Today is Wednesday and we did not make the progress we wanted to today. In fact I am writing this from BlackWater River State Park, only about 70 miles from Falling Waters.
We got away fairly early, but had to stop at Walmart for supplies, that took an hour.
Just as we were about to stop at a rest area for lunch we had a blow out on one of the trailer tyres. Fortunately I was able to stop without any damage to the trailer, however the tyre was a write off. We limped into the rest area and changed the tyre, but after lunch felt we had to buy a new tyre to replace the blow ou. We drove to the next Wal-mart, which was only 3 miles down the road. They took more than three hours to change two tyres (one of the others was badly worn as well), so we did not leave there until 5.45. Too late to go much further we stopped at the newly refurbished Black Water River State Park. Cath had cooked chicken and rice and we relaxed round the camp fire. We are getting to bed early, hopefully we can get a good start and make it to New Orleans tomorrow.
BlackWater River State Park has been recently refurbished with large, wide sites and full facilities. Near to River play area: tubing etc. Quite busy, book for weekends. $20p.n.
Road Trip 7:.....The Bayou's and Byeways of the South
The plan for our seventh visit to the United States is to return to New Orleans and then explore the hinterland of Louisiana. Immersing ourselves in such exotics concepts as Cajun, Creole and Zydeco. We then plan to move further west into Texas. I say plan because one never knows what is round the next bend, be it good or bad!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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