Recent Trip was …..Fun for Everyone

Taking a trip to Pensacola, Florida to visit our cousins, Ray & Betty, was a very much needed R & R.Ann and Dockie and Charlie and I rented a van and headed to the Panhandle of Florida.We were greeted with wonderful Southern Hospitality which included a gourmet, nutrition minded cook of 5 star ratings.
Betty…..a woman of wonder….grace….competency, organizational skills…..and co-editor to her husbands published works….some still in progress is my idea of….A Woman of Excellence!
Our travel and entertainment agenda, provided by Betty and Ray, took us the first day to Mobile, Alabama to see the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The next day was a wonderful adventure in 2 of 5 of Ray’s Model A‘s which are in absolutely mint condition…we traveled to the Navy Base Museum for the aircraft exhibit, 2nd largest in U.S. (Smithsonian 1st) and home of the Blue Angels….trading in our Model A’s for our rented van in the afternoon we toured the beach area of Pensacola called Gulf Shores which was hit by the eye of Ivan…..Six months down the road, the scene makes ne….heartsick…..
Mountains of sand had been transferred from each side of the barrier island to everywhere…..in places there was just no sign of the previous existence of anything…not even foundations of former homes…..
No words can describe the sights we saw….to include Dolphin Island which we traveled to the next day…total environments have been…..forever changed.
Each night we returned to Pensacola and another of Betty’s pre-planned gourmet meals….What a delight…
On the third day we all packed our bags and headed to Biloxi, Mississippi. Charlie being the volunteer driver, gave us all a chance to talk and laugh to our hearts content…..
Until…..going on to New Orleans, Dockie, using his trusty new GPS, along with many of our own ideas…..had us trying to cross a body of water without using a bridge…eventually down south we did do this by using a public car ferry in bayou land….and was glad to get it since we were miles down on a point of land trying to follow the waterways by car.
An adventure vacation it was…..that’s for sure….
Using I 10 interstate to return from our vagabond wanderings quickly, we were glad to get back to what Dockie referred to as …’our home’.
All in all it was just what the Dr. ordered for all of us to relax from some of our stressful Florida living….and laugh and enjoy The Good Life with…..Good People.
Thanks, Betty and Ray…We loved it, Krystal’s as well!

P.S. Betty and I set up Ray’s book web site, working late in the night (ask Ray…think our ‘computer fun‘ kept him awake)….His second book will be posted shortly…
To view go to:
http://fortnerpublishingco.blogspot.com/
See pictures below….