Our first few months of RVing

This is the first of a series of entries to try to cover the earlier days of our Rving life style. We sold our house in Gautier Mississippi before Hurricane Katrina, bought the Tiffin Phaeton RV in Birmingham, AL. (The actual purchase is a story in itself -- ask and I'll tell you about it.) After a few weeks at Shepard State Park in Gautier, we sold the house and got rid of anything we felt we could part with, put the rest into storage or into the RV if we felt we would need it and headed east. Following the Gulf Coast, we made a stop in Destin and Panama City FL and then continued on the Cedar Key.

The bend in the tree seemed just made for our RV and "toad" (referes to our "towed" vehicle the Jeep Grand Cherokee). Cedar Key is a neat little fishing villiage and the location of a significant aquaculture clam raising business. I got to tour the breeding area where they grow the seedclams for sale to the farmers. The farmers lease plots of bay borrom, seed the bottom with the small calms and in a few years go back and harvest their catch. I had stopped at the facility to buy some clams for steaming.