good morning again everybody from Grand Gulf military state park today we leave
and today is a big day because we may get to the end of the Great River Road
we'll just see how things go I don't know what's up in the air before we
leave this park I do want to share a little bit about what's going on here
because there is some interesting history so get all geared up hop on the
bike and go look around a little bit back during Prohibition one of the ways
to transport illegal moonshine was actually in a submarine mm-hmm put all
your moonshine in the submarine float it down the Mississippi River all
stealth-like and they have one that's kind of been
preserved kind of restored a little bit here kept in one piece let's check out
the carriage house 1830 replica if you could smell the old wood and history in
this room right here this is amazing a 1905 Roman coach these two carriages
look like something you might see down in New Orleans driven by a horse or two
definitely something you don't see too often an original Civil War ambulance
wagon can almost guarantee there are not too many of these left out in existence
Wow is it cozy in there yeah it'll transport oh they have two 1875 horses
get a load of these bad boys riding in style they got two of them a really neat
resting place for these old rigs any fresh deliveries
yeah actually yes right the Grand Gulf Jail original jail for town of Grand
Gulf during the 1800s everything's creakily outside let's go
inside
nothing like steel cozy look at the old fire truck and ladder system here is a
Port Gibson volunteer fire truck from 1923 uh-huh and you would simply put
this trailer on the back that holds the ladders or no I'm sorry it says
originally pulled by hand and then pulled by truck yes
if these grounds could speak right here doesn't this old still just make you
thirsty
those whiskey that's whiskey in there this original log house was built in
1978 I'll be honest with you it has it has held up really well I don't know how
well it does for insulation peek through the cracks and windows and everything
nice big fireplace it's cozy once we fill in all these cracks we're all
there's coming through I could totally sport this but it would have to
obviously be parked next to a nice River
like this one right here well it's not a river but still its water I like it
that's this the old waterwheel well if it's a waterwheel and that makes me
think that this river this water would be moving okay is the wheel still intact
it is it's still there and intact although not working I'm thinking this
building in the waterwheel may have been moved because I don't think water has
ever run outside this building look at this belt system for it though it's
powerful they also have this old observatory tower it may have been like
a fire tower at some point but it's unlocked and I was told that we can go
up here which is good cuz I need to get my steps anyway not walking as much now
that I have the motorcycle
climbing climbing climbing we are climbing up this observatory tower why
is this thing waving up here it is really windy also some pretty awesome
views though there's the Mississippi River out there
way out there some of you can see it my tiny motorcycle it's nice I really like
this park in this campground good choice good two days also this area of the
South the southeast is well known for being the Bible Belt type stuff but not
just religious folks also no alcohol dry counties and stuff like that and for
their their churches everywhere like Mississippi specifically is so strange
because every time there's a church they have these huge signs on both sides of
the road that say Church you don't see that in any other state they like it
almost looks like a warning like Church church ahead Church
they're everywhere I've never seen so many churches per capita than in
Mississippi let's go check out this old one here I don't see a plaque or
anything telling us how old it is it's not very modern hello hello I know I
know I'm gonna say it's probably a Catholic Church I think the way I know
that is because I believe this was the TV room where you'd have the flat-screen
TV showing the Sunday football games so you could well be tasket Church just
look at these lights up here those are electric lights but I'll bet they were
gas to start and then got converted to electric and here's an old pipe organ
pretty cool old church I stuck that load the motorcycle up and unhooked the RV
sunshine what did I do to deserve this gotta unhook everything head out of the
state park and head south that's what we'll do all right we're on the road
ready to go Jack's men what are we sniff today I think we sniff a new state that
worked for you did you like Mississippi you did okay me
too but our destination is in another state
we must Trek on goodbye beautiful bark and everything might see again sometime
I just can't stop smiling I'm still in Mississippi getting gas here look at
that price does a dollar ninety one gallon cheapest gas I have gotten
anywhere in years and it's actually just gonna get better if we go down into
Louisiana it's actually gonna be down in like the 180s a gallon oh gosh look at
this guy checks wake up Hey look at this blue sign coming out dude little rainy
