There isn’t too much to share today as we spent the whole day on the road… seven hours and four minutes to be exact. That’s not ‘terrible’ in car travel, but it’s quite fatiguing in an RV. Needless to say, Steve did a yeoman’s job and is now sitting happily with a gin and tonic.
Our original plan was to leave Georgia this morning and shoot for Meridian, Mississippi. We were feeling fresh after a good night’s sleep, and decided we could go a bit further. Vicksburg, Mississippi became our destination. It’s on the Mississippi River and there is an RV park with full hookups that is part of a riverboat casino. So off we went! We crossed into Alabama from Georgia, drove through that entire state and then into Mississippi. We are now on the border of Louisiana and will hit that state about five minutes into our drive tomorrow morning.
It’s hot here now… not the coolish temps we had while in the Carolinas and the Smokies. Humidity makes it worse of course, but for the south, the humidity isn’t that bad right now. I’ll be glad to get to a drier climate though.
We did see a few interesting things today… I’ll just comment on the pictures below.
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| Maggie is still working on the best way to ride in the RV |
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| We could not figure out what this car was about. I did a google lens search and evidently it’s a camouflaged 2026 Kia Telluride X-Pro test vehicle. I don’t really know what a ‘camouflaged’ car is, but evidently it has something to do with wrapping it in nylon. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be hiding from. It just looked like it was wearing a windbreaker to me. |
This next group of pictures are of a place called Buc-ees. If you are not familiar with this phenomenon, it is a fuel station and more… A LOT MORE. We have heard of these in the past and even stopped at one once for gas. We marveled at the number of gas pumps, but we never went in. Today we did…
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| This is only half of the fueling pumps… they’re are 120 of them! |
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You know you are in the south when you can get pickled quail eggs and pickled okra at the gas station
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| Even Steve was speechless |
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| I had no words… |
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| Chopping fresh brisket they smoke ON THE PREMISES. When a fresh brisket comes off the smoker, all the employees yell ‘FRESHHHHHH, BRISKET ON THE BOARD!’ |
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| Chatchki heaven and every possible dust collector you can imagine |
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I had to try the famous Beaver Nuggets - basically fried sugar pops
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And then there were these signs as we drove along…
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| They are very phonetic in Mississippi |
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| Just another town in Mississippi |
So that’s about it for today. It’s hard to know what gems we might come across tomorrow! Until then, good night!
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