Sun Suites Of Gulfport Airport

Jordan left us this morning to head back to Phoenix. His mom is very nervous about him flying by himself for the first time, but I am sure he will do fine. He's already taller than his dad, so I don't think anyone is going to mess with him.

Our next stop is Biloxi, MS…another rest stop before joining up with Aunt Kathy and Uncle Dennis in Prattville, AL ...

... Biloxi, Mississippi - Las Vegas of the Deep South - where we park at the Hard Rock Casino. Gamble all night at the Hard Rock and the Beaux something or other which have been rebuilt since Katrina (I believe the Beaux may have survived the storm having been built specifically to survive such calamity). The rest of the area still shows the affects/devastation from the hurricane - many casinos no longer exist - lots of bare foundations.

Again we got up in time to walk the dogs then hit the road. We had a long drive ahead of us today. The original plan was to stop in Memphis for BBQ for lunch, but after looking at the map and determining how long it would take us to get to Lloyd's house from there w/ the Memphis stop, we decided to do that on our drive home next week. Stacy's navigational skills are not the best, so while Dan was in the back working on his laptop, I took us ...

A nice and early departure from Mississippi, heading towards the wide open spaces of Texas. passed the "Cross" along the way- what a sight. Tonight's stay in a small town just outside of Dallas. Long day, lot's of traffic towards the end. and 10 hours of travelling.

... We are excited about our new venue and although we had thought about Vegas 2 years ago when we sold the Beal House Inn, we were swayed to move to St. Petersburg instead, and although we made many friends (You all know who you are and we miss you) and Elements Global Cuisine became a success, we are pleased to be on our way to Nevada. We will keep you updated

... number of miles that we need to cover we keep having to drive slowly as there is endless miles of "roadwork". It seems a common element in US roads to have 10 miles of roads reduced to one lane only to find to works picking their noses and a small hole at the last 10 metres...totally unnecessary. Along the way we saw a lot of the damage caused by the hurricane to these areas a few months ago, especially "dramatic' is ...

... YouTube it. Very interesting!

We arrived at our camp site on the outskirts of Gautier around 6.30pm. It's such a contrast to where we were last night. There are cigarette buts littering the pitches and the grounds aren't as well kept as at St Bernard. The toilet/shower blocks aren't brilliant either but then again we have had worse.

Miles travelled: 120

Total miles travelled: 9051

Days on road: 75

States visited: 16

National Parks visited: 11

... hot down here to do that, even with Bokeh's fabulous a/c system... So we have officially used all of Bokeh's features except for the toilet and we are still holding out... I gotta say, as much as I feel bad about everyone down here living in FEMA trailers, it's not bad in our trailer... but then again, we don't have formaldehyde off-gassing inside ours like many of the trailers FEMA provided... Today's pics, btw, are remnants I didn't get around to posting. As I ...

... literally and figuratively) trying to rebuild itself, knowing no one except the sick puppy in question, who could I turn to for support and advice? I did contact friends in New Orleans, Portland and other places, but they were not here by my side, experiencing what I was. After Katrina, when all of the animal rescue volunteers descended upon NOLA, you stood shoulder to shoulder with others who were there for the same reason you were. Some (like me) were clueless, some were veteran ...

... work and latex gloves. ¨Everybody sanitize please! ¨ yelled our friendly lunch delivery team, who had been working alongside us gutting houses the day before. We passed the sanitizer around like obedient children, we all knew the dangers of not being hygienic, after all we were all dealing with black mould and asbestos, and also the water that had been sitting in many places within the house for six months was contaminated and dangerous. It was important to ...