Kissimmee to Brownsville

Saindo de Kissimmee...

Finalmente conseguimos aprontar "quase" tudo para dar inicio a outra etapa desta aventura.

Saimos de Kissimmee no sabado - 31 de agosto - as 13h horario local passando pelos estados do Alabama, Missisippi, Louisiana e finalmente Texas onde, passando por Houston, nos dirigimos para o sul para atravessarmos a fronteira na cidade de Brownsville - Texas para Matamoros - Mexico.

No caminho, que alias ja passamos diversas vezes porque ja atravessamos os EUA do leste - Florida ate o oeste - California por tres vezes...aproveitamos para passar por alguns lugares que achamos interessantes como a cidade de Biloxi, no Mississipi que e uma cidade litoranea e se situa no Golfo do Mexico e que, por consequencia disto, foi muito atingida pelo furacao Katrina. E uma cidade de praia muito interessante com fatos historicos a serem considerados como a casa do primeiro e unico "Presidente" dos Estados Confederados que era de frente para o Golfo e com uma vista maravilhosa e por isso foi chamada de Beauvoir.

Alem disto, o escultor Marlin Miller, da Florida, esculpiu alguns dos troncos das arvores derrubadas pelo Katrina as transformando em verdadeiras obras de arte que estao em exposicao por toda a extensao da avenida a beira mar, demonstrando que se e capaz de reerguer, transformar e dar esperanca. Sao figuras como golfinhos, corujas, cavalo marinho, passaros, peixes, entre outras figuras.

Tambem ha um farol construido em 1848 com seus 57 degraus e que sobreviveu a guerra civil Americana e a 20 furacoes.

 

We were finally able to get "almost" everything ready for this other part of our trip.

We left Kissimmee on saturday - August 31st - at 1 pm and went through Alabama, Mississpipi, Louisiana and finally Texas where, after going through Houston we headed south to cross the border at Brownsville - TX to Matamoros - Mexico.

On our way, which we have travelled several times before, we took the opportunity to go through the town of Biloxi in Mississippi which is a nice gulf shore town and that had its landscape changed by hurricane Katrina in 2005 whose winds and storm surges destroyed homes and trees.

History also has its share here where Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, built his home facing the magnificent view of the Mississippi sound and for this reason named the property "Beauvoir" - French for beautiful view or beautiful to see.

Also referring Katrina professional wood sculptor Marlin Miller of Ft.Walton Beach - FL carved the trunks of Katrina's dead trees transforming them into works of art featuring seahorse, marlin, sailfish, birds, osprey, whale and several others on a 40 mile stretch most of them in the median of US 90 at the shoreline.

There is also the lighthouse built in 1848 and which is the only one in the US to stand in the middle of a four-lane highway. This historic structure survived the Civil War and more than 20 hurricanes and operates today as a private aid to navigation.    

Embalando e aprontando tudo para carregar no motorhome... Packing and hauling all in the RV.

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