My fingers don’t like my laptop keyboard. I’ve written two blogs that are “gone with the wind.” To catch up, we arrived in Kenner at my Brother’s retirement center. They have a very nice two bedroom apartment. The smaller of the two is their office/den. No two walls intersect at right angles which makes for interesting furniture placement. They have 3 gourmet meals a day served in the 3rd floor dining room which has lots of windows.

Yesterday we drove north over the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway, a 22-mile engineering marvel. Two lanes north and two lanes south with periodic crossover bridges. The crossovers have law enforcement/rescue vehicles. There are a couple of ‘hills’ under which lake traffic can move. The northernmost one has a drawbridge. The northbound lanes are free, but the southbound lanes pay a toll.

Our destination, Fairview State Park, was not far from the end of the causeway. It has a lovely campground on the Tschefunte River. [I think I spelled that correctly.] It’s a Native American word spelled and pronounced by  Frenchmen. Park roads and campsites are paved. The comfort stations are immaculately clean. Our campsite is next to the WIFI tower! Lots of tall pines, magnolias, sweet gum trees, and other flora I can’t identify. The wifi tower attracts a redheaded woodpecker, but also frustrates him. Mockingbirds sing all day. A really nice place to relax.

Brother and wife are staying in a “lodge” tent. You need a degree in engineering to set it up.  And Brother and wife are too feeble to erect it. So guess who got the “honors.” It only took the four of us two hours to turn a bag of nylon and aluminum into temporary shelter. I’m cooking in the motorhome. I refuse to cook outside!

We’re relaxing here through Thursday morning.