Woke up to a very chilly morning at 40F. Back on the coast Hwy 98 to Navarre, FL where we checked into a new park right on the beach, St Rosa Inlet RV. We enjoyed a spectacular sunset out over St Rosa Island. Next day we drove over the bridge at Navarre to Navarre Beach on St Rosa Island and carried on down to Pensacola Beach and eventually to Pensacola. What an incredible stretch of white sugar sand beach preserve. Lots of shore birds. All the buildings on the long island are built on stilts for the high water and strong winds along the coastline. Next day we drove back east to Mary Esther to do our Christmas shopping at their mall. We got a very nice little living fir Christmas tree (reduced from $14.00 to $4.00) and a beautiful poinsetta (from $9.00 to $1.00) plus a few ornaments, wrapping paper, etc.
On Dec 24 we decorated our little tree and had a full-on Christmas dinner made with a game hen in place of a turkey.
Christmas morning we got up 9:00, had tea with our gift-opening, then went to the clubhouse for their Christmas potluck. We contributed cole-slaw and strawberry/rhubarb pie. There were only 10 attendees but we had a good time sharing good food and interesting travel stories with total strangers. We spent most of the afternoon and evening until 10:30 glued to the TV watching the "tornado alerts & warnings". We saw the live reports of the touchdown in Mobile, AL which was only 80 miles from us so continued to watch the play by play as the storm came at us. We had some downpours of rain, lots of lightening and some gusting wind but nothing that we haven't experienced before in the bus. We went to bed at 10:30 after things seemed settled, I in my clothes just in case...... and woke up to a bright sunny sky with broken clouds. We left Navarre at 9:15 and crossed from Florida, through Alabama, through Mississippi and into Louisiana, travelling 450 miles today. We left I-10 and went down to Hwy 90 through Biloxi and Gulfport, MS to see how much had changed since our trip through there 3 years ago regarding the Hurricane Katrina damages. There is some commercial reconstruction going on but nothing has been rebuilt on the waterfront lots which run for many miles along the coast. Once back up on I-10 and I-12 couldn't believe the heavy traffic heading east. One stretch of road was a 12.5 mile bridge over swamp land. At 5:30 we checked into Frog City RV (PA) at Duson, LA about 10 miles west of Lafayette. Only 42F when we checked in.
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