Itasca State Park, the Headwaters of the Mississippi River. We spent a day there hiking amongst the beautiful red pine forest and WALKING ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER! They have a visitor center with all kinds of information and a scale model of the whole Mississippi River System.
I was bored and sick and tired of cleaning, packing, and selling stuff, getting ready to hit the road full time. So I spent the day decorating our blue boy, honey wagon, or portable waste tank with septic tank jokes.
For those of you who are not campers and don’t know: at some campsites, they don’t have sewer hookups at every campsite. Hopefully, they have a dump station nearby. So instead of packing everything up, hooking our trailer up to the truck and going to the dump station every 2 to 3 days, we dump our black and grey tanks into the portable waste tank. Then we pull it over to the dump station and dump it.
While it is a lot easier to have the sewer hookups at the campsite, if everything goes well, it’s not a nasty job at all. I’m just trying to put a little smile on other campers’ faces when we see them at the dumpsites.
From our campsite, we had an incredible view of Bay St Louis and the white Sand Beach right across the road. The casino is about 1/2 mile from the RV park and there is a very nice wide sidewalk between the road and the beach to walk on.
The flora and fauna in Fontainebleau State Park are abundant. I went on a late-night walk one night and saw a raccoon, and 30+ deer’s eyes reflecting in my light. We also saw an otter in Lake Pontchartrain and several alligators in the “alligator pond” right behind the kid’s water playground in the picture above. One of our neighbors saw a sounder of hogs.
o the 1st day there the owner told me to watch for the alligator in the back pond. He said I was probably OK, it’s been so cold and rainy he wouldn’t be on the bank sunning himself. I halfway thought he was just pulling my leg, but he insisted the gator had been hanging around in one corner of the pond, and they had been trying to catch him and take him to the bayou.
To catch him, I just threw the treble hook past him, reeled it up to him and snagged him. I hooked him and Sherry called Dave, but he got off and I actually hooked him 2 more times before I got him hooked good. I had to fight him for what seemed like 1/2 hour, but I’m sure it was just several minutes until Dave and his helper Jimmy showed up with a catchpole.
As my friends and family know, I love to fish. While we were at Poche’s RV Park & Fish-N-Camp we had a pond about 10 yards from our back deck, a pond about 50 yards out the front of our RV, and a pond about 30 yards from the side of our RV. In total there are 5 ponds at Poche’s. They are stocked with bass, bream, sac-a-lait, and catfish. For my friends and family from IL, bream = bluegill, sac-a-lait = crappie.
We stayed at the Texan RV Park, Austin, TX 1/6/2020 – 1/18/2020. We had a nice concrete pad and picnic table right out of our door at our campsite.
When you close the doors, one or both of the cables would get caught between the door and the jam preventing the doors from being latched. So we needed to come up with a simple solution for toy-haler cables.
