After doing this blog for 16 years, I have decided not to continue posting. I enjoyed doing the blog of our travels but now find that it is too time consuming. We will continue to enjoy traveling. Thank you for reading this blog and following our adventures.
August 4-8, 2014 – Pass Christian and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi
Monday morning we left Robertsdale and headed west into Mississippi. We are staying at TLC Wolf River Resort just outside Pass Christian, MS. This is a very nice resort and we have a nice long, wide site. Our site is just up the hill from the Fountain Bayou which connects to the Wolf River. We think this will be a great place to kayak. Tuesday morning we drove south to Highway 90 which follows the coast from the Louisiana border to the Alabama border. We stopped a few miles down the road at Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library. The house was built by planter-entrepreneur James Brown in 1852. Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, visited Beauvoir in 1875 and again in 1876. The owner at that time, Sarah Dorsey, who was a classmate of Varina Davis, invited Davis to write his memoirs at the estate. The Davis’s purchased Beauvoir in 1879 an...
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