The first week we were back from our caravan tour we spent regrouping, taking care of some business stuff and visiting with friends in The Valley. One of the things we did was to find a different RV park for next winter and made reservations at Trophy Gardens in Alamo. We had a great time this year at Mission Bell but they are having some internal problems that we did not want to deal with. We made friends with several new people who we hope to keep in contact with via e-mail and perhaps see again next year in The Valley. It is a great place to spend the winter. On March 31 we traveled to Sulphur, LA. Our plan is to leave the RV here as we make our way to S. Dakota to renew our driver’s licenses. We were delayed one day due to a predicted blizzard in S. Dakota. It did not happen and in fact they had only a very small amount of snow. We left on Sunday and got back on Wed evening, driving for about 10 hours a day. We drove through states with not much to see except for the hills, mountains if you want to call them that, in Arkansas and Missouri. It was a pretty drive on an almost new highway from Fayetteville to Ft. Smith in Arkansas. Other than that it was mostly flat land with bare fields and some cattle. The roads in Iowa were in bad shape most of the way or lanes closed where they were making repairs. After returning we spent one day going through the area that was so devastated by Hurricane Rita which went through in 2005. One small town, Holly Beach, was completely wiped off the map. Today it has about 15-25 homes that are sitting up on 8 ft high stilts, a few mobile homes and RVs. We did not see any businesses or government buildings. It will never be the same town that it was. We have decided we would not want to live in this area that is so vulnerable. On Saturday night we went to the local VFW dance and had a good time. We hope to be able to find places to dance wherever we are this summer. On Easter Sunday we went to a small Baptist Church that was having an Easter Special by their Choir. It was great music telling the Easter story.
