Yogi Bear at Jellystone Park

Our latest segment of the trip as of Feb 18th, 2010
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Feb 18th
Leave Alabama Port RV Park and return to I 10. Just follow it west through Mississippi and into Louisanna until we reach Lake Charles. Find Yogi Bear Jellystone RV Park. Seems no one home so call contact number. Bill arrives shortly and we check in, He prefers cash, but I use MC. He tells me business is extremely slow, and he has laid all employees off. The park must have 100 sites, but only about 5 are filled, and those with long term people. We settle in, but find WIFI non existant other than right at the office. DAMN!! We need to get on the system and do some emailing, and do my blog, etc

We were on a flight path of a Air Force Training Facility

Feb 19th
Rest Day, Denice has ear and head ache. Try to get on WIFI at the office but unable until I call the owner and have him come over and reboot his router, then we are able to access. Do our email, and stuff that needed doing. Then just rest and take it easy all the rest of the day. Just have to do that some days. We are down here to spend the winter, so do not need to do something each and every day.

Feb 20th
Another easy day
Buy some groceries at WalMart. Then do a tour of the sights of Lake Charles. Something sticks in our mind about the significance of Lake Charles, but we are not sure what it is. It's not too big of a city (probably 25,000) situated on a lake that is an extension to Calcusieu Lake that in turn is accessable from the Gulf for large tankers and barges. So Lake Charles is in actuality a port city. Lots of Oil refineries and grain terminals on the business side of the lake.


Feb 21st
R & R, and get ready to move on. Out to Steamboat Bills for supper for some real good "Cajun" food. Bill, the park owner, said we just had to go as it was the best in all Alabama. We had Butterflied Shrimp done Cajun style and some appetizers that I failed to remember what they were called. They were crawfish and shrimp baked in some kind of a bun in a creamy sauce. They were very good, but a way too much to eat, so we had a "Doggy Bag" for lunch on the road tomorrow.