Rather than being weary travelers, some sojourners — the Gulf Coast Hi-Low Club — just want to have fun.

The club, based primarily out of Baton Rouge, was standing outside of President Melvin Wyble’s trailer at the Riverside RV Park in Vidalia planning their day Friday morning.

“We’re interested in traveling, having a good time, meeting people and eating too much,” said Vice President Sam Shields.

The group — composed mostly of retirees — was in Vidalia this weekend for the gumbo cook-off at the Vittles and Fiddles bluegrass festival.

“We were here last year, and when I tasted the gumbo I thought that I could do better,” Shields said.

“We thought that we needed to take the title back to south Louisiana,” club member John Williams said.

“It was a good reason to travel, and (Vittles and Fiddles) is a good fundraiser for the Vidalia Fire Department,” Shields said. “We have a couple of fire-chiefs in our club.”

The club’s rallying point is their collapsible trailers.

“All of us have Hi-Lo telescoping camping trailers,” Shields said. “When you’re ready to go, you lower the top.”

Williams said that some people on the road like to pick on club members about their trailers.

“We’ll pull into gas stations and people will ask us if we’re hauling trailers for really little people,” he said.

A little good-natured joking aside, most people on the road will commiserate with fellow travelers, Shields said.

“Travelers more or less help each other out,” he said.

The group, which has formal meetings to plan four trips a year, allows people who don’t own Hi-Low trailers to caravan with them.

“We call those folks s.o.b.s,— they use some other brand,” Shields said.

“All together, we’ve been to places as far away as Maine, Canada and California,” he said.

The club also visits the area for the Natchez balloon race in October.