What a surprise!!!!

For the past week, we have been staying in a condo in Kissimmee, Florida doing what everyone does when they go to Orlando.  Disney was a great experience, but we had to agree Animal Kingdom was our number one choice with Hollywood Studios dead last.  Maybe that is just our interest level.  We opened the parks and stayed until they closed, and after 3 days, we were "Disneyed out".  

The very exciting part of this journey was an opportunity we did not expect.  As some of you may know, our intention was to find an Airstream sometime in our future.  We have been researching for years, and searching in earnest since we sold our house in October, 2014.  We told ourselves that the EGG was so easy, which it was, but we knew our time with it was coming to a close.  With that said,

        I am please to present the larger, greater, silver EGG....the 27 foot, Signature Onyx Airstream!

I knew we would be guided to the right one eventually, but I never thought it would be so soon and 13 hours away in Lafayette, LA.  We left Orlando with the EGG in tow, heading for Charlotte, NC and put it in storage. Back in the truck the next morning at 5:00 AM for our trek across several states. Wonderful people awaited our arrival, David and Rene,the former owners, to show us our new home on wheels.  I can't describe their hospitality and generous spirit toward us, total strangers.  They showed us the area on the way to one of their favorite restaurants and introduced us to Cajun food and crawfish.  What a treat!!

                                                                            
Crawfish,which can be farm raised, is the food of choice in this area.  We have a picture of a rice field, the rice harvested, then flooded to raise the crawfish in.  Then the field is again used to grow rice and the process                                                                                                            continues.

                                  The field retains water because it has a clay base to the soil.

We stayed 2 days in the area to get acquainted with our new home, unpack our truck, learned Airstream care and how to hitch it up and move forward down the road.

We embark tomorrow for the Oak Alley Plantation, one of the most famous plantations near New Orleans before we start a road trip to Savannah to meet up with Bonnie (our daughter) and stay on Tybee Island in a small condo. When these arrangements were made, we had no idea the Silver Egg would be with us, but we will be camping for a few days in the area later in the week.