Lake Keowee in South Carolina

It is a beautiful campground here on Lake Keowee. Very peaceful and quiet. Not many campers here especially during the week. The sailboats seem to sail daily. Someone really enjoys his sailing time.

We were so glad to see the beautiful leaves in their red, orange and yellows when we drove through Georgia and South Carolina. We had not seen any colorful leaves this fall, so this was nice. The leaves were at peak when we first arrived. This isn't something you see in the western states, Florida or in other countries, so it is to be appreciated.

Before:

After:

YUMMY!!

Had a nice campfire after we ate our chicken and veggies. Then we did it all over again when friends came the next night for dinner. We ate outside and had a fire. Ahhh, peaceful and relaxing! We wouldn't trade our life of camping for anything!

Weather:

Ever since we left Glacier, Helena and other northern places we have kept up with their weather. For those of you interested like us, here is the weather forecast this week for the following locations:
East Glacier: Sat snow, H:0, L: -8 Su H: -4, L: -15 M snow H: -4, L: -22 Tu H: -6, L: -12

Helena, Mt: Sa snow H: 7, L: -1 Su snow H:11, L: -2 M snow H: 5, L: -8 Tu H:4 L: -16

Yellowstone at Gardner, Mt, the northern entrance: Sa snow H: 25 L: 11 Su snow H: 23 L: 7 Mo snow H: 22, L: 0 Tu snow H: 13, L: -13

Until next time, Happy Thanksgiving!

Dahlonega, Georgia

Tahlonega is the Indian word for gold, so the citizens named the town Dahlonega, sight of the first U.S. gold rush. Visitors can still pan for gold at the mine.

A quaint town with awesome shopping set in the hills of North Georgia.

Dahlonega, as small of a town as it is, still has it's own military academy, North Georgia College.

The gold on top of the capitol building in downtown Atlanta was mined here in Dahlonega.

We were visiting family here in Dahlonega this week.
Temperature: H: 70s L: 40s
Sunny & clear all week.

Alabama

From the southern Mississippi beach to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to tour the grounds of the University of Alabama. We camped one night at a campground nearby to visit the campus twice. Some of the campus didn't even look like a college, it looked more like a city with red lights and buses driving through.

Then we traveled on to Birmingham to visit family.

Vulcan the Iron Man was created by an Italian artist named Giuseppe Moretti in 1904. Vulcan is the largest cast iron statue in the world and the largest metal statue ever made in the United States.
Vulcan is the Roman god of fire and forge (a forge is a shop with a furnace where metal is heated and hammered out into useful items). Birmingham is unique because of the availability of the raw materials necessary for making iron: coal, iron ore and limestone. By 1900, Birmingham was called the "Magic City" because of its rapid population growth due to the larger number of workers needed to produce iron.

Mississippi

We really didn't spend much time on the beach, but we did enjoy it when we went.

We thought it was interesting that the safe in this bank survived hurricane Katrina even though the building itself did not.

Another empty lot.

Ah, we think we've found the train that keeps following us!

This train was stopped, but we heard the engine and saw the engineer in the driver's seat so we figured it would move soon. Sure enough, we cross a long bridge over a wide body of water and the train also begins to cross the bridge next to us. I don't think we've ever seen a train cross such a long bridge over water. Hope the bridge can support the weight!



After we spent several nights at Buccaneer State Park we moved to Biloxi and camped at the Air Force Base. It was a much prettier area and we enjoy the benefit of using the commissary and Post Exchange on base.
There are large homes located across the street from the beach. They have an unobstructed view of the ocean since there are no buildings on that side of the road.

We also pass a marina.

This alligator was in a small body of water right outside out campground! He looked about 6 feet long. Hunter decided not to kayak in this lake!


Joshua got to have a birthday party at this awesome park on base! As soon as we arrived we saw a South West Airlines jet take off. What a great way to start off a party! The playground was nice and it was next to the airport, golf course and marina!

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY JOSHUA!! WE LOVE YOU!!