NEW ORLEANS, LA 8-11-2017

The news people make things look a lot worse than they are.  You folks have been contacting us, worrying that we are flooded, drowning and floating out to sea.  It did seem like it, for awhile there.  Driving the last 200 miles from Westlake to New Orleans was frightening.  The rain was so heavy that we engaged the emergency flashers and slowed to 35 mph.  Eventually, the downpour abated and we arrived six hours later at the rv park, Pontchartrain Landing, miraculously right on schedule. 

Bee and Jeepster at Pontchartrain Landing

The good news is that the wheel well repair held up.  You’d be proud of us.  You know those Teflon sheets people use for cutting boards?  One of them made a fine and dandy doubler that we taped and sealed over the damaged wheel well liner!  Worked like a charm!  Liaison Engineers at your service!  The roof still leaked though, where the TV dish is installed.  Rob went up top and gooped it up some more and so far it is holding.  Bee has wet clothing, muddy shoes, wet umbrellas and ponchos draped everywhere!  Not the best of times but not the worst of times, either. 

It is drying out a little bit now.  The sky is blue and the sun is shining.  It’s really a nice resort with a bar, restaurant, pool and lots of grass.  Bee is maybe 5 or 6 feet from the edge of the lake.  And if you like movies, every day at 9AM the featured film is “Hurricane on the Bayou.”  For those of you who like saunas, come here to the Big Easy and simply sit outside on a lawn chair.

Across from us on Pontchartrain Lake,
 a restoration project is under weigh.

"I live here!  What are you looking at?!"

Yesterday was an administrative day.  Mostly, doing laundry and packing suitcases.  Tomorrow’s itinerary is a lock.  We’ll put Bee in the storage facility here, grab our bags, catch a taxi to the airport and hop on a plane that will take us to Minneapolis-St. Paul.  We’ll party a bit with my family on Sunday and then meet up with Fritz and Pal.  On Monday, we four board the American Queen, a paddle wheeler which will carry us all the way down the Mississippi River back to Bee and New Orleans, a 23-day trip!  That will check off another bucket list item!

Many more stories are on the way.  But for now, know that we are dry and safe and all is well and thank you for asking.  God bless.