On The Road Again

Jackson, MS -  Haughton, LA
10/Apr/24

Miles Traveled       216
Trip Total              1112
Travel Time           4:05

States visited: FL, GA, AL,MS, Louisiana

After last nights excitement, we checked the weather and decided today is a go.  There was a clearweather window around 8am, giving us time to break camp and head out.  The only problem, like the "Hotel California" you can check out, but never leave.   We pulled out of the camp site around 7:45 only to come upon a down tree across the roadway out of the campground.  Both Mark & Karen and Angel & I sat there about 25 minutes while the campground staff cut up and removed the tree.  We did not have a long wait, but the couple in the front of the line tried to leave at 6:30am.  Sometimes things do not go as planned!

The trip to Haughton went pretty well.  The first half of the trip we had heavy rain.  We stopped for fuel about halfway through out trip.  Of course the rain got even worse as we were fueling up, and stopped 10 minutes after we were finished!  That's the way life goes.

After fueling up we continued on to Gibsland, LA.  While there is not much to see or do at Gibsland, their claim to fame is the Bonnie & Clyde Museum.   The museum is located on Main St in Gibsland and is located at the cafe were they got their last meal (Fried Bologna Sandwich and BLT).  After getting their sandwiches to go, Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by law enforcement 7.1 miles down the road.   Because of their history of killing anyone they got into a gun fight with, there was a shoot first warrant out for them.    The police fired over 130 rounds into the car killing both of them before they could fire one shot.  I would have liked to have gone to the monument where the ambush took place, but it did not look RV friendly.

One of the other things that Gibsland is know for is the trains that run through town.  The sign says that there are 23 trains a day that go through town.  While we did not stick around to count them, from the time we got out of the museum, got everything set in the RV, and went up and around the bloc to turn around, three trains went though.  There are five tracks that cross the road in the photo.  While I enjoyed watching them I imagine it gets old pretty  quickly for people that live here and have to wait multiple times a day for the train.

Leaving Gibsland we had a quick 30 minute drive to our stop for the night.  All three of us have Harvest Host reservations at Mahaffey Farms.   Mahaffey Farms is an organic farm on what was once a golf course. They raise cattle, pigs, chickens as well as organic produce.  The farm is not set up as a tourist spot, It is spread out over the entire area that was the golf course.  They have a nice size parking lot that is level and blacktop, which makes it easy to setup for the night.  The pro shop has also been turned into a store where they sell there meat and produce.   We had heard that the storms last night knock down a tree which brought down their power lines. They had closed the store but assured us they would still welcome us, and we could still buy dry goods but until power was restored they would not open the freezer doors.   We got lucky and when we arrived the power had just been restored.

We spent the evening having appetizers, cocktails and playing cornhole.  Tomorrow we add another state to our trip when we head to Dallas Texas.