I spent a damp and chilly night at Kessler Air Force Base in their very pleasant RV park.

 

The live oaks of the south.

  

  And I learned I do not know how to flush my camper toilet, my refrigerator will only run on LP gas, not electricity and Biloxi, Mississippi had much worse things to deal with than the idiosyncrasies or the luxuries of a camper.

I drove along the beach area- the new casinos were obvious and the tragic gaps between the stately old trees just as obvious.  I talked to some friendly folk in a truck stop and they said Katrina demolished a row of houses that had defied hurricanes for over a hundred years.  The devastation was heartrending, even years later.

Historic Beauvoir - Home of Jefferson Davis
and
a icon of the South

Restored and beautiful again.

The Biloxi lighthouse and new visitor center

Another lighthouse holds it's own on the Biloxi coast.

Here comes the sun!

Messing around with effects