The second night’s ball play was not nearly as amusing. A group of guys had slow pitch softball batting practice on the diamond in front of us. They were good. They kept hitting the balls over the fence. Yup The fence right in front of us. Those ball just kept right on coming at us and the other three RVs parked along the fence. Fortunately, they never did hit one of us but we spent an anxious evening waiting and watching.
I often have a soundtrack running in my head relating to whatever we are seeing or doing. Today’s soundtrack is “Nowhere to run to, baby. Nowhere to hide.” It is storm season here and, apparently, everywhere. It rained REALLY hard last night and is going to continue to do so for the next couple of nights. Dave keeps checking the weather maps to see where the best place to be is but there’s nowhere good around us. Hey, it’s supposed to snow in Oklahoma!
We decided to hit the road anyway since we are pretty much in the open here except for the dead tree we are parked under. Maybe we can find a more sheltered place further down the road.
In Port Barre we checked out a city park called Birth Place Bayou Teche RV Park. It’s another not much other than water & electric for $10 a night park. Unless you like to fish or canoe. They had facilities for both of those. If you decide to camp here you call the police and they come collect the fee. But we needed to do laundry and have lunch so we decided to do that first.
Dave took one look at the machines in the Washateria and came back out. He said he wasn’t sure they’d make it all the way through a cycle.
Then he walked next door to Subway only to find they are closed. So we drove to where another one was supposed to be but it wasn’t.
So, once again, we headed on down the road.
We checked out the Corps of Engineers Atchafalaya Basin but they have no campground, only dispersed camping by the boat landings. We decided we didn’t want to be at water level through tonight’s storm so we moved on again.
Finally, the sun broke through, just as one lane of the highway closed. We aren’t doing so well, today.
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we got back on I-10–first time since West Texas. Then we crossed the Mississippi River–first time since St. Louis, back in October.
Then we worked on being in the right lane at the right time to end up on I-12 East as far as Exit 7 where we turned off to go to the Night RV Park.
They are full. But, they have an overflow spot. The manager’s driveway has water & electrical connections. So, we are tucked in between their garage and carport feeling safe from any winds that head this way. And the storm continues and our hazard radio keeps making very loud announcements. So I packed my bug out bag in case we needed to leave the RV during the night, turned off the radio, and went to bed.
Now it’s morning and we didn’t have to bug out. We aren’t leaving either. The storm is headed the same direction we are so we decided to let it get ahead of us. We have good internet here so we’ll just stay put and, hopefully, be safe.
TTYL,
Linda