We had another real good day. Left this morning, 81 degrees. The high we saw today was 94. Hadd 2 good showers of rain while traveling. South of Dumas, where we stayed last night, we saw acrea & acres of soy bean fields, corn fields & cotton fields. We stopped here in Loxley, Alabama at the Wind Chase Motel. In 2008, when we started our other western trip, This same motel was where we spent our first night on that trip. Tonight, this is our last night spent in a motel on our tip, & it is the same one. Tomorrow, we plan on getting home!!
The Mississippi River as we crossed into Miss.
A place of history. Vicksburg National Military Military Park. vicksburg became the focus of military operations between Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, in Oct. of 1862, who was ordered to clear the Mississippi of Confederate resistance, and Lt.Gen. John C. Pemberton, who, with roughly 50,000 widely scattered Confederate troops, was expected to keep the river open.Vicksburg was under seige 47 days. It's a good history lesson. We spent quite a while there.
Shirley House-Union troops called it "the white house". It is the only surviving wartime stucture in the park. During the seige it served as headquarters for the 45th Illinois Infantry, members of which built hundreds of bombproof shelters around it to protect it to protect themselves against Confederate artillery fire. It has been restored to it's 1863 appearance. It was closed for construction when we were there, some windows bbroken out.
Some scenes within the park
The surrender sight
As you know by now, I like clouds. These are clouds in Mississippi
Battleship Alabama in Mobile.
We had another real good day. Left this morning, 81 degrees. The high we saw today was 94. Hadd 2 good showers of rain while traveling. South of Dumas, where we stayed last night, we saw acrea & acres of soy bean fields, corn fields & cotton fields. We stopped here in Loxley, Alabama at the Wind Chase Motel. In 2008, when we started our other western trip, This same motel was where we spent our first night on that trip. Tonight, this is our last night spent in a motel on our tip, & it is the same one. Tomorrow, we plan on getting home!!
The Mississippi River as we crossed into Miss.
A place of history. Vicksburg National Military Military Park. vicksburg became the focus of military operations between Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, in Oct. of 1862, who was ordered to clear the Mississippi of Confederate resistance, and Lt.Gen. John C. Pemberton, who, with roughly 50,000 widely scattered Confederate troops, was expected to keep the river open.Vicksburg was under seige 47 days. It's a good history lesson. We spent quite a while there. 
Shirley House-Union troops called it "the white house". It is the only surviving wartime stucture in the park. During the seige it served as headquarters for the 45th Illinois Infantry, members of which built hundreds of bombproof shelters around it to protect it to protect themselves against Confederate artillery fire. It has been restored to it's 1863 appearance. It was closed for construction when we were there, some windows bbroken out.
Some scenes within the park
The surrender sight
As you know by now, I like clouds. These are clouds in Mississippi
Battleship Alabama in Mobile.
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