A long driving day today, but hopefully the weather will
stay fine to let us see the scenery. The first part of the journey is through
the swamp. Looking into the thick forest with the Spanish Moss you can see
where the stories of ghosts and voodoo originate. We enter Mississippi and our
first stop is to view what is left of the first restaurant in the state at
Brookhaven. It has a cute coffee pot on the roof. Eventually we make it back to
Natchez so that we can take the scenic route to Vicksburg. The Parkway takes us
through wooded areas, apparently home to a wide range of wild life!! Another
stop is at the ruins of the largest plantation house, Windsor. The house burnt
in the 1890's but left the columns standing and a sense of an era of southern
excess. At Port Gibson, we see a novel spire ornament, pointing the direction
that Jesus went! We did see some wildlife, one close up and the other in the
distance. The thunderstorms rolled in again in the afternoon. We missed one and
caught the other. It looks like it will be a common occurrence for the rest of
the week.
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