Naval Station Mayport (Jacksonville, FL)

Pelican Roost is the Mayport Naval Station RV park at the port just up the St. Johns River from the Atlantic in Jacksonville. The next pictures show ships in the harbor; a ship at sea; a cargo ship coming into port, a submarine being towed out to sea.

Florida Friends

Pictures from top left to bottom: Steve and Wren (Hadley) Simpson's wonderful family in Pensacola, a street in The Villages (a golf cart community), John Miller driving us around the villages, Bernie, Joyce and John Miller, and Kim Rounds and me in Jacksonville.

Pensacola FL White Beaches and Bears

Famous white sands on the Gulf Coast, condos, birds and bears.

Blue Angels Practice and Museum in Pensacola, FL

Camping from Central Texas to the Gulf Coast

This trip has been about people. But we walked away from our first three visits without taking pictures. So we apologize to the Abergs, Hashes, and Campbells. We enjoyed our visits so much, but we forgot to take pictures. These pictures, in chronological order, are of our campsite near Bangs, Texas, where we spent time with Harold and Loveta Campbell. How we got the camper between these two huge oak trees -- very, very carefully!

The next pictures are of John and Kay (Whitehouse) Blewster and Kay's daughter Julanne and granddaughter Monica. Kay is a friend from our days in France in the 1960's. Scott and Patti Benjamin and their daughters Kathryn and Courtney are friends from Victory Ranch. They live near Houston.

The last pictures are our campsite in Sam Houston Jones State Park, Louisiana. This campsite was in the Louisiana Bayou. Lovely. We're now at Pensacola NAS, Florida. If it ever stops raining, we'll take pictures.

Sunset and Moonrise at White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, NM

This was a sunset walk at White Sands National Monument which started at 6:45 PM. The ranger explained how different plants survive the shifting sands of this monument. The Yuccas dig roots that go down deep and sprout their stalks as long as necessary to keep from being covered by the sands. Some of the other plants form a root base that is huge. When the sands shift, they leave these stacks with the plant on the top. Click on the lovely pink flowered plant. It is beautiful. We missed the actual moonrise when the moon looks so large on the horizon. The sand is not quartz, but actually gypsum.

On the Desert

From Edwards AFB, which is in the Mojave Desert, our next stop was Salome, AZ in the Sonoran Desert. We love the beauty of this desert. So much more color. For people who do travel, this is near Quartzite.