Port Allen, LA

Today we made another short 3 hour drive to Port Allen, LA. It's just across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, LA. Lots of oil refineries & sugar cane around here. We spent the afternoon doing lots of nothing. Patches is becoming something of a night critter, loves going out after dark and a lazy stroll on her leash.

Gulf shore in LA

We took a ride down to the gulf to see what it looks like, not as nice like the wide white sands of Biloxi or Gulf Shores. Not nuch down here, if you work here it's either in the oil or fishing industry. We did take a nice 5 minute ferry ride for a buck as there was no bridge crossing one river.

Lake Charles , LA

We made the short 3 hour trip to a very nice small (8 sites) parish park called White Oak Park on the Calcasieu River outside lake Charles, LA. We will hole up here a R&R a few days from the HHAI rally we just left, alone time. The two water pictures were taken from the dock at the park. It's a busy boat launch, lots of fishing going on.

Rally's over & time to move on

Here's another picture of happy hour Friday night. We continued Saturday & Sunday nights too. Let me introduce you to Tank, he's a very cute character and he knows it too.

In the morning we are off to Lousiana for thr Angola State Prison Rodeo this Sunday. It's an easy two day trip so we'll be doing some exploring somewhere on the way.

HitchHikers of America International (HHAI) rally pics

Here's some pictures of the rally, one is a seminar on waterless washing & waxing RVs. Water is messy and we have seen the waterless work done & it looked easier....so there went some $$$$. The pic of 10 of us sitting & standing is the founding fathers (& moms) of the Haulin' HitchHikers Club. We are from MI, MO, WA, & VA. We started talking about a non geographically based group of HitchHikers (most clubs are based on where RVers live but most of us are homeless) in 2007 in MO and TX & started the club in 2008. We have 59 couples now and are by far the largest and most active chapter of HHAI. One pic shows us having our annual meeting before a pot luck diner. The formal (as formal as we get) pic shows the 20 couples attending the rally (there were 75 to 80 couples total at the HHAI rally) on the stage. The first pic is Mike Mitchell, CEO & owner of NuWa who makes our RVs, ya see the hat he's wearing, he's a member too! He joined us at this nights Haulin' HitchHiker's happy hour. He's here telling the rally attendees what's happening & had 2 new HitchHikers here for us to check out. We like the one we already own.

Happy birthday Judy!

We celebrated Judy's birthday with a few RV friends this evening. I took a break at noon from parking incoming HitchHikers, there were only a few arriving today, & we went out for a nice lunch....chicken fried steak & pork chops. Judy also went to church this morning here at the CG with a few of the other ladies (after water aerobics) while we maned the parking duties. Great weather still.

Montgomery, TX & the HHAI Rally parking

We made the 175 mile trip to Montgomery and are getting ready for our Haulin' HitchHiker chapter to park incoming HitchHikers for the rally which starts next week. You can see the CG is pretty empty but not for long. We are meeting up with some good RV friends we haven't seen for months.