Not another day... Not another day... ;>)

This RV stuff is more difficult than it looks: Get up early in the morning just to laugh when the alarm goes off. Back to bed to rest from a demanding start to the day.

Get up for showers & breakfast, trying not to let the strain of what to have for breakfast wear you down. Then deciding where you would like to go today, usually requiring the flip of a coin or consulting the weather channel (always turn towards the sun & warm weather). A brief nap to recover from the stress of decision making.

Pack up the rig: 1) slides in 2) automatic levelers up 3) disconnect the water hose and the electricity cable 4) program Judy, our Garmin GPS (as in Judy Garland; never mind, most of you are too young for that one) 5) Hit the road. Elapsed time: about 15 minutes, will get faster when we do not have to triple check our pre-daparture check-list. Of course, at least 5 minutes of that time is spent with our neighbors-for-a-day discussing how we are so busy now we don't know how we found time for work before we retired.

Drive for about 200 miles/4 hours -- off the road by 3 or 4 pm so as not to miss the sunset or happy hour, hopefully not in that order.

Park the rig: 1) Automatic levelers down 2) slides out 3) Connect water hose and electricity (sewer connection if they have it) 4) break open an adult beverage of your choice.

Nap as necessary to re-charge the batteries to get through dinner.

Tonight we drove over to see Debbie, Richard and Chance just in time to catch the Super Bowl. Nicest people in the world. Debbie had enough food for 10 couples, including two huge platters of Shrimp and Crawfish plus a King Cake.

King Cake is a New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition. Cake drizzeled in several colors of icing with a small plastic doll baked inside. Whoever gets the slice with the doll in it is supposed to have a really good year. Plus I think you have to buy the cake the following year. Or maybe you get an all expenses paid trip to the hospital if you eat fast enough to swallow the plastic doll.

Tried the crawfish, including the 'sucking the heads' tradition; have to say not my cup of tea. The rest of the crawfish is like a very small lobster tail and tasty. The best though, were these huge Louisiana shrimp -- made me think of Forest Gump and the Bubba Shrimp Company -- delicious.

Planning to move closer to Debbie & Richard (about 30 minutes away now) if closer campgrounds are not packed with Mardi Gras attendees. Debbie and Richard have a Mardi Gras parade planned for us to attend on Tuesday. We'll get pictures and share with you. Will try to get MLA to collect a few beads......

Signing off from Hammond LA.