Awake in Mississippi
Day 1 of our road trip to Denver is complete. We've stopped for the night in Pearl, Mississippi, after a long, but relatively uneventful, afternoon and evening of driving. The weather was beautiful, and some of the roadside scenery was quite pretty, especially up in the Tennessee-Georgia-Alabama border area. Still, we're all glad to be out of the cars and in the comparatively spacious confines of our motel room. Especially the cats:
Heh. That's the dog kennel, which we've rigged up as a massive cat carrier in the Mazda. It works pretty well, though it rattles a bit. It's also partially visible from the car seat, which gives Loyette something to look at during the drive: annoyed kitties prowling around. :)
Anyway, as I mentioned in my final audioblog post of the evening, although I've been to Mississippi before, this is the first time I've ever been awake in the Magnolia State. In the summer of 2002, I took an Amtrak train from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., and it passed through Mississippi -- but I slept through the whole thing, having fallen asleep near Lake Pontchartrain and not awakened until the train stopped in Birmingham. So, although I've been able to say since January 2005 that I've been to all of the contiguous 48 states, my claim on Mississippi was the most tenuous. Not anymore.
Tomorrow, Becky will get her 50th state -- Louisiana -- and then she'll make her pilgrimage to Britney Spears's hometown of Kentwood. Our chosen stopping place puts us about 90 minutes from there, so that'll all happen pretty early in the morning. Then we'll head to Baton Rouge and Shreveport, eventually stopping for the night, I'm guessing, somewhere in the vicinity of Dallas:
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You know, if we time this right, maybe we can stop in Bob Dole's hometown of Russell, Kansas tomorrow night. :) I'm sure the folks there would appreciate my car's decor. Heh.
And now, I'm going to stop blogging, and do what I did the last time I was in Mississippi: sleep. G'nite all.
Heh. That's the dog kennel, which we've rigged up as a massive cat carrier in the Mazda. It works pretty well, though it rattles a bit. It's also partially visible from the car seat, which gives Loyette something to look at during the drive: annoyed kitties prowling around. :)
Anyway, as I mentioned in my final audioblog post of the evening, although I've been to Mississippi before, this is the first time I've ever been awake in the Magnolia State. In the summer of 2002, I took an Amtrak train from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., and it passed through Mississippi -- but I slept through the whole thing, having fallen asleep near Lake Pontchartrain and not awakened until the train stopped in Birmingham. So, although I've been able to say since January 2005 that I've been to all of the contiguous 48 states, my claim on Mississippi was the most tenuous. Not anymore.
Tomorrow, Becky will get her 50th state -- Louisiana -- and then she'll make her pilgrimage to Britney Spears's hometown of Kentwood. Our chosen stopping place puts us about 90 minutes from there, so that'll all happen pretty early in the morning. Then we'll head to Baton Rouge and Shreveport, eventually stopping for the night, I'm guessing, somewhere in the vicinity of Dallas:
View Larger Map
You know, if we time this right, maybe we can stop in Bob Dole's hometown of Russell, Kansas tomorrow night. :) I'm sure the folks there would appreciate my car's decor. Heh.
And now, I'm going to stop blogging, and do what I did the last time I was in Mississippi: sleep. G'nite all.
posted by Brendan Loy at
10/27/2008 10:22:00 PM
