September 13 - Along the road in Mississippi

Bill was up about 6:30 and I followed at 7. Just a quick breakfast today since we were getting on the road. We were packed up and on the road at 8:17, so that was not bad at all. Traffic was heavy as expected getting out of NO since we were going west through some of the downtown before taking the I-55 north. That is a horrible interstate. No better then I-40, as we bounced all over the place. At lunch time things were all over the place again and we got one of our walking sticks stuck in the slide when I opened it. Just waited to close it and pull it back out. I also don’t understand if we can put a man on the moon, why can’t they make a fridge for RV’s that keeps things cold! I think something is wrong with ours as you have to manually change it from auto to LP and it’s supposed to do it on its own. So again nothing was cold in it. I’m going to have to pitch some things that just don’t tolerate a 50 degree fridge.

We did not see a single open rest area on our side of the road the entire day. We combined our potty break with our fuel stop although we were not close to empty. I was really tired this AM so Bill drove for most of the second morning leg. We pulled into a truck stop to have lunch since there were no rest areas. Doesn’t seem too bright to be renovating them all at the same time.

View from our dining window in Enid, MS

After lunch the drive was only about 2 hours so we arrived in Enid, MS at Wallace Recreation Area at about 3:30. This facility was built by the Army Corp of Engineers and it’s really nice. There’s a huge dam that created Lake Enid and we saw fishermen and boaters out. Not many campers since it’s after Labor Day, but there are a few neighbors. Bill was highly impressed with this campground since it was only $8.00. That will help our average for other nights! We would highly recommend this campground. Once we got parked and somewhat level we took Xena for a walk to check out the campground.

I made a venison meatloaf for Bill for dinner since I had plenty of leftover crawfish. We had the leftover potatoes and the bread and I made us each a small salad. Now we will have meatloaf tomorrow night when we arrive in the St Louis area. No TV tonight as the antenna only gets 3 stations and they are all PBS. Guess we are too far from a major city to get any network stations. Oh well, we both have plenty of reading material and I’m going to try to hook up the safety wire to the back of the TV so it will stop flying around on the bumpy roads.

Will have a Hubig pie later…yummy!!