From a30c790edea652494e7481f6798047a3bc1fd4ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luxagraf Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:43:36 -0500 Subject: added a backup of old pages that are no longer live --- bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.txt (limited to 'bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.txt') diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.txt b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58a1071 --- /dev/null +++ b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/02/on-the-beach.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +On the Beach +============ + + by Scott Gilbertson + + Wednesday, 07 February 2018 + + + +Soft sand? Ten thousand pound vehicle? What could go wrong? + +If you want a view like this though, you have to park in places like this: + + + +Ordinarily I probably wouldn't have done it, but when we pulled in there was another rig parked further down and its own came over and offered to pull us out with his truck should anything go wrong. I walked the sand it seemed firm enough so we went for it and it all worked out fine. There's nothing like free ocean front camping. + +If you use the websites I mentioned in the last post, notably freecampsites.net, and you zoom in on the south Louisiana coast there are basically two places to camp, Holly Beach and Rutherford Beach. After not finding much to like about [Holly Beach](/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast) we were prepared to be disappointed by Rutherford a well, but it turned out to be pretty near perfect. It's also listed as one of the best shell beaches around and it definitely has more shells than anywhere I've ever been. + + + + + +We spent five days on the beach. It stormed a good bit and fog would roll in pretty much every night, hiding the lights both onshore and off, making it feel like we were all alone in the world. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2