GALVESTON ISLAND

THIS MORNING WE DECIDED TO MAKE THE TRIP DOWN TO GALVESTON ISLAND---oops so off we went on a round trip around to the island and back again...we had to take a ferry over to the island the way we went but no on the return trip...the scenery reminded us and several different places we have been in the past...

off the ferry and into town where we went to the visitors center for some info..we decided tp park the truck and go to a seafront museum..which we fouund most interesting..alot of it was about shrimping in the area and how much they bring into the economy...we haven't bought any yet but it is on the list of things to buy one of these days..
we also picked u a brochure about some of the carving you see in the pictures..after hurricane ike went thru in 2008 there were alot of really big old trees that came down ..so instead of cutting them all down to the ground someone decided to carve things in them...so we picked up a map of the carvings and tried to see most of them (there are over 20 or more) so we made a good dent in seeing some...they are of dogs-sea life-frogs-one is of the tin man from the wizard of oz and that statue is in front of the directors of the movie..

decided to eat lunch out and we picked an english pub so of course i had fish and chips which was very goo and lar had crab cakes...

so another delightful day on the road...

FRIDAY THE 4TH

first i'll mention the pictures...lar in his new shawl and beanie with this cold weather and drafts in the rig lar thought he might need a shawl and beanie so i mad ehim one..scenes around the campground this morning..

we got up this morning thinking we might leave by 9am but with the forecast and the weather overnight we changed our minds...finally around 11 we left..but

first we had to get all the ice off the slide toppers which was a job..especially with all the rain we've had that turned into ice..it took us 45 min or so to do this job...but once we finally got on the road they were wet and all the bridges.overpasses were sure covered heavy with sand...so we were thankful that the roads had cleared up and only wet...

the schools closed the night before on the forecast and some of the schools around the area we were at have been closed almost all week..wonder when they will make up the time...

we are now in wallsville, tx for a few days thinking of going to galveston,tx and maye the johnson space museum near houston...

good to have wi-fi in the rig...

it sure is a good feeling that we don't have to be somewhere by a certain date at lest right now we have 3 weeks to get to the next build so we aren't worried..just hope we can see and do as much as we would like too..and the weather holds up and warms up a tad...

WE'RE BACK

it has been awhile hat i haven't be able to blog we have been in campgrounds that we have needed to go to the office in order to get message and no convient way to blog...but now we are in a campground where we have wi-fi at our site...

we are now in wallsville, tx...we have been in lafayette,la ..where we camped at a campground that had several ponds that we couhave fished in but the weather sure wasn't fishing weather..to cold but the birds were fishing...visited and got my first national park stamp so that has been a plus cause we weren't expected to get one here...then we went to longfellows place where the name of his estate was named envangeline after his very famous poem..most interesting and we wer glad we stopped there..

the weather hasn't been all that pleasant--yep we've been caught in the "storm"..we got mostly heavy rain but also ice..this morning we wer covered with lots of ice which delayued our departure from the campground...when we finally got on the road it wsa almost 11 which is late for us..roads were wet and bridges sure had been covered with sand..but the travcel was ok...

picture are of crossing the MISSISSIPPI--sunset at the campground-and downtown Breaux Bridge..

AGAIN A DAY LATE WITH PICTURES

aggain yesterday when i wnt to put pictures on the blog they wouldn't go ao i am trying again today...they are off camaoy road-a typical house on the canopy road-the florida state football stadium-the gouvernor and her spouse-and outside her capital building....

whoopie they all went and i put in a couple of extras...

FLORIDA HISTORY

first we stared off to visit an old country store not to far from the campground thinking that it might be like some of the anmish stores back home...well it wasn't it was an old country store and it wouldn't take much wind to blow it down...most of the items on the shelves wer rather dusty and who knows how long they had been sitting on them...they also had a meat market and said they were famous for their sausage we did not buy any..

then we drove on some canopy roads which reminded us of savannah but not as much spanish moss hanging from them but they were very pretty very narrow roads but we made it back to tallahassee..

lar had noticed a parking lot the day before and thought maybe we could get into it and we did but at the gate we could not get a ticket..so in the library we went only to find out that that lady working the ticket booth ws off and we could prk for FREE we thought we hit the jackpot...so park we did and took off on feetwe then went to the visitors center to get more info..the lady st us to the new capital building and up to the 22 floor where there was on abservation deck and you could see the whole city...we saw the football stadium of florida state which we drove around the day before..had lunch with all the congressmen-lawyers-and who ever else works at the capital building..

then it was across the plaza to the old capital building and their museum we did not think we'd be in there long but 3 hrs later we left..so we are now on overload abourt florida history..most interesting..we had thought that maybe we would go to a different museumm abour florida history but after the capital we thought that what more could we learn and besides our minds were already boggled (maybe they are anyway ahhaha)...it has been a good visit here the only thing we thought we might do and wanted to do was go bike riding but that didn't happen as i guess we are fair weather riders and didn't have any spandex with us (besides we don't own any )to help keep us toasty warm..

today we move on..stopping by to pick up our forwarded mail as we go right by the place...then maybe end us in the mobile area not sure...

YESTERDAYS PICTURES

yesterday i tried to put some pictures on my blog but for some reason they just wouldn't go so i am ging to try agsin today..the internet seems to be faster this moring...

these are from the mission..lunch is being served-insides the chursh where sunday services lasted 2-3 hrs and no benches to sit on ..everyone had to stand..and there were about 2,000 people attending..if a town person didn't attend the then friar went to their house to find out why..one one person didn't have a good excuse and was beaten to death..guess i'd go to church...

TALLAHASSEE

yesterday we left perry, fl in rain and by the time we got to tallahassee it was really pouring and for the most part of the day it rain and rained so we got set up and then kinda held out in the rig...it was not a day to do much except maybe watch a movie (not one we 'd watch again) play some dice and just relax a bit..

today we struck off to the city to go to the florida museum but the parking around it isn't non..excpet for a parking garage with a height limit of 7 ft and can you believe we are higher than 7 ft..so we had to regroup and decided to go to a misssion near by..we are glad we did it was very interesting..it is a mission that they have only been digging in for the last 20 yrs and there is alot more to do..

of course the spanish were here and had an affect..the indians that were here were the apalachee and now there are only about less than a couple of hundred..and the spainard moved them out of florida a few hundered yrs ago and the ones that are left live in lousianna..with no plans of moving back...

we also drove thru the florida university again NO parking so we couldn't get out to walk around just like cornell back home...but swe saw th efootball stadium that we have seen on tv watching their games

the weather has been on the cool side and windyso far we haven't gotten the bikes out for a ride yet but hope to soon...not sure what we might do tomorrow...