INTERSTATE 10

yesterday we took the day to go pick up our mail from our mail seervice in crestview, f;...\ we needed to go on a field trip so off we went and also decided to go out to lunch for fish..picked up our mail then found a great little place for lunch and they had FRESH fish so it was delicious... on our way back we were talking to my sister chris when we see this truck pass us with which appeared to have 2 teenagers sitting in lawn chairs sitting in the back...crazy --they looked bundled up but also looked cold....i got the shivers just looking at them.. today we went to fort pickens which is a national park of course got a stamp and also another junior ranger badge... i have been havingtrouble adding pictures to our blog due to weak wi-fi so this is a bonus.. tomorrow we head down to gulf shores state park... all's well god bless to all

HATTIESBURG, MS

off to hattiesburg, ms where we read in the rails to trails magazine that there is a wonderful bike trail that runs for 40 miles..(not that we wather to do all 40) so we looked at the map and thoguht we can go that way and bike the trail...little did we know that the skies were going to open up for the next 4 days...oh we had rain in birmingham but not like the last 4 days... we got out the bikes and rushed to go take a ride on the trail and yes it is a great trail that part that we did only 8 miles as it was starting to rain and rain it did for thenext few days...not only did it rain but it poured and poured for the next 4 days..we did not get to ride as much as we wanted to ... now we are again in alabama and soon will be going down to gulf shores state park for a week where we have reservations (good thing)..after which we will really start heading to texas... just taking out time.. and enjoying evry minute or almost all of it... i just noticed that this one wasn't posted so off it goes...

RAINY DAY

ok so what do we do on a rainy day..find a museuum to go to...we took a drive into pensacola, fl and went to the florida state museuum...it was mostly all one mans collection...i can't believe that one person could collect soooooooo much stuff...coke-baseball-stuff...all interesting some of the coke stuff was stuff we had seen before but there ws so much that we sure didn't realise that there was so much coke collectible stuff..... we are now in alabama on sunday we move on the gulf shores state park where we hope to get some biking in...the weather sounds lkie it might be ok..in the 60's but cold nights... sure is a crazy winter for weather..our friends wbo returned to dade city are enjoying temps in the 80's.... i tried tp postsome pictures but we haver low wi-fi so after about a half hr i will send it on without pictures for now...

TIME TO BLOG

IT HAS BEEN AWHILE SINCE I HAVE PUT ANYTHING ON THE BLOG BUT WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY REALIABLE WI-FI AND OUR MI-FI HASN'T WSORKED CAUSE WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY SPRINT COVERAGE...oops..guess we have been out in the country;; we habe=ve been to birmirgham, al and caught up with tammi shapre who is working at a civil rights museuum helping them out...most fun meeting up with her...a gtreat tour guide even if she has only been ther since november...toured the museuum--walked the street where all the civil rights marches took place--the church which was bombed and 4 girls were killed--went to valcan museuum and saw what birmingham is famous for steel..also went to the oldest baseball stadium in the usa..there might be a major league field in another place but this one the minors played.. of course we ate out...b-b-q--pub--mexician--pub..great fun visiting..

FIRST STAMP

we are ow in chattanooga, tn...the main reason stopping here was sto gett a national parl stamp which ended uo being 8 of them...i also had to buy a new book as some of the reginons have been all used up... so we spent the day touring a battlefield interesting but we have been to a good number of them and i sure can see how they are all interconnected...glad we didn't live in that time..the battle here was one of the bloodiest in the civil war.... lar looked at lots of guns and even more guns.. the weather day time temps around 55 night down into the 30's but no snow.. so all's going well just not in a hurry .....

ON THE ROAD

finally yesterday sat we got out of town...got on the road about 8:30 and headed south...roads were dry snow still on the ground all the way..we even saw some sun and it sure was good to see it...

we met up with some habitat friends  from alfred, ny who we have built with for several yrs..they are on their way to dade city to do another build but we of course are on our way to texas...nice seeing them and catcing up on what's been going on with all of us...it is just a small world....hope the raods are dry like yesterday and the sun may some out again today...

right now we aren't sure where we will put our heads on the pillow tonight but it will be south ...checking out maps and distances...we do know that we won't drive any 8--10 hrs way tooo much for us ahhaahhaah...

life is still good and god bless you all

WALK TO THE CREEK

yesterday lar felt that he ought to take a walk down to the bottom of the hill and take  his gun for a walk ...his last chance to do any hunting before we get out of town...he also needed some quiet time away from the phone..so off he went..after he was gone about an hr i heard 3 shots that i knew came from the creek area...sure enough when he came home he had 3 birds..1 goose and 2 mallards..so he is a happy man which makes me happy..

right now we plan on getting out of town on sat..seems that there are too many things to get caught up on and he needs to have another blood test before we leave..i'm kinda on hold as the rest of the stuff i need to put in the rig will freeze and get ruined so i'll wait till tomorrow then take care of all the food...