Off to Gulfport Mississippi

You feel awful tall

going thru a tunnel 

in an RV!

Saturday March 9, 2019

I don't know how we did it but we were all packed, vehicle hooked up and on the road by 9:15....for us that's pretty darn good.  It was an uneventful ride, with our first stop being about 11:00, but it was too early for lunch so back on the road.  We stopped at the next rest area, parked facing the woods and had a nice long lunch break.  Back on the road and we both noticed that the wind was picking up.  We drove until we hit Mississippi then stopped at the Visitors center.  We took a nice break, then back on the road for the last hours drive.  We found Shields Navy base with no problems, pulled in and were parked just after 3:00.  We hopped in the car and did a quick tour of the rest of the base and their 2nd CG then home for a glass of wine.  About 5:30 Brad started the grill and we had chicken and grilled asparagus for dinner.  We watched a little TV then off to bed.

Sunday March 10, 2019

We got up to a foggy morning so Brad decided to make French Toast and Sausage on the Grill.  After that we got cleaned up and headed out about noon.  First we checked out the exchange here on base, then a ride into Gulfport Beach and up route 90 to see how Biloxi has changed.  There are still 

The fog in Gulfport

at 1:15 PM

a lot of vacant lots for sale, but it has really built back up since we were here in 2011.  After that we headed up to 'The Shed' for a late lunch, it's a BBQ pig feast restaurant that Shane took us to when we were here before.  It burnt down in 2012 so it looks a lot different but the food was a good as we remembered.  We had the 7 meat sampler and ended up bringing 2 containers of left overs home.  We stopped at the 'Gulf Island National Seashore' on our way back just to check it out.  There were a lot of walking/biking trails with lots of people there, but when we got to the visitors center, it was already closed (we forgot to change the clock in the truck, ugh).  Maybe we'll head back there tomorrow to check it out again.  Back home to rescue Rudy and long walk for all three of us, back home for a glass of wine, then another walk for the three of us.  We headed in about 7:00, fed Rudy and a very small dinner snack of pretzels and cheese, we were both still a bit full from lunch.  

 The Shed BBQ joint

and the food we got to split.  It was delicious!!

Two containers of leftovers brought home

Monday 11 March 2019

We got up to a very foggy and heavy dew morning, they are calling for rain so we decided to make a few calls that needed made.  About noon we noticed no rain so we headed out to the  'Gulf Island National Seashore', but the fog was thick there was really no reason to walk along the
shore line.  In town the fog wasn't as bad so we decided to stop at a little town called Ocean Springs and decided to walk around there.  Surprisingly we spent about spent about 3 hours just walking through the shops and checking things out.   I was looking for a clock for the Moho, but didn't find one that I liked.  After that we headed down to the beach area to check that out and checked out the boat at the docks, by then it was time to head back to Rudy. We got home, a call from Mel and a nice walk through the CG for Rudy then back home to do some mapping for tomorrow.  I got a call from Lynne, we talked for a while then it was back inside for dinner.   Tomorrow is another move.