Donner und Blitzen!

No, no, no, not Santa’s Reindeer – but the literal translation.

Let’s see if this helps;

“The Lightening Flashed, the Thunder Roared and all the World was Shaken”

“The Little Pig curled up his Tail and ran to save his Bacon”

Get it now?

Yes, the Thunder and Lightning that started on the way to and from New Orleans, just got worse and worse and worse and the rain that came crashing down with it was like being under a waterfall!

It sat over the top of us until 4:00am, when it settled bit and the rain eased off.

By that time, all the Electrical Power and the Mains Water throughout the RV site was off, which didn’t matter to us, as we had plenty of battery power and an onboard generator if we needed it and we always keep our fresh water tank half full, which lasts us for two full days at full usage.

So, with light rain and heavy clouds, we loaded up and set off on the next part of our trip, across Louisiana to the Texas town of Beaumont, about 300 miles away – little did we realise when we set off, what an eventful journey it would be!

That morning, there was still a very strong South Westerly wind blowing that buffeted the RV from side to side almost the whole journey and as we travelled across Louisiana, we crossed mile upon mile upon mile of concrete slab road, which was like driving on a corrugated sheet, shaking both the RV and us for at least 150 of the 300 mile trip  –  Ahhhhhhhhh.

With all the rain that had fallen, the State of Louisiana was very badly flooded, with houses and vehicles under water and herds of cattle stood in fields of water.

As we got further west, the clouds cleared, the sun came out and the winds died down (a little) and the roads on the west of Louisiana and going into Texas were fine, so we settled down to try and enjoy the countryside and the scenery.

However, we were very relieved to be pulling into the RV Park (the Gulf Coast RV Resort), in the early afternoon and we burst into song  –  you know the one, go on, you sing it.

“Zipperdy do da, zipperdy ahh, my, my, my, what a wonderful day, plenty of sunshine coming my way, zipperdy do da, zipperdy ahh!”

Well done! That sounded pretty good.

Usually we sing that song three or four times, but this time we didn’t, as we were getting some funny looks from the other RV campers, in fact they didn’t look a very happy bunch  –  We were soon to find out why!

We went into the office, paid the money and they directed us to our site (for two nights), but as we were setting up, it became apparent that ‘our’ site, near the front of the park was very noisy from the I-10 interstate road.

So, we went back to the office and asked to be moved further into the park, away from the traffic noise.

They moved us to a site right at the back of the site, which we found out very quickly was just a hedge away from another damn road, which was just as bad – Grrrrr

So instead of staying two nights that we had planned, after yet another bad night due to noise (that’s 1 from Thunder and 1 from Traffic), we packed up and left the next morning to drive another 300 miles into Texas and are we glad we did, because the next few days were really great.

You will have to wait for us to tell you more about it in the next blog!!!!