Heat, Swamps, and the BUGS!!!!

I left Deland about 7:15 0n the 27th and was looking forward to a well planned drive and sleeping in Louisiana.




Well, the drive part worked out, but all the road and weather gods seemed to want to conspire against me. The travel temperature was somewhere between hot and just plain miserable!!!!



But along the way the gas prices were interesting...... I paid $3.35 a gallon in Florida. In Alabama the price was $3.27. In Mississippi the price was $3.17 and in Louisiana it was $3.29. I only threw that part in so that you can see what happens as I travel. I am sure as I get further out west the prices will go up some????



I finally got to Louisiana where I planned to spend the night in a rest area on the ATCHAFALAYA River but not knowing that the river is actually a SWAMP!!!!!!!!!!! WELL!!!!! I got out to go brush my teeth and was promptly surrounded by some of the biggest swamp skeeters I have seen. I have not seen anything like these big boys since down at a state park in Hobe Sound, Fl. and a couple other places. These boys were so hungry that they did not even argue about who got what, they just picked a spot and started munching!!!!!!! so after a short pause to take care of a couple of things I jumped back in the truck and headed for plan B.



So I out ran the skeeters, got a few hours sleep and woke up on I-49 somewhere between Opelousas and Alexandria Louisiana. It is now about 7:45 am where I am at and hopefully I will be in Oklahoma this afternoon where I can take a SHOWER!!!!!!!!!!

I just wanna know am I having fun yet????????
{;-)

The Best Laid Plans

sometimes just don't turn out the way they should!!!!


It is that time of the year when Miss Mabel turns toward the West and Mr. Blue attaches himself to the bumper and we all head down the road chasing the sunset????? Well, we really don't chase the sunset, we just sorta go the way the sun goes.....

Anyway I left today on my annual pilgrimage to somewhere or nowhere and actually not searching for anything as in prior years when I was searching for the meaning of life or the philosophy of life and I have finally come to the conclusion that everyone has their own philosophy and/or meaning of life and mine is that as long as I am looking down at the grass and not looking up at the roots that all is good and I will just take one day at a time!!!!!!!

But as I said in the beginning the best laid plans sometimes are not and such was the case the day before I left. I was going one place for the Memorial Day weekend and that did not work out so I am now in Deland for only the night and then I will start off heading more west the morning of the 26th.

This trip takes me places I have not been before and places I have not been to in a few years so I am finally "on the road again" and will write as I go for what reason I am not sure but it just seems to be the right thing to do??????

The beginning mileage for this trip on Miss Mabel is 248,135 and somebody needs to remember or write that down so that when I arrive back home whenever I will put the ending mileage down for a total miles traveled....... I am not sure where or when I will hit the big 250,000 but there will be something written about where I am and what time it is!!!!!!!

{;-)