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