right now but welcome to Louisiana doing venue and Louisiana beautiful okay cool
yeah Louisiana Welcome Center one-mile stop here and
hopefully JAXA wake up buddy oh my gosh hey buddy I figured you could
want to stretch your paws yalta oh okay two things I want to say real quick guys
this video is back to 60 frames a second I know that's gonna make some people
unhappy that can't their computers or internet isn't strong enough for 60
frames so the audio goes out of sync the video freezes on you I'm sorry I just I
can't appease to a few people and create lower quality videos when I have the
capability and equipment to do my best so I'm sorry I just I have to pick and
choose also I'm going to be skipping Baton Rouge I'm gonna be kind of
expediting to the end of this I've already been through Baton Rouge and
filmed there twice before and I'm just gonna how to say this I'm kind of eager
just to wrap this up this theme theme tripped on the Great
River Road has warned me a little thin at times I'm really enjoying the weather
even though it's supposed to rain it's nice and warm so I just asked that you
guys bear with me and it's been a great trip but I want to get down to the end
of this trip and close it out so that's what we're going to do okay okay there's
the dome where the New Orleans Saints have lost more games than any other pro
football team that's true true story
welcome to busy New Orleans Louisiana
I'm gonna try to get to my
guess you'd call it my normal spot in New Orleans where I boondock I have been
here three other times but I'm not gonna bore you with traffic I'll let you know
when I get closer I'm excited to see if my spots gonna be open up here look
directly in front of me that is our first palm tree guys here in New Orleans
ain't she a beautiful sight I like it North Peter Street 72 our parking limit
we're about 1/4 mile from the French Quarter
easy walk keep going look at all these campers Wow
about right here yeah this is my spot
I know I know it is not the prettiest part of town I try to get as close to
the curb as possible and on the back I shouldn't have any neighbors because
I've got a fire hydrant behind me this section right here nobody can park but
this is where all the our beers go ever since I've been coming here look down
this road there's one two three four five six more RVs down there it's one of
the few places in New Orleans that has a 72-hour parking limit so you know if
you're in a bigger rig or a bus you know it looks like people live here to come
on but I never get in trouble I've never gotten a ticket down here so I'm always
out before 72 hours I put my mirror in because we are all really really close
to the road down both ways some of those some of those wheels are actually on the
other side of the white line you know here's another view of North Peters
Street on the other side of this wall here is train tracks then you got the
the lake out there but it's also part of the Mississippi River what actually
happens here in New Orleans is kind of anti-climatic as far as the Great River
Road everybody will say that the Great River Road and the Mississippi River
just ends here in New Orleans when actually the Mississippi River ends a
hundred miles offshore back there it's just it starts trickling into the
Atlantic Ocean and there's no roads over there it's just swampy and everything so
we are gonna call this the official end I know it's anti-climatic I wish there
was a big sign that says end of Great River Road end of Mississippi but they
don't have one yet maybe you need one New Orleans
even though you're not really the end this is what we call the end man it's
been a it's been an unbelievable couple months going north to south 2,700 miles
following the Great Mississippi River I do have some friends hopefully meeting
up later tonight don't know if I'm going to bring jacks but we're gonna go
explore at least the French Quarter and Bourbon Street down here sound good all
right whoo we made it alright well the rain
has briefly stopped so we are gonna go downtown I met some old friends here
Marshall and Tania from guys from breaking free RV
and they have a tooth that it's 2001 right to 2000 2001 so they had the same
RV I have two slots down there when we met in Arizona had the same exact
mileage on it 74,000 miles Chevy yeah we're gonna go play downtown see we
combined right before we get to Bourbon Street though you'll see they still have
gas operated lanterns going down the street plumbed in they have not
converted to incandescent bulbs yet that cool awesome and according to this sign
we are on Bourbon Street in nollans let's go on down see what it has to
offer
it's a Thursday night just for reference and it's still actually pretty darn busy
for for a Thursday tropical aisle over there Christmas everywhere
like just the urban street
welcome to New Orleans guys
once again thanks for following this journey on the Great River Road guys it
has been a blast it has been such a fun trip I can't wait to do more themed
trips but now the winter is coming and it's time for a change I'll see you guys
in my next video bye guys
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