Yesterday (Sunday) we drove south from Gibson, LA. We drove as far south as we could go until we drove all the way out onto Grand Isle, Louisiana. It's a little spit of land way out in the Gulf. For several miles, the road that we were on was surrounded by water, at times the road just became a bridge because there was no land. In Grand Isle there is water on all sides, it's part vacation cabins and part oil refineries. All the houses/vacation cabins are high up on stilts. It kinda made me nervous to see them up that high because we were still down low in our truck and it was starting to rain. I think maybe it floods during hurricane season or something like that. Anyway, it was very interesting but there was almost nobody out there except us crazy Californians just trying to see what we could see! Dude got to run like a mad dog all over the beach. He really enjoyed it as he had been cooped up in the truck for days on end driving who knows where. I enjoyed it too but I watched the water closely for tsunamis or surges or whatever might happen. We made it safely back to town and visited Wal-Mart for groceries just to get a little taste of humdrum everyday stuff.
Today we are in Mississippi which is a seriously cool place. We just ate the best barbecue that we have ever had! We split an "everything" platter between us and it was still more food than we should have eaten (we finished it!). We had pulled pork, chicken breasts and wings, ribs, brisket and sausage. Every bit of it was so tender that it fell apart and we "had" to eat it with our fingers. The sides were cole slaw, beans and the absolute best potato salad I've ever had. I should go back tho' and tell y'all (that's my southern drawl coming thru) that we had a several mile hike before all this eating. We arrived sort of early afternoon, so after lunch, which was a sandwich and an apple (so we could eat big later!), we took off in Bruzer (our truck, remember?), used Madge (our GPS) to scout out a place to go and ended up at Gulf Islands Natl Seashore. It was such a nice day, we hadn't had a lot of exercise in the past few days and Dude was raring to go, so we hiked around in the bayou for a couple of hours. Here we did see the damage that had been caused by Katrina. Trees were fallen like pick-up sticks all over and several had been snapped off low on the trunks. It had been cleared, you could tell because the trail was clear, but not all of it. We saw a beautiful sunset and then came back to our "pig-out"!
Tomorrow we will visit Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis (President of the Confederate States of America). I've heard it's really beautiful with a view of the water. Yawn......g'nite, mates!