{"id":24,"date":"2009-01-18T00:49:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:10:18","slug":"arriving-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/24","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning \/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas \/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <w:DontGrowAutofit \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><span class=\"mceItemObject\"   classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/span>\n<mce:style><!  st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Monday 12, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"Lake near Wiggins\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3422\/3218998383_71a82304f8_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3422\/3218998383_71a82304f8_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lake near Wiggins\" width=\"107\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"Camp Coast Care neighbors\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3389\/3228164034_028025a030_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3389\/3228164034_028025a030_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Camp Coast Care neighbors\" width=\"120\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a> We were one hour away from Camp Coast Care, our final destination in Long Beach, Mississippi. We found a campground listed that really turned out to be a park where most of the visitors were living or long term &#8212; and, it seems, where quite a few of the residents are alcoholics.<!--more--> Since it gets dark so early, we just plopped down, ate and crashed for the night<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">It was a nice surprise this morning to find we were about 30ft from the shore of a reservoir. Susi grabbed her paints and Dave, his camera, to record the sunrise reflections on the water as the fog burned off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">As the temperature warmed, the residents came out to see our funny car, study the tow bar, and find out what Susi called the 4W\u2019s (Weather trends! Who are you? Where you from? Where you headed?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Dave\u2019s note: \u201cWell, we\u2019ve learned that we need to add 45 minutes to an hour for neighbor chat time into the departure schedule\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">We\u2019re Here!!!<a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Camp Coast Care\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3298\/3228165622_610f2d51d7_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3298\/3228165622_610f2d51d7_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Camp Coast Care\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">We had a leisurely drive to the coast and were greeted by The Camp Coast Care staff and Terry &amp; Sue Baughman, another couple from <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Columbus, OH who are dedicated <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">HFH volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Camp Coast Care Compound\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3099\/3227311429_a2177ed83b_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3099\/3227311429_a2177ed83b_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Camp Coast Care Compound\" width=\"100\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Group Memories\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3447\/3227311841_9432f781e0_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3447\/3227311841_9432f781e0_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Group Memories\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a> The compound, nestled in a wooded area, has multiple structures on it, including a big dormitory for transient volunteer groups, tool and building supply sheds, stacks of lumber, a 5 double-wide trailers used for offices, and 6 (including ours) RV\u2019s. Three of the RV\u2019s are used by staff. Not the most scenic spot, but quiet, 2 miles from the coast and 15 minutes away from the Habitat office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving into Long Beach, Mississippi and settling into Camp Coast Care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelogue","tag-camp-coast-care","tag-ms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}