Louisiana

Five acres we stayed on in Louisiana

We pulled in to our friends house in Homer Louisiana  on Monday October 3rd. Our jacks for the fifth wheel beat us there . Charlie got started putting them on. We found the brackets were a little different so had to buy a small grinder to help with the installation. We finally got them on and working and boy did it feel good to get unhooked from the truck. We were able to go to the store and look around to see what we could see. Our friends Maryland and Gilbert we met last year in Deming New Mexico and they spent part of the winter in Alamo too. They had bought a home on 5 acres and were working on fixing it up. They had electric , sewer, and water hookup for us so it was nice. Gilbert had a critter working over his lawn thinking it was armadillo. He got a trap and the next day he found a opossum in it .He sprayed it with a little green paint  to see if it would come back .It didn’t come back but another one came to his trap. It was fun to see what was going to be there next.



There neighbor had some goats and they were so cute. They had collars on and bells on there collars .

Lake Claiborne

Lake Claiborne

We went to lake Claiborne it was about 8 miles down the road from them. The water was pretty low they were draining the lake to fix the walls. There are a lot of homes on the lake it is a pretty lake. Northern  Louisiana  is pretty dry. We were there for a week our internet roamed on another tower and was very slow. We had a nice visit and headed to find a park for the winter. We are now in Beaumont Texas looked at a few here. We think we found one in Lake Charles Louisiana headed there tomorrow. Our grandson and future daughter-in-law got their first deer and our boys got theirs too. So proud of them all.


More to come Ginny

On our way south

Lake Arkabutla

We went into Mississippi .Stayed at Hernando point . We were on Arkabutla Lake. While I was checking us in Charlie was unhooking the 5th wheel and one of our front jacks fell. Charlie got it back up on the truck . But we had already paid for 5 days so we stayed hooked up and relaxed. So we remained hooked up. Charlie took the jack off to find we had broken threads on the jack it would not go up high enough to take the truck out and hold. We called the Rv store 25 miles away and they were going to call us back but never did. We found some jacks online and ordered them. We had them sent to our friends  house in Louisiana.  About 300 miles away. That worked out for us as we were headed that way. We just had to keep hooked up. So the parking lot had to be good size for us to come in. Walmart or large grocery store shopping center. We needed a few things washed no sewer in this park. We couldn’t run our washer. They had a big sink at the bathrooms outside for people to wash there dishes in so I got water there and washed some things and hung them on my rack. I even got a blister from wringing the clothes out. Hope I don’t have to do that very often. But it worked in a pinch. I walked around  lake shore it is very pretty.

sunset on Lake Arkabutla

lake Arkabutla

  You can see where the water was when the flood came in earlier this year the ground is still soft in some places. You can see the prints of the deer , raccoons and other critters around the  water. I could see the turtles in the water .They were climbing on a log, sticking out of the water.

Turtles in the lake

     
This is a very popular campground and they have a lot of sights reserved. I talked to a couple fishermen they said they set lines out for catfish and do real good. 
When we left there we went to Greenville Mississippi. We drove to one casino on the river we couldn’t park in the parking lot was on a slant all the way to the Mississippi river .I wouldn’t have wanted to even park my car on that hill.

Casino on the Mississippi river

We stayed in the parking lot of a casino on the Mississippi river called Harlow. It was a small casino but a big parking lot worked good for us. We left there and went over a large bridge connecting Mississippi to Arkansas.  While traveling through Arkansas  into Louisiana  we saw a lot of cotton fields. They were harvesting the cotton and they had big bales of cotton all over the place. It was very interesting to watch them cutting it.

cotton bales

Harvesting cotton

We came across a truck hauling scrap medal that ran off the road blocking traffic for hours. We watched them set his truck up and haul it away. He went through the windshield they said he was just shook up. I was glad he wasn’t hurt worse than that .

wreck on the road

We got behind on our blog as these places didn’t have internet service very little phone too.

We went by some bayou's the water was green.

We made it to our friends house in Louisiana more to come . Ginny