Ron wasn’t feeling too well when we got up in the morning. He wasn’t sure if he really wanted to drive so contemplated staying in New Orleans another day. By mid- rnorning he was OK so we packed up and headed out around 11 am.
The heat and humidity have not broken and with no dash AC makes riding very uncomfortable. We stopped at a rest area at the half-way point turned on the generator and got the coach AC’s running. That brought at least some temporary relief.
We have tried every trick in the book to stay cool including as suggested by the “experts” to drive down the road with the generator running and coach AC’s at full blast. NOPE - did no work so we kept the windows open to at least get some air flow.
Foolishly we kept thinking that the weather would cool to a balmy 80 or so degrees but so far no luck. When we arrived at Fort Pickens it was 98 degrees – a new record for them at this time of the year.
We have been to Fort Pickens in the past and really like it a lot. It is out on the peninsula between Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The water is a pretty aqua –blue and sunsets generally spectacular.
We are usually here in January or February with very few people in the CG. This is high season so the pace was packed but we were able to secure three nights. After that all the big camp sites are booked.
Once set up and cooled down I made a light dinner and we relaxed. Later we took Jewel for a 45 minute walk. It was still very hot (90 degrees) but there was a very nice sea-breeze blowing so made it bearable.
We did not go out to the beach but Ron got some sunset pictures before the thunderstorm and rain rolled in.
It started to sprinkle off and on during our walk and we could hear thunder in the distance. Shortly after retuning to the MH we were bombarded by a whopper of a storm with lightening flashes that were on the ground and thunder so very loud that poor Jewel hopped up on the chair with me and didn’t leave until the storm was over.
We hoped that the storm would bring some heat relief but when we were ready for bed it was still 88 degrees.
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