On the ROAD day 35 - An excercise in CONTRAST

Walmart Campgrounds - Hammond, LA
Miramar Beach Campground - Oh My!

From sea to shining sea....in 5 days!

As you can see by the "day count" that we have gotten off.........somewhere.........I guess when your "on the road" for 7000 miles you can do that........real easy. Anyway.....somewhere back around day 33 we stirred out of our slumber in the Kerrville, TX Walmart at about 6 AM.......got some "brown juice" to get the other half of my heart going........and hit the road again for another "power drive" to Hammond, LA.......to another Walmart Campground. This one was quite unique.......with so many lights in the RV parking area that you couldn't tell when the sun went down. We arrived with about an hour of day light left so after a great dinner - imitation crab meat scampi, salad & leftover asparagus - we watched a movie on our computer (that we got out of the $3.00 bin at Big Lots) and went to bed. Our alarm clock was a truck mounted parking lot cleaning vacuum at 4 AM that had to make sure they got every little piece of trash from around the Mighty Toyota........the Mighty Toyota is not very sound proof. Since we really couldn't go back to sound sleep after that we decided to get up and get moving around 5:30......so with another dose of "brown juice" we headed toward Florida.

We pulled into our next "campsite" a little after 12 noon.......wow......what a contrast. One of the couples from the church where Darcie is speaking this weekend owns this beautiful beachouse in Miramar Beach and is letting us stay for the two days we are here. The Mighty T just fit in the driveway and with electric & water hookups we could have stayed very comfortably...........but we chose the house.......go figure. We're just praying the Mighty T isn't insulted and chooses to rebel on the last 300 miles home on Monday. Maybe I should at least wash it to get some of the road grime off.......... after all.........this is a "gated community".......and the Mighty T needs to maintain some dignity in its "old age". You can see by the beach picture that the occupants of the Mighty T have all sorts of dignity..........my VOM "I'm a criminal" T-shirt was almost clean!

Darcie is speaking at a brunch today and 2 churches tomorrow. We hope to drive a little toward "home" tomorrow night after the meeting and spend the night in one of Florida's "world famous" rest areas........... so it's back into a radical CONTRAST again.

Blessings.........Tim & Darcie