Travel Blog

Sorry we've been incommunicado lately. I do have good excuses. I was sick as a dog for about 35 hours a couple of days ago. I figure I was due for a good purging, though, so don't feel too badly for me. Once I puked I started to feel better. But anyhoo, from Tennesse and the farm, we motored not too far south to Holmes County State Park in Mississippi. It was a nice park, and the one ranger we talked to was really friendly, which was a good thing since we ran out of gas and had to bum a ride with him to the nearest diesel place along with our 5-gallon jug. Ooops. It was and wasn't our fault that we ran out of fuel. On the one hand, we did wonder out loud to each other if we should fill up before we took the Natchez Trace Parkway, but we only had a couple hundred miles to drive, and our gauge said we had plenty of fuel to get there, so we decided to just go on ahead without filling up. We got down to our gauge telling us we had about 40 miles left before empty, but that was fine, because at that point, we were pulling into the park. No problem! Well, we think the problem was all the hills and valleys until we got to our spot, because all of a sudden we went from 40 miles to 0, and we weren't even done parking the rig yet. So we parked quickly and unhooked hoping the gauge would go up a bit once we weren't towing the RV anymore (and once we weren't slanted on a big hill). Wrong! It stayed at 0. It was after 5:00 p.m. at this point, and we didn't want to risk running out of gas on a cold night in the middle of nowhere, so we left our poor, empty truck where it was and called it a night. First thing in the morning, we walked over to the Ranger Station and first asked where the nearest diesel place was, and secondly asked if the ranger would be willing to take us there. He was willing right off the bat, and was very nice about it all. I think there may be something to this "southern hospitality" thing afterall.

An RV spot at Holmes County State Park:

That evening, I got sick, so we didn't really do much of anything. But we did get some company that I dragged myself from the bed to go and visit with:

That was my first non-roadkill armadillo sighting, so I was very excited about it. I must have stayed out and watched him for about an hour. Very cute. He didn't seem to mind me too much either. I hope he got some of the good food I vomited up the night before before all the vultures got to it.

It was too cold to go hiking or anything, so we decided to move southward and try to find some warmer temperatures. We are currently in Natchez, Mississippi (sitting in the public library since we can't use our wifi at the state park here), and we did a walking tour of the town today and some other stuff I will share as soon as I get the pictures resized and uploaded.

So that's our story. No one seems too interested in hiring us right now (even though we think we may have two offers coming up for the summer - keep your fingers crossed), so we're just going to keep bumming around various state parks until we run out of money. We'll hopefully have internet capabilities as we go, so we'll try to keep this site as updated as we possibly can.

And my previous post promised some Great Dane pics, so we'll start with this one: