Kirsten's Adventure, Part 1

I went with C to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, to visit M.  She was retiring from the Air Force.  We helped M get some of her household stuff boxed up and helped clean the house after the movers came and took all her stuff away.  She kept back a few things that she packed in the back of her pick-up and in the trunk of her car.  On February 26 we left FWB and drove to Mobile, Alabama, where we stopped to see the USS United States of America.  

They are getting her ready to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to make a coral reef.  You can see her smokestacks have been removed. She is a sad sight, yet magnificent still.  

We headed from Mobile, C and I in the car, and M in her pick-up, up the highway to Laurel, Mississippi.  

There was a SAQA art exhibit on display at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art.  The museum was really big.  You would not know it by looking at the front of it.  It has many large rooms with all kinds of art, including baskets and quilts.  The quilt exhibit was part of an exhibit called Art Evolved: Intertwined.

This photo is of my favorite art quilt in the exhibit.  It is by Valerie Maser-Flanagan, of Massachusetts, USA.  We lost track of time, and the museum people lost track of us!!  We had come back upstairs from the quilt exhibit and were heading down the main hall to the front of the museum, when we surprised the security man.  He was starting to lock up, and did not know we were still in the building.  I call that a close escape!

The weather was beautiful and so was the small town of Laurel.  

This house is my favorite.  It is located directly across the street from the Grandiflora Bed and Breakfast, where we stayed.  We had the most relaxing time, for our very first day on the road.

This is the staircase that leads down from our room (or up to our room!)  The people were so friendly.  It felt like you were staying with friends!  Amazing!

Here I am, relaxing at the end of the day, on an antique bed.  Smile.  This adventure is going to take several posts, I believe.