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Vicksburg National Military Park – USS Cairo Museum – Emerald Mound

March 4, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

February 26 we drove over to Vicksburg MS to see the Vicksburg National Military Park. It was much larger than expected and one could spend a week or more walking around and reading all the sings and plaques. With in the park is a museum for the Civil War Ironclad U.S.S. Cairo which struck a …

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Catching up

March 3, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

No or very slow internet makes it hard to keep up! Date2/24/2023 We spent the night at Jeff Busby Campground for most of the 140 mile drive, it was sprinkling rain so while we pulled off at most of the stops we didn’t get out much. February 25, from Jeff  Busby we rolled on down …

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Clean bill of health

February 27, 2023 / Rex / 0 Comments

February 20 2023Mary, at her second Dr appointment, as hoped and expected, received her second clean bill of health so we cut out for the someplace south directly from her last appointment and spent the night at Tailwater Campground again. February 21 From there we’re headed for yet another attempt to drive the Natchez Trace …

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Fort Pickens Campground

December 21, 2022 / Rex / 0 Comments

Tuesday, November 29, 2022, made our escape or so we thought. We spent 2 cold nights at Tailwater Campground which is just below the dam on Barron River Lake, which is way way down. When we made the reservations we didn’t catch that they had turned off the electricity. Not a problem for staying 1 …

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You knew this – but did you know

November 14, 2022 / Rex / 0 Comments

Louisiana Purchase was in 1803, this you already knew. Friday, November 11, 2022, you knew this about the Louisiana Purchase – but did you know about the initial point from which ALL surveys of property acquired through the Louisiana Purchase originated. This is where it all started the Louisiana Purchase, where for $15 million dollars …

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Escaping the COLD

February 20, 2022 / Rex / 1 Comment

February  4 -15  2008 miles shake down cruise. Beating a snow and ice storm on our return from Phoenix and getting the van, we arrived in Clarksville and paid for another site next to RUBY. For a few days we outfitted the van. In between the cold and an ice/snow event we didn’t get everything …

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The last one for a while

April 3, 2021 / Rex / 0 Comments

Unless something unexpected crops up this will be the last post until sometime, probably, mid May, we’re on our way to Indiana where we will be staying 2-6 weeks, we haven’t done much since the last post. In Arkansas, we’re staying near a low river bottom and the entire area was flooded so we were …

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Alabama – Mississippi – Louisania

December 5, 2020 / Rex / 0 Comments

12/2/2020 After 2 weeks at Pickensville AL it was time to move on down the road, for the most part we had fantastic weather, cool at nights, semi warm and sunshine durning the day, almost no wind most of the days……….. that is until the frozen north attacked us, with the last 2 nights in …

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2 weeks at Pickensville Campground

December 3, 2020 / Rex / 0 Comments

Note: Somehow the subscribe thingy disappeared, it’s back now. Works or not that’s another story. After 8 nights at Dewayne Hayes it was time to move on down the way. We moved about 26 air miles from the last spot, the planes can still be heard sometimes but nothing like at Dewayne Hayes. I wanted …

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Planes planes and more planes

November 25, 2020 / Rex / 1 Comment

Ok, so I think I mentioned in my last post about moving in the rain!!!! Blasted weather people!!!! We moved about 114 miles and abandoned the idea of following the Trace any more. A.) Because of unforeseen circumstances we’re well behind the best of the fall colors. B.) We need to get well away from …

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