Mar 1st - Beautiful Saturday Morning

Friday

We went to Mobile, about an hours drive from the campground. We spent 3 hours touring the USS Alabama. It was a self-guided walking tour and we did a LOT of walking and climbing up and down on ships ladders. Kathy gave out about half way and she went out on deck, sat in the sun, and read, while I finished looking around. I don't think we "baby boomer", or younger generations, can even begin to understand the sacrifices preceding generations made so that we could have our freedom, freedom that we are allowing to be taken away from us without even a good fight.

One of the “100 places not to miss while in Alabama” is the Dew Drop Inn. They are noted for their hot dogs, and Kathy and I love good hot dogs.  We arrived around 1:30PM and had to wait about 5 minutes for a place to sit. There are maybe 20 booths and 10 tables in the place. When we left, a little after 2, there was one empty table. Their standard hot dog comes with sauerkraut, chili, pickle, mustard and ketchup. (The have a “female” hot dog on the menu, it comes with everything but the wiener) The hot dogs were good, not as good as I remember the ones being at Fort Wayne’s Coney Island, but if I went there today I probably wouldn’t think theirs were as good as they used to be.

After lunch we drove around Mobile a little but didn’t see anything else worth getting out of the car to look at.

It was around 3:30 when we got back to the campground to enjoy a nice afternoon. Thursday night it did get down to near freezing but yesterday was sunny with a high in the mid 50’s.

Saturday

We walked over to the clubhouse for breakfast. $3/person for 2 pancakes, 2 pieces of either sausage or bacon, orange juice and coffee. The food was good. While we were eating, the campground’s Mardi Gras “King & Queen made their entrance, to a lot of fanfare. Even this far away from New Orleans people make a big deal out of Mardi Gras. There will be a parade in the campground today, and there seems to be parades in every city/town in the area.

I think we are headed to the flea market later this morning. Last night the low was in the high 50’s. At 9AM I am sitting outside in a tee shirt, in the shade, and am comfortable. It is in the mid 60’s.

May God bless you and yours.