One day it’s A/C & the next it’s the heat

3/15 /2020 – 3/17/2020 – 150 miles driven – Elevation 50

This morning we turned off the A/C fired up RUBY and drove 150 miles to Leroy Percy State Park, which is the oldest State Park in Mississippi, started back in 1934 by the CCC, before to many miles I was turning on the dash heat! Something tells me that we have sadly returned to the frozen north.

We started the day by driving about 50 miles on the Natchez Trace Parkway, the leaves are really getting big down here. For you folks stuck in the frozen north, leaves are them green things you see on trees in warm weather. Just in case you forgot what green leaves look like:)

So cruising down the Trace almost nobody on the road we met 4-5 cars and 2 tucks caught up to us. One truck passes us, the other disappeared, I mean one second he was in the rear view, the next he was gone. I’m thinking maybe a bigfoot playing Tarzan swung down and snatched him truck and all, I mean that’s the only thing that I can think of that make any sense for a truck to just disappear like that.

We also drove for several miles on hwy 61 where it was just 2 lanes, and raised, sometimes it felt like we were driving on a causway because of water on both sides of the road, thousands of acres covered in water. Many of the driveways had signs about finishing the pumps, I’m guessing its a project to pump the water out of the fields.

Leroy Percy State Park is a nice quiet park with 16 pretty level, concrete, full hook up spots. I do have one fairly big complaint, besides the ground being almost to soft to walk on, nothing the park can do about that. My complaint is they don’t sell fire wood. As you probably know your not suppose to transport fire wood very far. I asked the lady running the office and she didn’t know of anyone close selling firewood, she suggested Lowe’s about 20 miles away.

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I told Mary to not get any ideas while I was asleep, I sure hope bigfoot doesn’t get any ideas either.

It was a 2 snake day. More words below.

On our first little walk along the lake we spied this smallish snake, I’m guessing it was a cottonmouth, he was in the water, and poised no threat, on our second walk of almost 3 miles on the return portion lay a considerably larger snake, the kind you measure in feet not inches, it was getting pretty warm by this time, and he was laying right in the trail. He gave no indication that he was going to move out of the way, he never coiled up but he did flatten out and you could tell that every muscle in his body was tense, needless to say we gave him a wide berth. Again if I’m going to make a guess I would say this was a cottonmouth also but I truly don’t know as neither snake opened his mouth for a dental exam. Since we took 2 walks and spotted 2 snakes, each larger than the other we elected not to go for another walk because it’s hard telling the size 3rd snake might be.

Oh, and you know how when your walking in the woods and all of these spider webs are all at face height? Well, those are not real spider webs, no, you see those are bigfoot trip wires, they go off when you break one, they are at face level so ordinary woodzie creatures don’t set them off, Yet another reason them critters are so hard to find.

It would be a much more relaxing drive if we could take rain and storms out of the forecast!!!!  Unless we do something spectral in the next few days this will be the last post until we start traveling again sometime in May. With the virus spreading everyone play it safe!!!