Thursday, April 19, 2018

Mississippi travels

Today we dropped our RV off at 8 a.m. and had to spend the rest of the day finding something to do. So we drove to Booneville Mississippi which is the home of the Mississippi Northeast Community College. That's its sole claim to fame. From there we drove to Tishomingo State Park. Archaeological excavations confirm the presence of Paleo Indians in the area now encompassed by the park as early as 7000 B.C.; the park takes its name from the leader of the Chickasaw Nation, Chief Tishomingo. The famous Natchez Trace Parkway, the premier Highway of the early 1800s and a modern Scenic Parkway, runs directly through the park. Tishomingo offers a unique landscape of massive rock formations and fern-filled crevices found nowhere else in Mississippi. Massive Boulders blanketed in moss dot the hillsides, and colorful wildflowers border trails once walked by Native Americans. The Natchez Trace Parkway is 444 miles long. The portion that goes through Tishomingo State Park is 140 miles south of the northern Terminus and 340 miles north of the Southern terminus.
  Tomorrow we take the RV back at 8 a.m. and have to spend another day trying to find something to do. On Monday we will take the RV to have our broken tiles replaced and on Tuesday or Wednesday  we will go to Muscle Shoals to get the subfloor of the slide-out done.
  The temperature here is going to 39 degrees tonight which I realize is not as cold as New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Sunday we will have thunderstorms and rain and then hopefully nothing until we leave the area, hopefully by the end of next week.

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