Today (July 24th) we "attempted"
to visit the public library's in Jasper and Smith County Mississippi.
Evidently they close up everything there on the weekends so we drove to
Jackson the State Capitol. The State Library was open there, until
1:00. We got there at 12:30. It didn't matter as they didn't
have anything on those two County's anyway. Actually we found the
most information in the State Museum Gift Shop where we found some County
History Books for sale. The rest of the our drive down to New Orleans
is documented below.
We noticed in one graveyard that
some lady had been busy evidently. Maybe she is on her fourth "Husband"
now
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We spotted this ad on a building
in Smith County. A "Lightning Loan Reund" must be so quick that they
didn't have time to spell it all out
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Here is some of what we found in
the gift shop. The last line are Glorene's Grandparents
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The country in Mississippi was
very green and lush and heavily forested and reminded us a lot of home.
Much different than we expected
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The tree's and grass provided us
with a beautiful drive. We skipped the Freeways in favor for the
backroads. We let the map software and the GPS guide us. We
would most surely have gotten lost if we had tried it on our own.
It seemed that it took us down peoples driveways at times to take the shortest
route. On one small road a big black snake was sunning on the pavement
and reared his head as we drove by to give Glorene a thrill. She
won't walk in the grass now. She "loves" snakes.
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As usual we seem to always find
bad weather to drive through. Just before we entered Louisiana a
severe Thunderstorm hit and we had to stop a couple of times as we couldn't
see out of the windshield. This picture is on the highway at about
40mph. The wipers couldn't keep up and the wind and lightning were
blowing and booming around us
Well we got down to the gulf in
one piece. Our room at the LaQuinta leaves a lot to be desired but
the next two nights are in the French Quarter at http://www.dauphineorleans.com/
. There is so much to see here that 2-3 days probably won't be enough,
but we should get a good taste of the culture
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