Part of the trip last week was along the Mississippi Gulf coast. Truly a beautiful stretch of America. Beaches were clean, although there were still cleanup crews working. Weird thing about the beaches is that there is nothing there! No funky restaurants, no seafood bars, no mom and pop hotels, no tacky t-shirt shops, no fishing piers...all gone...blown away I guess. The Katrina mess is cleaned up on the beach, but you see empty land with driveways where houses used to be, right on the waterfront. Pilings standing with no house, pilings going out into the water where piers were, but no piers, no boats, no tourists.
At Biloxi there are signs of life with the casinos, and if you go inland off the beach the towns have people (and still abandoned buildings) but this beautiful 24 mile long beach is just wide open. And empty.
At Biloxi there are signs of life with the casinos, and if you go inland off the beach the towns have people (and still abandoned buildings) but this beautiful 24 mile long beach is just wide open. And empty.