Pictures from Cody...

Finally!!!  a chance to get the pictures uploaded in a reasonable amount of time.

what you see on the drive to the Cody Shooting Complex where Dan did his thing

another view as you drive to the complex

those two previous pictures...this is what awaits     

behind....whoda thunk

driving into the complex

a view of the new Skeet Range

a look at the 200 yard line with targets attached

the guys and gals hangin' in the Taj Mahal

more telling of stories and or lies

on the line fixin' to get ready to shoot

yeseriee, I'm ready for my closeup

ready, aim......

FIRE!!!

The Shoshoni River

Episcopal church across the street from the campground

and Dan taking the picture

some of the guys comin' in for food at The Irma

Steve attempting to be our server

our table chewin' the fat...the guy sitting across from me won the Picket Match and was the guy laying down to take his shot in one of the previous pictures.  He and the guy with the suspenders shoot a lot of matches together all over the place.  They are sooooo funny telling stories, spent most of the night wiping tears from my eyes and trying not to shoot water out my nose

more of the group drinkin', that's what decent shootin' men do ya know

taking more drink orders

Dan thought the prime rib was the best...can ya tell

When we left The Irma we took a ride up to Skyline Drive, as the name suggests it runs along the top of a hill and overlooks the city looking northwest...WOW is all one can say!

deer that were standing in the middle of the street when we arrived

they just continued on their way stopping only graze on the plants in everyone's yards

the sunset form Skyline Drive

The next few pictures are of a gorgeous Victorian house that was under renovation...it was still beautiful!  They probably have the absolute best location in the world...you'll see in the last picture!

Last 2 days on the road...Clinton, MS-DeFuniak Springs, FL-HOME

I'm sure the fact that we were so close to home made the time go by soooo sloooowly.

 entering Alabama

Not too long after entering Alabama we came upon the Tombigbee River.  Dan remembers there is something important about the Tombigbee River (I just love saying that...Tombigbee, just rolls off your tongue).  So I whip out the iPhone and Google Tombigbee River and start reading Wikipedia's story, you know you can believe it if Wikipedia says it's so.  As I'm reading about the tug that got sucked under the bridge, Dan is like ya I just saw a video about that, so he whips out his phone and starts looking for the video.  Huh, you're driving, let alone pulling a trailer on a narrow 2 lane road...STOP that, I'll find it later.  Here it is, pretty interesting...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombigbee_River     and here's the YouTube link...the sound track is the best part    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3Rp55bYnI
 

 the bridge over the Tombigbee River

 barge on the Tombigbee River

There was one somewhat redeeming thing for Alabama.  We stopped in Andalusia to gas up and use the facilities.  WOW, wish I had my camera.  This was the nicest, cleanest, most charming bathroom I had seen in my nearly 6000 miles of travel. It was t the Giddy Up & Go (don't ya love the name) the walls, ceiling and floors were tiled in mostly 2" squares, with a few border tiles thrown in for variety, beautiful beveled glass mirrors and nice music piped in.  Almost like being in a spa, go figure some podunk town in Alabama.

 The Florala pharmacy in the city of...yes you guessed it FlorAla, half the town in Florida and the other half in Alabama.                   Bet ya didn't see that comin'.  Wonder who got to decide which state went first?

 At long last, we're in FLORIDA, we're almost home!!!!

are we that close???? Must have missed the turn, Red Level is          5 miles south of Inglis, huh???

We did stay in a pretty nice place in DeFuniak Springs...Sunset King Lake Resort right on beautiful King Lake...bet you didn't figure that one out.  They had any amenity you could want...pool, spa, boat, singin',bar-b-que, cable, bath houses, store and the list goes on...no WiFi, oh well the story of my life.

 King Lake in DeFuniak Springs, FL.  Can you guess what's popping up out of the water???  Give up.....this lake has more cypress knees that Lake Rousseau ever thought of having.  No skiing here.

Sunset at the Sunset King Lake Resort...our first back in Florida

We left DeFuniak Springs and headed south to US20 and then turned east.  This is a part of the state that neither of us has had the pleasure of seeing before.  WOW not a lot of people and lots of woods...have come to really like woods and less people.  Passed through a couple of State Parks..Apalachicola and Wakulla.  Dan made an observation....all of the property surrounding the state parks consists of nice hardwoods and the state parks are planted pines.  Seems sorta backwards to me.  Anyway pretty country.  We'll probably go back for a closer look

 nice hardwoods

planted pines all nice fenced in and secure

We arrived home about 4:30pm and started to unload, since I didn't buy stuff just for the trailer we needed to get the essentials so we could eat and sleep.  It's nice to be home.  We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the sights, things we never dreamed of seeing, but 5 weeks was way tooooo looooog.  And then there were the cats, not the easiest way to travel but we do what we have to do.  Guess it better to have done it with cats than not to have done it at all.  

I hope those of you who have followed the blog have not been totally bored but mildly entertained by our experiences and missteps.  Will be posting pictures from Cody and from the reunion at Ft. Campbell shortly and that should wrap up this excellent adventure....stay tuned.

Saturday, June 11th---Texarkana, TX-Clinton, MS

We leave our very nice park and hit the road early...we really want to get home.   It's been a long time and packing up and moving each day is wearing on both of us.  Leaving Texas we're into Arkansas headed for Clinton, Mississippi.

 We cross the Mississippi at Vicksburg...pretty good size town with lots of traffic and construction

I'm not sure whether we're tired of taking pictures, tired in general or there wasn't anything to take pictures of, but there are no more from this day.  I do know that had we not been towing the behemoth we would have been able to stop and get some really cool pictures.  So many really neat things came up so quickly, you just couldn't get the camera up in time....street signs, people doing crazy stuff, funny billboards, silly restaurant names..... 

best picture I could get of the Mighty River...

officially in Mississippi and on to Clinton we went...

Do you remember how awful the RV park was in Casper, WY?  Well we found one that was worse.  Again, we learned not to believe everything you read on the Internet.  Most reviews mentioned that it was a little tight maneuvering, but they forgot to mention that the sites were all located on blacktop...like a parking lot with electrical and sewer lines every 20'.  Plus there was about a 5 degree grade, which made it real difficult to level the trailer...Dan actually asked to move from the first spot because along with the grade the spot listed to the right.  And there were these big pot holes everywhere from previous rigs putting down stabilizing jacks that settled in the hot tar...it's summer and the temps are in the upper 90's....duh!

We left as soon as we could get ready, not any place we wanted to hang around.  On to DeFuniak Springs, FL and then home...YEAH!!!!