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.
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.
We spent 2 nights boondocking at Bass Pro Shops in Denham Springs, Louisiana. It’s a beautiful Bass Pro Shops and all the people working there were very nice. They have a nice lake between highway 12 and the Bass Pro Shops that they test boat motors in.
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.
He’s a big boy and there are many bridges he can’t go under and roads he can’t travel because of weight.
In order to keep us on roads that are safe for us to travel, we bought an RV specific Rand McNally OverDryve 7 GPS.
However, what most people don’t realize is if you ever get stopped, they could make you go to a scale and get weighed. If you are over your GVWR or any of your towing capacities, you could get a huge fine. But what is even worse, if you would ever get in or cause an accident, your insurance company probably would not cover you.
