Home!!!

We are home, it's good to be home, but it is also sad to have our trip over. We originally planned to be gone for a year. It turned out we completed our planned route in eleven months. It went unbelievably fast. We drove 38,000 miles, visited 40 states, went to 300 breweries, 38 wineries and took 5000 pictures. We saw all kinds of spectacular sites, natural and man made . We saw a lot of friends and relatives and met a lot of people. We are looking forward to seeing our Dallas friends and relaxing for a while. How long is hard to say.

Texas

We are back in Texas, but not quite home. We decided to spend some time in South Padre to finish off our trip. Next stop - Dallas.

Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge has an old capitol, a new capitol, both very unusual, another "plantation" and some tugs that looked like they were stuck in the fog.

New Orleans

We ended up in New Orleans on New Years Day.
We saw all of the tourist areas.

Biloxi

Biloxi Mississippi, the city of empty beaches and full casinos.

Mobile

Next stop was Mobile, notice the squirrel in the second picture watching Barb take the picture.

Pensacola

We visited Pensacola Beach and toured historic Pensacola.

Mississippi

Third capital in two days, Jackson has an old and new capitol.

Alabama

Next capital stop was Montgomery, beautiful capitol, first confederate white house, civil rights memorial.

Heading West

We headed north through Gainsville, turned west on our last leg home. Stopped in Talahasee to see the Capitol. The first picture is the old Capitol in front of the new one. The second is the new one. Ed, you will be happy to learn that Florida has taken over from Oregon as the ugliest Capitol in the thirty plus we have seen.