This morning we said goodbye to Rick:

M’s Junior Ranger banner, the second one Trish made on this trip, is now full:

We drove west, entering Alabama:

Alabama’s coastal region is not that wide, so we soon entered Mississippi:

We soon arrived at the visitor center for Gulf Islands National Seashore:

The visitor center is quite nice:

We walked out to the shore, where we could see the gulf islands along the horizon:

Anything that stands still gets overtaken by vines:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger books and received their badges:

We wanted to visit a pair of NPS sites in New Orleans, but they’re closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving, so we continued on to overnight at a Walmart near Baton Rogue, Louisiana.  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.