Mississippi, Louisiana, Mississippi, ALABAMA!

We got an early start this morning (even for us), leaving Movietown RV Park in Canton and heading south on Interstate 65. Our GPS Sally really wanted us to go east on I-20 and argued with us almost half the way -- she so wanted us to cut across to the other side of the state and go down I-69!

This is a small portion of the VERY large automobile factory just outside of Canton. Opened up just a few years ago, it has a great deal to do with the improved economy in this part of Mississippi --

The Nissan factory covers acres of property and is its own small town --

It was an overcast day. We had an occasional drizzle, but seemed to be running just behind the real rain storm. There was lots of water on the road being sprayed up by the trucks. As we left the North Delta area of  Mississippi, we were no longer in farmland, but in the pine barrens.

We drove south through Mississippi and into Louisiana, driving north of Lake Pontchartrain on I-12 until it changed into I-10 and took us back through the 'heel' of Mississippi along the Gulf Coast. What a different looking route it was from the first time we had driven it following Katrina. You have to really look to see some of the broken-off trees still visible amongst the greenery. It felt sort of funny to see the sign pointing towards Pass Christian, which was where our folks from Menno did our first service with Mennonite Disaster Service following the hurricanes.

It was a l-o-n-g day, we had driven twice as far as we normally do when we finally crossed into Alabama. It was another fifty-three miles, close to four-thirty and almost dark when we found our site at Styx River RV Park. I don't think anyone will be getting up very early tomorrow.

Once Again, We Head South

My have times changed! We are watching the American Music Awards and just watched Jennifer Lopez' performance. Maybe 'cause we were just at Graceland a couple of weeks ago and saw, once again, the tapes of the Ed Sullivan show where they were SO CAREFUL to ONLY show Elvis from the waist up. Anyway, the dance -- and the costume -- Jennifer did -- and almost wore -- was just plain lewd! To say nothing of some of the rest of the performers!

When I made a comment to that effect, Forry reminded me that it had been over fifty years ago when Elvis caused all that furor... Boy, nothing can take the wind out of your sails faster than a remark like that!

We got ourselves organized this morning, packed up and left the Mid-South RV Resort after our eight night stay, once again heading south towards the Gulf Coast. It was a very grey, overcast day. The clouds were hanging so low, it was almost foggy.  The automatic lights along the Interstate 55 S were still on. The buzzards weren't even flying -- we saw at least a half dozen of them just sitting, looking miserable, in a field.

I found an RV park about halfway down the state of Mississippi near Canton called Movietown RV Resort. I called to make sure they were open (although that no longer seems to be an issue this far south). The lady assured me they were open and had plenty of room. Since there were only directions listed in the Woodall's book, I asked her for an address for the GPS. She gave me the address of the church 'right across the street,' but never mentioned that the office was not open today.

When we arrived at the RV Park, we, indeed, found that there was no one at the office.  There was a box on the side wall with maps and envelopes and instructions to put our money in the envelope and put it through the slot in the bottom of the office door.  The map showed a couple of X'd out sites that "had electrical issues," but stated that all of the sites had 30 & 50 amp electricity, water and sewer. We drove into the park, found a nice drive-through site and got ourselves parked and settled. It was so wonderfully warm that we actually had all the windows open and the fans on until it got dark.