New Orleans road trip - Days 15 and 16 - Biloxi, Miss.

Got packed up from the KOA in New Orleans. It had been very nice to be settled for a period of time, doing laundry, keeping stuff out on the counter, generally cluttering the trailer up, but now everything had to be stowed away again. The drive to Biloxi was about 2 hours long, flat roads and not much truck traffic as it was Thanksgiving Day. We had prebooked the site but the office was closed for the holidays so we couldn't get the wifi code. We arrived at about 1:30 and got backed into the sites and set up (electric, water and sewer).

The RV resort has a pool (unlikely we will be using that) and a deck area that overlooks the road, beach and ocean.

Aimee and I immediately went for a walk to enjoy the location and the warm, sunny weather. This is a place to hold a beach bonfire. It has to be booked with the county office.

On the side of the washroom building at the edge of the beach, high water marks on the wall.

The view to the west.

Hungry, we returned to the trailers for lunch and then I took my bike of the rack and set out along the coast.

Palm trees and Pelicans are associated with so many trips south; to Florida as a teenager, to Florida with our kids and to Texas the year George retired. I love to watch them glide so elegantly just above the water and they are so ungainly when they land and on land.

Plenty of humans were spending their Thanksgiving Day fishing off the piers and old docks. Plenty of sea birds fishing too. In addition to the herons, pelicans and gulls there were also Osprey diving and flying away with their catch.

Every now and then a Monarch Butterfly would flit by. It can take as many as 5 generations to get down to Mexico and back up to Southern Ontario so it is unlikely these are the same ones who left my place in September.

There is a lot of empty land for sale. I suspect previous buildings may have been demolished by Katrina. New buildings are being built much higher.

This morning I took my coffee out to the deck area and then we went to the Waffle House for breakfast. This will be hard to resist as it is right next door.

My breakfast was easier to get than his.

Our only agenda item was to find a place that Greg and I could get haircuts. We ended up at the mall. On Black Friday! Hair cut achieved, Aimee and I both bought Fitbits on sale (mine had refused to charge any more, about a month ago, I had had it for nearly 4 years). Ate lunch at a restaurant overlooking the ocean - corn and crab bisque and a half order of boiled shrimp - aaaaahh. Then it was home to do laundry, read and try and get the fitbits to setup on our tablets (never as easy as they make it sound).