Yogi On The Lake
Cindy and I are in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, working at a Yogi Bear campground. We have never been to this state so we thought we would give it a try. We are located about 30 minutes east of Jackson, MS and about 3 hours north of New Orleans. We arrived here around the 14th of September and were greeted with very warm days and cool nights. The campground has been pretty empty except on the weekends when the kids are out of school. All of you know that we like it when there are not a lot of people camping on top of each other, so we chose a site in the back of the park which is pretty much isolated from the busy part of the campground.
This past week we took a couple of days and made a trip to New Orleans. One of my “bucket list” items was to take an air-boat ride back into the swamps. Well I get to mark that one off of the list. We spent about 2 hours riding around in the swamps taking in all the beauty it has to offer. I have thought all along that the swamps would smell, there would be bugs everywhere, and not much to see. If you look at the pictures (which do not show the real beauty) it actually was a very beautiful place. The opportunity to see alligators up close, some less than a few feet from our face, a variety of flowers, the Spanish moss draping from the trees made this a most enjoyable trip.
While in New Orleans we stayed just about 2 blocks from the French Quarters. We enjoyed taking in the sights and sounds of musicians playing in the streets, the vendors selling their merchandise, the crazy people out at night on Bourbon Street, the Cajun and Creole food. We got to see the Superdome, the cemeteries with all the graves being above ground due to the city being only 10 ft above sea level.
On our way home we took the long way and headed east from New Orleans toward Alabama. We stopped and visited a peanut farm.The people that own it actually let us just wonder around on our own and watch how they harvested the peanuts. They even allowed us to go into a couple of buildings that were not open to the public and look at the rooms full of antique toys, miniature frying pans( almost 2000 of them) old cast iron replicas of wood stoves, furniture and about everything else you could think of.
