April 2024 Road Trip

Leaving late morning we headed East on I-10. We exited in Ocean Springs MS and took a little tour of the town, finding the house where Catherine lived for a whole three weeks. Definitely a town to return to, to walk and visit the little shops. We drove to the beach and through the harbor where all the shrimp boats were docked. We had dinner at Hartz Chicken and stayed on the backroads into Alabama. We ended up on Dauphine Island where we went to the beach and saw some major surf. 72 degrees out, but people were in the water. Several oil rigs along the coast. I had never been so close to a rig before. Seeing signs to a ferry we decided to follow the signs, not knowing where to get the ferry, nor where it went. But choosing not to wait 90 minutes until the next available ferry, we rode back to I-10 through Mobile and took the back roads to Foley where we found some Outlet stores and some Clark shoes that screamed “buy me”. How could I resist? We saw the coolest Diner along the way. We drove along the coast through Gulf Shores where Spring Break was in full swing and settled in at a very nice Fairfield Inn in Orange Beach for the night, after walking to a really yummy ice cream shop across from the hotel. We really enjoyed looking at the variety of homes, the tree lined streets and the gulf waters.Read more