May 16, 2013 - Hollywood Casino, Tunica, Ms.

On Tuesday, May 14th about 9:00 am we left Jackson Ms Moose Lodge on the way to Tunica Ms . Arrived Tunica, Hollywood Casino about 1:00 pm. Got all set up in the RV Park. This is a real nice park with full hook ups. We are only about 75 yards from the back door of the casino. We went over to the casino and played some blackjack, three card poker and some Texas Hold-Um. Judy did real good at the three card poker table and I didn’t do bad playing Texas Hold-Um. I stopped playing about 9:30. On May 15th we went over to have the 99 cent...

Mar 27, 2013 - Heading North

First a report from Henderson Louisiana, and dinner at Crawfish Town...simply GREAT!!! we had several different cajun varieties of crawfish and shrimp and all was delicious. This was followed by a Bread Pudding with Rum sauce that was excellent also. On Tuesday we drove from Louisiana to Tunica Mississippi, home of a bunch of casinos floating on the Mississippi river (sort of). We wen to the Harrah's Casino and donated a few dollars but not too much. Today, we drove into Memphis (about 20 miles) and visited Graceland and Elvis (He wasn't...

Dec 3, 2012 - Visit to oldest working hand pulled Ferry

It was a nice day so we took a Bike ride to Los Ebanos Texas where the oldest operational had pulled Ferry is, it carries 2 cars at a time for the 100 yard ride across the Rio Grande, it's a way for the people on the US side to visit their relatives in Mexico. We didn't get a picture of the Boarder Entry on either side but they were there. The area around Los Ebanos looks like you are in Mexico, very poor. The guy at the Ferry Fee Booth charged us $1 ea to walk down to the Ferry, when we came back up the Boarder Patrol yelled at us to check...

Dec 1, 2012 - Having great weather

The past week flew by, we have been back to Mexico to get a few things, had a great lunch, the restaurant is on the second floor, great food,service and price, you also feel safer there being off the street, they also have best Margaritas in town. Also picked up some booze we needed. Got a juicer so we now have fresh Orange juice every morning, Grapefruit aren't ripe yet. Went to lunch with our neighbor, they took us to a new place, called Riverside Club, it sits on the Rio Grande so you are within throwing distance from Mexico. We noticed...

Nov 22, 2012 - South Padre Island

Saturday Nov 17 went to South Padre to have lunch at Dirty Al's, we love the huge Gulf Shrimp they serve. Was a great day for a ride on the Bike, we made a big circle, went down on the Expressway and came back on a road that follows the Mexican boarder. On Monday Nov. 19th went to Mexico to check on our medicine, can get it a lot cheaper there plus if we are getting close to our donut hole with Humana we can get meds there and not have it turned into Humana, thousands of US and Canadian retires travel here for this purpose and to get...

Nov 19, 2012 - Day 7 & 8 - Tunica, Mississippi

Leaving Cave-In Rock, we were unable to take the ferry across the Ohio River because it was so foggy that they couldn't run the ferry. We had to drive about an hour out of our way to get to a bridge and when we crossed it, it was still extremely foggy so we would have still been waiting for the ferry. We finally stopped at a McDonald's for a quick breakfast and used the free WiFi to locate a Guy Fieri BBQ restaurant in Memphis for lunch. When we arrived, we found that it didn't open until 4! So we had a rough trip to Tunica! We arrived in...

Nov 12, 2012 - Looking for birds in the area

Road around the area coast to see these birds, they are so pretty and graceful. It was very cool today, around 69 or 71 with strong wind. Not sure of the names of these birds yet, haven't gotten a book on them, hope to go to the National Refuge tomorrow. Tuesday 6th we visited the National Refuge, wish it had been a better day, very windy and cold plus I still didn't feel that great. Real nice Workampers at the visitor center, one lady was from Montana and the other from Oregon. There were quite a lot of Whooping Crans but they were too far...

Nov 11, 2012 - Port Arcansas and Mustang Island

We visited Mustang Island today, rode a Ferry from Aransas Pass to Largest town on Mustang Island, Port Aransas, it took all of 4 or 5 minutes. It was very windy, the picture of the water shows how rough the Gulf Of Mexico was. On the way back to campground we rode by the Historic Fulton Mansion,built in 1877 noteworthy architectural style, unique construction methods and advanced mechanical systems — which featured gas lighting, central heating and indoor plumbing with hot and cold running water. The house sits about a block off the water,...

Nov 7, 2012 - Rockport Texas

Check out the BIG TREE, it is 1000 years old. They have several cables on it trying to save some of the huge limbs. Nice campground with friendly people. Having a good time, weather is great, upper 70s in day and low 60s at night and a lot of Sunshine. I came down with Bronchitis went on meds tonight. Drove along the Bay, really nice homes, most had boat docks in back. Hope to go on the Birding trail in a couple days, I'm sure we will see some beautiful birds.

Nov 6, 2012 - Victoria Texas

Got to Victoria around 4pm, long trip today and had to come through Houston, must have been 40 or so miles across, I really hate going through big cities, when possible we avoid them. Really nice campground and the owners were super nice, the guy leads you to your site, uses sanitizer on water spigots and sewer hookups then gives you a thank you note for staying with them. This campground has Ducks, not sure of the breeds.

Nov 5, 2012 - Into Texas

Arrived campground in Garrison Texas late on Monday 5th, nice place with a lot of Deer running around, as you see in the pictures they are different from what we have in Virginia. The Sika Deer were native to Southern Siberia, Japan and China, the Fallow Deer are native to Mediterranean region of Europe and Asia, both breeds were transplanted to several regions in Texas.

Nov 4, 2012 - Vicksburg MS

Our first visit to Vicksburg MS, touring the Battle ground was great, you enter the Union first, there were numerous monuments from Northern states. It was a long drive before we entered the Confederate side. Wasn't too impressed with town of Vicksburg. Hope to leave here today and head to Texas, it has been raining, waiting for it to quit.