What a Slap in the Face

Biloxi Ms  to  Navarre Fl   180 miles (via US98/US90 and I10)

Day 50

Warm and muggy this morning, while we walked.  About a half mile from the RV on a wooded road, the biting horseflies found us.  We did an about face, but every so often we seemed to gather a dozen or so around us.  One bit my neck and a few minutes later I saw one on Jim's cheek.  I reacted immediately with a SLAP!  It was a knee- jerk reaction, I didn't have time to gauge how hard I was swinging at his face.  As soon as my hand landed I knew it had put way more force into it than I needed to kill a little horsefly.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!  It made him bite his tongue....you should have seen the LOOK I got!  I wonder if it was some sort of sub-conscious thing?  Hmmmmm....we may never know.  Been a looooong trip.

Soon thereafter we left Parker's Landing RV Park, got on a detour road....in the bowels of D'Iberville, encountered construction with perhaps the world's dumbest flagman...I mean, how HARD is it to turn the little sign from slow to stop?  He had two cars facing each other on the ONE lane road.   But eventually we found I10 and headed toward Mobile. 

On the eastern shore of Mobile Bay is the longest causeway...well, the Key West one is longer, but this one ranks up there.  We turned off of I10 to US98, a scenic road that we've taken many times.  A little bit of everything on it, farms, small towns, pecan groves...until we picked up US59 through Foley Alabama.  Love this town, if we didn't have all the family back in Charleston, this would be high on our list of 'nice places to retire'.  We drove down to Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, discovering that today was their big music festival.  The beach road was shut down in town, but we managed to get around it and back on the beach road heading to Perdido and Pensacola.  Stayed on US90 from Pensacola to Navarre where we are for the next two nights. 

Almost invisible here, an orange oil containment boom, the first we've seen...in Pensacola harbor

No matter how we tried to pronounce this guy's name....it came out sounding dirty!

Ah....finally, the white sand beaches of the Florida panhandle...and warm weather!  Today was a beautiful day, but we spent it traveling.  We were eager to see the local forecast as soon as the cable was hooked up.  Well, it's not what we'd hoped for.  They said rain and thundershowers 'until after Monday, when it clears out of here'.  Guess who else will be clearing out of here on Monday?  We can't seem to win.  I need an emoticon of the little guy slamming his head against the wall here...

Oh...there go the big guns.  We are near Elgin AFB and they shoot some REALLY BIG GUNS off every night.  At least we know what they are. 

The Big Guns didn't bother Brandy!

We are planning to go to Orlando Tuesday.  Tell everyone you know there that bad weather is about to move in!