Feb 22 Belle Chasse, La

hi,  
                                         This is the Carnival cruise ship Triumph that was towed in from the Gulf of Mexico and tied up in Mobile.

                                          This is coming into Biloxi, Mississippi

                                      This is bridge over a canal where we started our "Swamp tour".
                          The neat part is that is looks very much like the Memorial Bridge in Kittery. The same lifting setup just this one was built in the 30's and it has a sign saying to call operator 4 hours before needing the bridge opened.

                 A typical house along the bayou

                        Two Navy ships tied up in New Orleans. "RORO's ( roll on / roll off) standby transports

                                      A view of New Orleans from our steam powered paddle wheeler cruise down and back 11 miles of the Muddy Mississippi. ( the only way I can spell is by singing it as we did in early schooling)

                         The Dole sugar refinery next to the Mississippi. They take the raw sugar from barges with crane buckets and dump it into huge pierside hoppers. They produce over a million pounds a day

             well here's the alligator that I was scheduled to wrestle . Poor thing was so small I decided to let it be. plus the water looked to cold to be in.

 we decided to stay here(new orleans/belle chasse) one more day and just veg around the camper. we did drive out Rt 23 looking for Cajun food and didn't find any place we thought looked good so we ate at Popeye's . what a trick, they call it Louisiana's kitchen and the chicken was SPICY and the red beans and rice was very good. got fuel for $3.89/gal and came back to the base. We are on a very large Military base in a nice park. we can hear and see the helicopters and planes coming and going but it's not loud at all and they stop at dusk. Linda says they all go home for the nite. The bad weather they have been predicting has mostly gone around us. we have had some light rain and overcast skys but the temps have been in the 60's.  I am going to upload some photos while the internet connection holds. I have to sit outside to get a free signal from the park. 

If anyone has any place they want to recommend seeing along the way from here to Memphis, call us and let us know. Looks like a quiet ride for tomorrow. hope to make it to Jackson,MS and spend the nite and head up tp Memphis the next day, or at least in that direction. The weather looks colder up that way so we are in no rush.