Category: Southern USA
Fontainebleau State park – Beach, fire ant attack, alligators, Splash Park and the worst flooding since Katrina
Our next stop after Biloxi became Fontaine State Park, a giant park right next to a beach with great possibilities for camping, walking and just relaxing at the beach. We planned to stay for 3 nights before heading ...
Crawfish festival and Jet Ski on the river in Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi We find that events in the local communities are a great way to get a taste of the local culture. Therefore we planned to visit the Biloxi music and crawfish (krebs) festival. We found a small campground, ...
Dauphin Island, Alabama - Beach, wildlife and Fort Gaines
After our stay in Milton, Florida, we continued on to Dauphin Island in southern Alabama. It is a small island connected to the mainland by a bridge. We chose this destination because of its walking trails and its ...
USS Alabama – Getting up and close with submarines, warships and a fighter jet capable of Mach 3.5
Mobile was not exactly close to our campground on Dauphin Island so we went back and forth in terms of making the 45 min. trip to visit USS Alabama or not. After reading a lot of great reviews ...
Southern Raceway –a real southern experience
We had hoped to find some sort of motor race during our stay in the states, as our boys a very much into cars and just about anything can be made into a racing competition for them (which ...
Heading for Tampa: Dinosaur World, Hillsborough State Park, Shopping at Tampa Premium Outlets and eating so much food at Fat Man’s BBQ it almost made us sick
After spending 3 nights at Lake Louisa we headed for Hillsborough State Park close to Tampa - which had been recommended by Jackson’s parents. On the way we stopped by Dinosaur World which we also visited back in ...
An almost perfect start on our Florida and Deep South camping road-trip
After a good nights sleep at the Super 8 motel in Fort Pierce we were ready to head to the first campground – Lake Louisa State park. The first night of camping is always exiting and as always ...
Arriving in Miami – winning in the usual Alamo car rental lottery and shopping for 3 weeks of Camping
Finally touching down in Miami after a 1 night stopover in Mexico we were eager to see if we would come out ahead in the usual car rental lottery at the airport. We always rent at Alamo in ...