After leaving Branson Saturday the 6/25/2016 we end up in Tunica, Mississippi. In one day we went from Missouri, into Arkansas then briefly in and out of Tennessee while ending up in Mississippi. How can that be................well that's the way of the roads we took. Our reservations on the gulf coast are for Tuesday so we're spending our second night here and heading to the coast in the morning. Even at that we may see about checking a day early there since we're not that many hours from Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi. Tunica is like a little Casino oasis in the middle of Mississippi, and it hasn't been very friendly either, camped outside a few casinos and sitting in the coach watching TV, these machines are a bit tight to say the least.
We did manage to squeeze in 9 holes of golf between, shows, rain and darkness on Friday evening. Thousand Hills golf club, Branson, Mo. The best par 64 course in the world is how it's billed and that is an understatement, one very difficult course but oh so beautiful. Best fairways I've played on in quite some time and very nice greens, but way too many side-hill, up hill, down hill lies for this duffer..........wow but what a challenge! Regardless we seem to enjoy the punishment in hands out, and with the humidity we both struggle a bit but still have a good time for the most part and keep coming back for more!
We're both looking forward to revisiting some of the places we went on our honeymoon back in 1972, not sure how much things have changed but we think back to some of the pictures and would like to retake a few from the same locations. You know, like here we are in 1972 and here we are now in 2016, I believe there will be some marked changes in us if not the picture locations!
In this day of "Small houses" or Tiny houses" Beverly has lately been referring to our motor home as our "little house" and how much we really love this traveling in our little house! Hell we have roughly 450 sq. ft. of living quarters, including a kitchen, living room, bedroom, bath w/shower and a corner office for Beverly to work in not to mention a hutch and pantry with plenty of storage inside. The basement compartments are numerous and roomy, plenty of storage for sure.
The last fill up with gas was 1.99/gallon and that is making things sweet..........average for the trip so far would be something like 2.12/gallon since leaving home. That is a very good thing and we hope it continues throughout the south!
In closing Branson was worth the visit, you can either spend a lot more time there or bypass it in the future................we may vote for bypass, very commercialized to say the least but some great shows.
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While in Mississippi I expect that you'll steer clear of instant grits. No self-respecting southerner uses instant grits. Take some pride in your grits.
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