Mississippi, Bay St. Louis - Wednesday, May 08 2019 - Bay St. Louis and Waveland

We left Waco on Saturday, May 4.  We had an overnight stop at Diamond Jack’s Casino RV Park in Shreveport, LA.  Not a bad RV stop but the casino is getting pretty old.  From Shreveport we headed to our second casino stop at Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg, MS.  We’ve stayed in their RV Park before.  We are here for the sole purpose of eating the fried green tomatoes from Rusty’s Riverfront Grill.

On Tuesday, May 7 we headed for our final casino stop in Bay St. Louis, MS.  I love the landscaping headed in to this place.

There we are.  I find the Spanish moss hanging from the trees really amazing.

On Wednesday, May 8 we drove down out to the beach road in Bay St. Louis.  We’ve been here before so we didn’t do much more than walk on the beach.

Of course we found out that the first beach we picked was a private one.  That must explain the fence we had to step over to get here.  We got out before the shore patrol came by.

We ate at the Blind Tiger several years ago.  At that time the area had been devastated by a hurricane and all of these other buildings weren't around.

We drove on out to Garfield Laudner Memorial Pier.  This is a great area for families to spend a day on the beach – lots of white sand.

If you are early you can snag one of these nice covered areas.

Bring your own tables and chairs

Further out on the pier are areas for fishermen.

In the background you can see the visitor’s center.  There are restrooms and an elevator to the second floor balcony.  This building is new since we were here last.

The view from the balcony was great but a little windy.

Lots of beautiful homes along this road restored or built new after the last hurricane.

We checked out the Silver Slipper Casino in Waveland because it has RV parking with a water view and full hook ups.  Five tour busses were there when we stopped by and the casino was really crowded.

Texas, San Antonio - Monday, October 24, 2016 - Travelers World RV Park

Since we left Bonita Springs, MS about a week ago we’ve had some enjoyable travels.  We were headed west through Mississippi when we saw the exit coming up for Vicksburg and started talking about how good the fried green tomatoes were the last time we were through Vicksburg so we decided on an unscheduled stop.

We booked three days at the Ameristar Casino RV Park.

Just after we arrived this place filled up with an RV caravan, it was a good thing we got here when we did.

The first night here we took the free shuttle over to the casino and played for quite a while and felt lucky we just lost $20.

The next morning we walked down to the casino area and took some pictures of the bridge and river.  The flag flying in the breeze always brings a smile to my face.

The tug boats were out working.

Rusty’s Riverfront Grill was our destination on our last day there.  The sun wasn’t shining on the front of the building so the picture isn’t the best one.

These tomatoes are amazing!!  They are supposed to be appetizers and the last time here we split a plate and each had a shrimp po’boy sandwich.  This time we knew better – we each ordered a plate and considered it our entrée.  There is nothing at all healthy about eating these, the tomatoes are deep fried, topped with lump crab meat and a cheese sauce.  Not something you want to eat every day, but once every couple of years it’s a real treat.

From Vicksburg we decided to head south to take I-10 on west.  When we got down to I-10 which was just inside Louisiana we remembered a casino campground that was just a ways back into Mississippi on I-10 so we headed that way for the night.  We stayed one night in Bay Saint Louis, MS.  We decided we were having a real hard time getting out of Mississippi.  I'm usually so intrigued by just looking at the Mississippi I forget to take a picture, did get one decent one this time.

As we were coming into Louisiana they were burning the sugar cane fields.  This is a picture out of my side window.  We could see the smoke from the fires in several areas.  As I understand it it is illegal to burn the cane fields now but the fines are so low the farmers feel it is worth the fine to get rid of the leaves from the cane so it is easier to harvest.

We stopped at one of the few rest areas along I-10 in Louisiana to have lunch.  From where we were parked I could walk underneath I-10 for some pictures.  This is looking back east.

This is looking west.

Not too far down the road from where I was taking pictures underneath I-10 there is water under the road.  I think this stretch of road is called the bridge over the basin, most of it is through water.

I love this bridge, it looks like you are just going to drop off the other side.

I-10 through Louisiana is a really rough road, not so much from potholes, but it is made of concrete and just beats on you.

Before we made our way through Houston we decided to stop about an hour and a half away in Vidor.  Greg had picked the Boomtown USA RV Resort as our stop based upon the information he saw on the Good Sam website.  Good Sam needs to update their pictures and description.

This is a picture of the office.  This is the only picture worth taking.  Our site had full hook ups and it was off the highway (barely) that's all I can think of to say nice about it.  I-10 runs right by it and traffic runs on that road all night long at 75+ miles per hour.  We won’t be making a return trip.

Welcome to Houston.

The Houston skyline is awesome.

Tonight we are staying at Travelers World in San Antonio, TX.  The office looks pretty plain Jane but this is a really nice park.  It is right next to an extension of the River Walk that is downtown so you can go walking, jogging or bike riding along a very nice paved trail.  We are only here for one night this time (we were here for two weeks in 2013).  We decided to take the city bus into town to have dinner on the River Walk.  The bus stop is just across the street from the RV Park.  We managed to figure out where we needed to get off and found our bus to bring us back home when we were done.

The River Walk is just an amazing place.

This was our view on the patio of the Original Mexican Restaurant.

Once again we were saying “we should have split a meal”, we brought home lots of leftovers for later.

Mississippi, Meridian - Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - Bonita Springs RV Park

Our last night at Stone Mountain I was hoping to get a nice sunset picture.  We walked down to sit on the bench at Serenity Park after supper to wait for the sun to go down.

We saw the rowing team.

A lone fisherman.

But, no pretty sunset.

Our trip through Georgia and Alabama looked mostly like this – lots of trees to look at.

For a while it looked like this when traffic came to a standstill for several minutes in a construction zone.  This view is still disconcerting to me even though I know this truck is being towed.

The race track at Talladega is gearing up for the races this coming weekend.  We’ve not been to this track, will have to put it on the list to see on another trip back to Mesa.

We crossed the Mississippi line listening to classic country music on the Willie’s Roadhouse station on Sirius Radio.

We are spending the night at Bonita Springs RV Park in Meridian, MS.  Not sure what the significance is of the railroad signs.  I guess if a train comes through in the middle of the night I’ll find out.

Seems to be a decent place to spend the night.  Level concrete pads and full hook ups.  Not very scenic for a walk tonight but that’s ok.  We’ll be headed out early in the morning.