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After saying our goodbyes we got in our car a drove for about an hour and decided to stop in Gulfport for the night. Another Best Western. This is a big facility.  Three levels, elevators, even a night club attached to the front.  And when we pulled in at nearly 10p.m. the place was jumping and rocking and the people were coming and going and the noise level was up there. We checked at the desk for a room and they gave us two choices.  On the first floor quite near the club o...

We had completed many underways on the ship summer of 2005 getting ready for the next cruise we had to do for our next mission,  Unfortunately Hurricane Katrina happened when we were supposed to be home with our families and we headed down south, picking up many many 'passengers' along the way to aide in our Humanitarian Mission.  One of those days we were just 'floating around' and small boats were inbound to us with Mexican Marines.  After they were all on board, we fe...

I am going on a 5 day trip with work and will be stopping along the way and I hope to see some new restaurants and bars!

Since I never been to Mississippi, was due in Slidell at 12:30 which is only a few miles from the border, and had a rental car, I decided to drive to Gulfport and see how the city was looking.  Well, it looked like a ghost town:  only a few signs of life, no restaurants open (save McDonalds, iHop (which i don't count as restaurants)), and barely the amount of cars you could count on one hand.  We checked out the beach, which had some interesting grooves and an insane amount of ...

Took a day trip to Gulfport and Biloxi, MS to see what progress had been made since my last trip after Hurricane Katrina in October 2005 to help my friends clean up their place there.  We also wanted to show a friend of mine that was on this trip the damage first hand.  He was shocked. I have to be honest - there has been little to no progress in rebuilding!  Utter and complete devastation all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  All of the debris and stuff that c...

I decided to take a cross country road trip to gatlinburg tenn. on the way I stopped at friends places and expanded my road trip after the original cabin trip in gatlinburg, I head east to North Carolina to the outer banks, up north to MD to N.Y. withsights in between. after I left New York, I went thru PA to Ohio and spent a week there and had Tday with some friends. I headed south thru WV,VA, IN, MO, ARK, and MS back thru L for a few weeks b4 heading back to calif