Carol is finally getting her bucket list Bob Seger Concert! Last time we chickened out because of the cost, and then he cancelled all the shows due to health problems. And then he announced his Second Annual LAST ROAD TRIP! We bought 2 good seats in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Main Floor, 5th row center! Show is today, October 10, 2019.
We tried really hard to preplan, something we’re terrible at, something that is generally required with this monster new bus of ours. With every campground everywhere virtually full all the time, we have to plan every stop to be sure they have room for us. As I write this, we’re sitting out on our patio, in the best biggest site in this place, a site we only have for 2 days because some sort of “stick and ball game” is going on this weekend. It’s 600-ish miles from Sevierville to Baton Rouge. The concert is on the tenth. Granddaughter Willow’s birthday party was on the 7th. So we left on the morning of the eighth and were supposed to have 2 easy 300 mile days to get here, right?
Wrong.
First, I screwed up and made our reservations here (Baton Rouge KOA) to arrive on 10-9 and leave on 10-11. Only 2 nights, arriving a day earlier than I’d wanted to. something about a game, and everything full over the weekend.
And then, I made our first stop in Gadsen, AL. I’d wanted to stay at http://www.noccalulafallspark.com/ But couldn’t reach their campground on the phone. We ended up at this little place next to a very small lake. Carol said it reminded her of a baseball field. It was new, and the trees hadn’t been planted yet.
I programmed the GPS for the next day, and it said FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FOUR MILES! And I said WHAT? But that was it. Due to our lack of skills at planning, we had a 200 mile day followed by an almost 450 mile day. But we survived.
The Baton Rouge KOA is really nice. The pool is still open. They have the typical KOA Dog Park. While most of the sites are a bit thin, Site 41 is amazing. An end site with a huge patio (concrete site and patio) table and chairs, brick firepit, and cute little pergola with a cute little swing.
I asked the office to watch for a vacancy. We have 2 loose days coming up. Our next hard stop is Gulf State Park, which could be a 1 day run, if they’d had an opening. But we’ll make it 3 with a stop outside Mobile. Unless we can stay here.
As I got a minute, I’d like to introduce you to Bruce. Bruce is our new Chicken, and he will come with us always. He gets a spot up front, and every camp site will feature a picture of Bruce.
I’m also gonna be trying to better organize this blog, learn my way around the new WordPress block editor (Gutenberg?) and add categories for Campground Reviews and Restaurant Reviews, and stuff like that.
And… I’m going to start each and every day by writing a blog post. Traveling or not, every day. I figure it will take me 2 years just to get caught up on all the campgrounds we’ve been in and restaurants we’ve eaten at. Every Day. Good day!
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