Friday, April 5, 2019

1st POST - Home to Dauphin Island, AL


Well, I wasn’t going to do a blog for this trip, but after several folks said they wish I would, I decided to go ahead with it.  LaVerne had a doctor appointment Monday morning (4/1), so we didn’t get to leave until after Noon. Wasn’t that big of a deal since we were only going down to Lake Alatoona near Acworth for the 1st night.  Randy lives close by and he came by for a visit.
Tuesday, we went to Wetumpka, AL and got a campsite at Ft. Toulouse State Park.  Our grandson Jake is a junior at Wetumpka High School and is on the tennis team (which Scott coaches). They had a match Tuesday afternoon with another school and I got to see Jake play (he clobbered his opponent).  We had a nice visit and meal with Scott, Pam, Jake, and Will.



We pulled out early Wednesday morning, hit I-65 South to Mobile, AL, and then to Dauphin Island. The campground is pretty full and the initial campsite wasn’t too good.  Had to get them to change us to a better one.  We were planning on doing some birding on Thursday and Friday, but Thursday was a rainout - rained ALL DAY and most of the night.  Lots of T-boomers around.  Today (Friday) the rain mostly stopped, but it was a cloudy day.  We went out for breakfast and made a Walmart run.
We only planned to stay here 3 nights, so early tomorrow morning (Saturday 4/6) we’ll be headed out and going west on I-10 across Louisiana (ugghh) to High Island, TX. It’s one of our favorite places and we’ll be there several days.




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