Marco Island

What a beautiful spot! We love the streets that have canals as back lanes for boat mooring! Life is good.

New Orleans

We toured down with Hortense the Honda from Lafayette where we parked Mother, the Monaco. The RV park manager told us that Lafayette and Baton Rouge doubled in size overnight with the damage from Hurricane Katrina.

We visited the French Quarter enjoying the tourist activities: our own self guided walking tour, then beignets and café au lait at Café Du Monde where these wonderful buskers played and sang a rendition of “What a Wonderful World” that brought tears to the eyes of the tourists around us. Very moving, especially when we continued to look around New Orleans where the ghostly apparition of empty streets, houses, schools and businesses surrounded us. The street lights didn’t work but it didn’t matter, we were the only people on these streets. Amazing.

Destin Florida

Camping on the beach, just 100 feet away from the Gulf waters. And all just outside our door. We sat in the driver and passenger seats most of the 3 days we were here enjoying the view, or else we walked the beaches enjoying the interplay of sand and water.
Destin has had a loss of beach front and sand with the various tropical storms and hurricanes that have visited this year. Some houses on the beach had foundation damage where the sand had been whipped away and the community is deciding what to do: haul in more sand or leave it alone.