It is Green

April 14 & 15/2015  Weather should be above freezing at night from now on????  Safe to head north.  It is spring right:)   Our journey east and north has begun in earnest now, we have medical insurance till April 20 but we don't want to wait till the last day.   Tuesday we traveled from Branson, Missouri to St. Louis, Missouri via I44.  We stopped short of the city at the KOA St. Louis West .   It was a good location to stop before everyone gets off work for the day - in the morning we will take the bypass south of the city.    The temperature was about 67 today a bit overcast and low of  54.   We can handle that.  

Crossing the Mississippi

Barges are busy on the river

The Arch in St. Louis as seen from the bypass I255 east side

From St. Louis we took I70 to Indianapolis.   Changing states as we go across -  Missouri, Illinois, Indiana.   I70 in Illinois has a lot of construction zones.  Many down to 1 lane but no stopped traffic, it kept moving at 45 mph. 
What time is it?  What zone are we in?  And the last time change back!   When we cross into Indiana we will gain an hour.  Arrival at 2:30 will be 3:30.   Once again time to stop before all that work traffic is on the highway.   Tonight we are on the east side of town, at another KOA.... Indianapolis East.    It can be a bit unimaginative to pull into the KOA's on our way across but we feel it is a lot like McDonalds.  You know what your going to get.  The park is always close to the freeway.  The site will be easy in and out.  50 amp - long pull thru.  No trees to contend with.  Back on the road the next day.   Every KOA stay gives you points and we used $25.00 worth against our one night.    Tomorrow we head to Ohio.  It sure is "green" here.   We laugh at that since it is such a change from being in the desert for the last 3 months!

Margaritaville Casino Biloxi

Jan 28 to Jan 30, 2013  On Monday when we came it was very warm and sunny, next day fog so thick you could not see all day, then a thunderstorm today with a cool down following - at least no tornado!
From Cedar Key we ran up to Chattahoochee, Florida and just over nighted at the KOA, it was nothing special but fine for what we needed.

Last year we wanted to stop in Biloxi but we kind of skipped over it so this year we made a point to see it.  Most people remember Katrina hitting New Orleans' which it did; however what you tend to forget is that the eye of the storm actually hit the Bay St. Louis which is just a few miles west of Biloxi.  This city had water 43 feet high washing it away.  Along the waterfront boulevard many antebellum homes went with it and there are huge gaps in the landscape leaving you with the ghost of the past storm.  There are many casinos along the coast but we are not much for gambling, but we do want to see Jimmy Buffett's casino.  We stayed at a very nice place - Majestic Oaks RV Resort.

We had a bit of bad weather while we were here for the most part.  It was so foggy that we decided not to venture out on the motorcycle;  it was just not safe.  We decided not to get wet at night to get to the  Margaritaville Casino it was worth the taxi ride.  So we had a couple of margarita's since we were not driving!

the restaurant has boats built into it for seating

sweet ride