04-16-2025, Florida Key West Trip 3/27 – 6/30 2025, 96 Days, 7986 Miles, 44 Stops

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04-16-2025, Florida Key West Trip 3/27 – 6/30 2025, 96 Days, 7986 Miles, 44 Stops

16 April 2025, Lafayette KOA Holiday

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Happy Morning!! Someone came home to the dog!!! I feel so much better. I sat out front for a while, bird-watching and recording birds. There were many birds until the lawnmower started. Oh well...it’s 9:00 AM, so at least they waited until then. I recorded the birds in my bird book and prepared for the day.

This morning, I was looking at the RV park map and discovered a cemetery at the back of the park. This park has 421 sites and the back is the newer section. Barry went to turn in the key card to the gate and found out the original homesteaders, Tompkins, are buried there. I decided to take a field trip and drive to see it. We walked past it last night but didn’t see it since it was dark.

The small circle on the left is our campsite.
The larger circle on the right is the cemetery.

On the drive today to Louisiana, I checked Find A Grave and found the information for this cemetery, starting with Memorial ID: 53815860. There are a total of eight memorials listed for Tompkins Family Cemetery. An RV park is the most unusual place I have visited a cemetery.

Highland is on the coast, and the primary industry is oil refineries. We could see how huge some of them are as we drove out of town.

We crossed into Louisiana at 12:45 PM and the roads improved dramatically.

We made it to our campground. What a beautiful KOA. A pond is in the middle, and our area is all new. The sites are all concrete and wide. We were right next to the pond. I did a lot of bird watching and saw birds I had never seen before. The cardinals were very vocal but too fast to get any photos.