Tuesday

Breakfast in Mississippi, lunch in Louisiana, supper in Texas. Today was moving day.

After leaving the hotel we were quickly in Mississippi. We stopped in Jackson to see the state capital and see if we could find MCI world headquarters. (We do have a telecommunications professional after all.

After traversing almost all of the state we stopped at the Vicksburg battlefield. Vicksburg was the biggest Confederate fort on the Mississippi River and controlled traffic up and down river thus blocking Union trade down the river and military advances up the river. Lincoln called it the key to the war.

The Confederates controlled the heights and were under siege from all sides. We saw a number of monuments from the states involved with Ohio having enough statuary to start a Greek revival. And we are not talking plaques either, immense obelisks; pyramids and huge statue form a twelve-mile path.

Our favorite was Grant, Davis and Pemberton.

Leaving Vicksburg, we made a beeline to Louisiana crossing the mighty Mississippi and imaging what it must have been like to man the ramparts dodging fire from land and river. We stopped for a quick bite there. BK for breakfast, Popeye’s for lunch. Today, it is expediency versus culinary discovery.

Shreveport, LA was eye opening as the casinos have built huge edifices in downtown. Three huge edifices dominate the skyline.

Soon we were entering Texas. We both have visited Dallas, Jeff to Houston but neither of us have driven in from the east. It was getting dark but we had to press on to Dallas.