February 7-9, 2019
On a sadder note earlier that morning I had read about the death of a blogger’s husband, Sherry of In the Direction of Our Dreams had posted about David’s passing. He fought a courageous battle with cancer, never stopped smiling and he lived life to the fullest. Sherry’s blog laid the groundwork for some of my choices of FL state parks, I will miss reading her posts and offer up my condolences and prayers in this devastating trying time. David’s passing just reiterates why we started following our dream as early as we could.
While we were an hour later getting off the rest of our traveling that day were uneventful. After a bouncy ride on LA roads, 190 miles and 3.5 hours later we were pulling into Poche’s RV Park and Fish N Camp. We’ve been here before and this visit was all about the crawfish, Dave needed his fix.
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| Site 64, only bad thing is the light at night |
So of course Dave had to have crawfish for his first dinner here, Cajun Claws was recommended but he can’t recommend them. They were way too salty, so much so that he couldn’t enjoy the head fat he usually does.
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| Too salty :( |
Friday was a cold windy day, but we braved it to get out to walk around the pond before we headed out for some groceries. While at the grocery store we received news that our friend from TX battling stomach cancer had found out it’s Stage 4, inoperable. Needless to say that has put us into a funk and trying to figure out what we could do to help, unfortunately going back isn’t an option so we’ll have to be a sounding board support for them whenever they need it. The day ended on a good note with a great hour long phone call with friends from our days in VT, can't wait to see them in OBX.
Saturday we headed to a local farmers market, do you know
there’s not much there you can buy when you are on a low carb diet. Tried
baking some cookies and brownies with Stevia, couldn’t stand the taste so I’ll
just wait till we go back to a regular diet to enjoy sweets again. Here at
Poche’s there are several ponds with walking around them, a couple of different
walks around them and we’ve got our steps in for the day. We ended the day with
Dave trying a different crawfish boiler, The Seafood Boiler was a great find,
he certainly enjoyed his crawfish this time.
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To end the day we enjoyed a phone call with our son David whose birthday it was. Happy Birthday David!!!
We are off to Buccaneer State Park in Waveland MS in the morning,
another repeat park for us.
Until next time…
The ups and downs of life! Always keep more ups! Glad Dave found good crawdads!
ReplyDeleteThe jiggling jello, Dave was in crawdad heaven.
DeleteVery sad news about Sherry's husband. You are right, you have to take advantage of life and not wait. We have never regretted it. Those mudbugs are just too much work for us, we don't like to work that hard to fill our stomachs!
ReplyDeleteWe have never regretted our decision to get out of the rat race early either. Less than 1.5pds of meat for 5pds of crawfish, not for me, I also don't like the taste of them.
DeleteLov'n the mudbugs. Sorry to hear about your friend. Probably time for oysters while in Waveland. Yum
ReplyDeleteHe saved some for you.
DeleteI was very excited to hear more about delicious crawfish until you brought up "head fat." I don't even know what that is, but I'm pretty sure you just ruined crawfish for me forever. :)
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your friends. Life really is so unpredictable and unfair, and I agree, these are all lessons in why it's important to not wait to do what you want to do.
The expression "pinch tail eat head" comes from crawfish eating. We lost Dave's parents and I lost an uncle in the of just under a year. My uncle was a month from retiring. We knew then we had to start traveling but still had the boys at home. As soon as they left we knew it was time, when the house sold there was nothing holding us back. Have not regretted it once.
DeleteWe would like to hear more recommendations of restaurants to check out while at Poches. Steve love this park that we booked a week stay there in late March.
ReplyDeleteWe were glad we got to meet David on his last few weeks.
I had hoped to find them in FL this year but alas it's not meant to be. We can discuss restaurants when we see you.
DeletePoches. Crayfish. YUMM! I also read Sherry's post. So sad to hear about her David. We did not get the chance to meet them on the road. Sorry to hear about your friend in Texas too.
ReplyDeleteDave was in heaven, now it's just seafood overload. So sad for Sherry. Our friend has started chemo, tough road ahead.
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