Traveling New Orleans to Sanford Florida

After I After I left Connie and Ellen. I drove over the bridge over the ship channel in to  Eastern Louisiana.  I got off the bridge and turned South onto  highway 90, because I wanted to follow my loop route,  Close the coast. I stopped to get the coolant for the car, since I noticed it the battery coolant was low  I noticed that when I backed up. Something dragged beneath the car. so I looked beneath the car and I saw the.  Splash shields were loose.
I planned to fix that when I arrived at Ian's place.
As I was passing through white kitchen Louisiana. I saw a sign that said the bridge was out across the Mississippi on highway 90. So I turned Norris to go on I 10.
It was lunchtime so I thought i'd stop In slidell  for lunch. as I was approaching the exit to get lunch, I saw that there was a backup and I10 up ahead. I drove east a ways Until I found Jazzy Po-boys. 
I thought it was a fast food joint but it turned out to be a sit down restaurant. They played Jazz and the Po-boys were good.
I perused Google Maps to look for easier way across Mississippi. But all the bridges and were backed up  for miles north  but it seemed 42 miles North at Bogalusa, the traffic was not heavy. So I headed that way.
I turned east at Bogalusa and passed over the Mississippi without noticing 
once in Mississippi I traveled on south east to Oceanview Mississippi. 
One o My crew lived in ocean view. Mississippi Jason welcome period so I had send a message asking if we could meet and he said. Yes, and so I drove to ocean view. We arranged to stop at a restaurant along the highway.  He and his wife and I had a nice conversation at the restaurant. And afterwards, they invited me to their house for the evening. Where they allowed me to plug in the car. And we had a nice conversation for a while but I was tired so I turned in early period the next morning when I got up. His wife made me breakfast of eggs and  Toast. I left 
It was a very nice visit.
It was Sunday so I drove to mobile Unitarian. Universalist fellowship for church was layled. There's a pleasant service, maybe we'll have to which they serve sandwiches and coffee. The leader even invited me to stay over if I wanted to.  They also had a pool.
I drove into mobile. I drove down to Arlington park whereI had planned to anchor. After a survey, I  noticed that the water around the park was very shallow. There were logs lying just on the surface of the water. That were clearly grounded.
 The park had a nice dingy landing so if I could anchor out there and I figured out that there was a dingy landing. I could 
Easily land a dingy. There was also restroom which was unlocked, When I was there. The problem with the location is it's a long way from any stores. So getting some supplies would be difficult in this location.
After I left mobile I made a mistake. There's 2 bridges across this month between mobile and Spanish port. One bridge is the highway 90 bridge which is lightly traveled and the other bridges. I tend item is backed up so I took the highway 90 East think I was very smart but when I turned off.  I'm somehow got back on the entrance. To I 10 going West so i had to sit in traffic for about 20 minutes. Waiting to get to an exit and
exit off. I 10 back on to highway 90. Cross back over the swamp and head on East.
I drove on until I got really tired and I stopped. And I'm Chris, you, Florida. I found a hotel called the Hilton motel which was not a Hilton but I did find that their ice machine was broken. I could use the ice machine plug to charge the car.
The next day I drove to the Red Roof Inn in Ocala with pretty high mental day. At the Red Roof Inn. I found another disconnected ice machine so I could charge the car. The following day on Wednesday.
Was a sharp drive to San Francisco, Florida, to Ian's place.
And when I got there, Jodie and the kids all joyously greeted me. Kezia had made it a greeting card for me which I still have

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