Mobile, AL -

We’re hooked up here at the Fairgrounds in Mobile, AL. The Mobile Renaissance Faire is being set up around us and the fence is decorated with flags and shields, the universal sign for “there is a Ren Fair being held here”.

There is also a Dog Show being held here. We drove in past several enormous rigs already parked and hooked up, all with makeshift pens binder-clipped together just outside their front doors. There were dogs of all shapes and sizes in the pens, each pen containing a single breed. With the exception of livestock in fields, it is quite surreal seeing many many animals of the same shape and size all in the same space, their coloring being the only obvious difference between them all. The breeds represented included Chihuahuas, Dalmatians, Fox Terriers, Papillons and, last but not least, Boxers.

The Boxers were right outside our back window. All night. It was a little loud at dinner time and again at breakfast time, but for the most part they slept through the night. This morning they packed up and moved inside the fairground to where the other dog show folks are camped. We’ll not miss them per se, but we were quite interested to get a peek into what another kind of life on the road must be like. It made us more grateful than ever for the comparative simplicity and minimalism of this one.

Yesterday the sunset was amazing. Today we go to the beach. I’m on the prowl for a good oyster bar.

Edit: Found one! You get to make your own cocktail sauce right there at the table. Fantastic.

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