May 9,2010 Happy Mother's Day

Today we left and arrived at Gulf Shores National Park and Davis Bayou Campground. This is located in Ocean Springs,Mississippi. As we drove the Mississippi coast line you can see where Katrina had wiped out miles and miles of homes. These were big beautiful homes and you can see driveways going to nowhere.Every where you look places are for sale.The beach is a beautiful white sand beach and now they are being threatened with this oil spill. The oil hasn't reached the beach but all the shrimp boats and fishing boats are not going out because of the spill.This is a high resort area and there tourism is way down.

Since today is Mother's Day we went to a BBQ joint for dinner.Now this a one of a kind place to eat. It's called the Shed and this place is not fancy ,it's a experience.The guy that owns this place graduated from Ole Mississippi and he liked to go dumpster diving in garbage bins. He collected lots of junk over the years and moved to Ocean Springs and opened The Shed from all the junk he collected.The ribs and chicken were good but didn't care for sides. They were featured on the Food Network show Diners,Drive-In's and Dives.

That's it for today.