A day off

Good evening, Campers!

It's Silver Cliche' here with you again. Tonight's report comes from Meaher State Park in beautiful (seriously) Spanish Fort, Alabama. Its amazing what happens when you arrive at a campground on the day you have a reservation... they let you in... AND they give you a place to drop the 7 tons of gear that you bring along. That's a fun fact by the way. We weigh in at just over 14,000 pounds for this trip.

Anyway, sometimes there is no justice in the world. One might think that after a screw up like yesterday that I would still be facing penance. There should be a minimum sentencing guideline or something... 24 hours at least. NOPE! I got the day off today. Well, that's not totally true. Since we spent last night in a WalMart parking lot and had nothing more than a 4.7 mile drive today (I think I've got it, honey!) I used the day to catch up on items around "the house". That included cleaning and stowing gear, buying a few things we needed and finishing the set up on the new home theater system. Since a WalMart  Supercenter was within walking distance of our home that was a snap.

I don't want to overplay the value of winding up in a WalMart parking lot. If it was that great, this trip would have been called "101 WalMart nights" and I'd rename Mrs. Cliche' Scheherazade. Here, let me save myself the need to write 2,000 words and your need to read them...

This is your view at WalMart:

This is your view at Meaher State Park.

Any questions?

Anyhow... Spanish Fort. Alabama. We are just east of Mobile and directly on Mobile Bay. This area was accessed and occupied easily and often as waves of European explorers and traders wandered the Gulf of Mexico from the early 1700s onward. Predictably, military action followed. At various times the French, British, Confederates, Union and, yes, the Spanish put military facilities and troops here. It might called French Fort, British Fort, or something else, but the nearly 50 years when the Spanish controlled this area provides the name. The US has controlled this area since the Spanish and British were driven out during the War of 1812.

About a mile or so offshore from the view above is the I-10 bridge connecting the Florida/Alabama state line to the east with Mobile to the west. Here's a simple panorama taken from the shoreline:

Well, that's it for tonight. Tomorrow we head west to New Orleans and a return visit to the French Quarter RV Resort. We haven't been there is about 5 years. My last recollection is that the place needed a good pressure washing. Stay tuned for an update on how things have changed, although you'll have to try and untangle where the things I report as because New Orleans has added five years or we have. 

Later!