Location: Rockdale RV Park; Mansfield, Louisiana
This is part 8 of a series of posts where I post a picture or two from a location that I really liked. I call them "wow" spots because usually when I saw them, I said, wow. Since I travel alone, it doesn't matter if I say it out loud or just to myself. Although if people are around, I try to be quiet about it or else they look at me funny as though I'm talking to myself. Now I'm not saying I don't talk to myself when I'm traveling, but so far (knock on wood), I haven't answered myself on a regular basis. So far, so good.
This post gets me caught up to where I am currently, however, I'll be pulling out of here this Friday, 7/29/2016.
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Old style Mardi Gras in Iota, Louisiana |
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Learning about Cajuns, Creoles and Acadiens at Vermillionville, Louisiana |
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The Gulf of Mexico at Grand Isle State Park, Grand Isle, Louisiana. It is a long ways from nowhere, but a great place to relax. |
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Coffee and Beignets at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans. |
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You can see a lot of the town by riding the New Orleans Streetcars. Cheap site-seeing |
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The Battle of New Orleans Battlefield. Chalmette, Louisiana |
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Rebuilt beach houses at Waveland, Mississippi. Everything was wiped out during Hurricane Katrina. |
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Sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico near Waveland, Mississippi |
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A monument to the "Dogs of War". It is the first and only one I have found that pays tribute to the canine corps of the armed forces. It is at the U.S.S. Alabama Military Park. |
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Sunset over Lake Seminole, Chattahoochee, Georgia. |
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Lake Seminole and Liberty |
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The moss draped trees of south east Georgia. |
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The Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Georgia |
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Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina |
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The Georgia Guidestones, Middle of Nowhere, outside of Atlanta, Georgia |
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My lucky day. A tornado or straight line winds flipped the neighboring RV. It sucked the wheel chocks out from under Liberty wheels. This is at Old Federal Campground. |
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Side road while driving the Cherohala Highway in the southern Smoky Mountains. |
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A waterfall along the Cherohala Highway |
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One of the many great view from the Cherohala Highway |
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The Hermitage. Andrew Jackson's home outside of Nashville, Tennessee |
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Watching the tow boats on the Mississippi River in rural Mississippi about 45 minutes south of Memphis, TN |
Ya'll take care of each other. I'll Cya down the road.
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