Have You seen Anybody Who Looks Like Me?

Brookhaven looked better in the morning than it did at night but not much. We took advantage of the "continental breakfast". We were located next to the Walmart and discovered that, for a mere $4.00, we could take a carriage rides around the Walmart parking lot. The carriage was pulled by miniature mules or ponies...we couldn't decide which.

We headed south on I-55 looking for the junction with I-10 which would take us east. Too bad that we didn't have a map...Note to self: next time bring a map. We crossed into Louisiana and kept going until we were in the middle of New Orleans.

New Orleans was not where we wanted to be...we missed a turn somewhere but, oh well, here we were.

Anyway, we found I-10 and headed east, We crossed back into Mississippi and decided to stop at the Welcome Center. We picked up  a map and some route information and Paul had a smoke while I used the facilities. The place wasn't that big but we lost track of each other. They were serving coffee so Paul got some coffee and asked "Have you seen anybody that looks like me?"  The young black woman serving the coffee looked at him funny and said no, she hadn't. So a few minutes later I showed up to get some coffee and asked "Have you seen anyone who looks like me?" She stopped and looked funny and said "Somebody else asked that question and yes, and he gots the car keys"  Paul and I met up outside and were talking when she walked by and laughed and was happy we found each other.

So on we went...along the Mississippi gulf shore. You can still see a lot of hurricane damage. We saw some in New Orleans and some of the trees were torn up in the forests along the highway,


One thing we learned at the welcome center was that Joe Bonamassa was performing a concert at Biloxi this evening, Dang...we could have worked that out better if our timing was different. Note to self: check concert schedules!!!


Once we were past Biloxi we were in Alabama and on our way to Mobile. We want to come back and spend a day or so in Mobile before we head for home. We passed the battleship Alabama, which is open for tours and there are other things we want to see.

Mobile is an interesting place and it looks impressive. We will have to check out what there but I'd like to see Ft. Blakely...one of the last Civil War battle sites.

Bellingrath Gardens and the Jefferson Davis home are nearby if we have time and can find them.

We kept going east and crossed into Florida and went through Pensacola without seeing much of it. By this time we were seeing lots of water and most of the highways were elevated over swamps or bayous.

We made it to our destination in Panama City Beach at about 5 PM but it was already dark. The sun goes down early here on the far eastern edge of the central time zone. We checked in and relaxed. There was an old performance by the Rolling Stones and Muddy Waters on PBS that we sat and enjoyed. The sound of the surf is very relaxing and it was good to be done with the travelling for a while.