Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park, Love Bugs & A Leaky Window

Today we headed south from St. Joseph to Robert, Louisiana. We would be staying at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park.

Here was our pull-thru site.

The park had ponds where you could paddleboat.

It had Yogi Bear who allowed Marlon to sniff his underarm.

It had 2 pools as well as a fountain area for kids or kids at heart.

Jellystone, as well as Shiloh, was also well-attended by the wonderful Love Bug.

The front of your car or rv will be plastered in love bugs if you drive during the day in Louisiana or Florida during May or September.

These bugs are mating by the force of the female (the bigger of the two) and travel hooked together. Their splat on your car will ruin your paint if not removed within a couple of days.

Our second day at Jellystone provided us with a huge downpour of rain for about 30 minutes and allowed us to note the RV's leaky window by the passenger seat first hand.

Luckily for us, Dixie RV Super Stores (largest RV dealer in Louisiana) was just 12 miles away. They made room in their schedule for us to come in and have our "loose window" diagnosed. After 3 hours at the service center, our window was fixed. We hope.

After delaying our day-trip to New Orleans one day because of a leaky window, we were ready to head for The Big Easy.

For more pictures of Jellystone or Dixie RV, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2007/september/jellystone-campgrou/ and http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2007/september/dixie-rv-supercente/ .

To be continued...

St. Joseph, Louisiana

The day after visiting Vicksburg, Mississippi we decided to explore the town closest to our RV Park. That town would be St. Joseph, Louisiana, located in the Tensas Parish.

In Louisiana, counties are referred to as Parishes. Parishes come from Louisiana's heavily Catholic heritage. Catholic dioceses are divided into parishes.

St. Joseph was, well, a small town.

To see a few more pictures of St. Joseph, Louisiana, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2007/september/exploring-st-joseph-la/ .

To be continued...

Shiloh's Lake Bruin Resort, St. Joseph, LA

Today we left Hot Springs, Arkansas and headed for Monroe, Louisiana to visit one of our two home parks. However, because we had just called the day before for a reservation, there were no rv sites available when we arrived. Hopefully, this will not happen often!

So we continued down to our other home park located much more rurally in St. Joseph, Louisiana. Here we were the only visitors. While our pictures show other rvs, most of them are either rental units or units people leave on site during the summer.

Here's where we sat...one of the only spots without trees overhead.
Here we are on the dock at Shiloh on the shore of Lake Bruin.

These weird-looking trees grew in the lake near the shore.

Doug shot this picture of the sunset as Marlon bobbed around in the water.

That was NOT Marlon in the water...not sure WHAT it was.

Across the road from Shiloh were fields of cotton. It was almost cotton pickin' time as evidenced by this picture.

We would be spending 6 nights here at Shiloh's Lake Bruin Resort. Due to its relative isolation, we would be doing a lot of relaxing.

However, we were only about 50 miles away from the site of the end of The Civil War (The War, as they still call it down here) at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

For more pictures of Shiloh, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2007/september/shiloh-rv-resort-st/ .

To be continued...