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| Today we hop onto the I-55 south for approx 200 miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi.... Needless to say there is a big Nissan factory near here at Jackson, MS We would have been singing "Jackson" (Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra version) but as we passed over the Tallahatchie River today's song has to be "Ode To Billy Joe" (Bobby Gentry)... |
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| From Jackson we head west and travel along part of the scenic Natchez Trace Parkway (we plan to drive more of this road over the next week or so)...they say the bridges are high enough for RVs and 5th Wheelers (no commercial traffic is allowed) |
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| It's a lovely quiet and pretty drive...lots of stopping places mostly with historical markers... The Parkway is 444 miles long through 3 states, officially opened as a National Park in 1938..it is one of the most significant highways of the Old Southwest... It was originally the natural route that bisected the traditional homelands of the Natchez, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations... In the early 1800's working folk from the Ohio River Valley floated cash crops, livestock and other materials down the Mississippi River on wooden flatboats. At Natchez they sold their goods and boats and walked back home via The Trace... |
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| And here we are parked at one the the many pull-outs..this one happened to be at the site of an old plantation house, burned and abandoned after the civil war...just the family cemetery remaining... |
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| We are staying in Vicksburg at the Ameristar RV Park Hotel and Casino complex....a really nice campsite, we do like casino sites they are always very reasonably priced and good quality... Many of the Mississippi casinos are on the river due to the old law that they could not be on land, hence the Ameristar built to look like a river boat... |
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| The old road and railroad bridge over the Mississippi to Louisiana with the new road bridge in the background.. |
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| Sadly no train going through..We would have liked to walk out across the Mississippi on the old road bridge but it is only opened to pedestrians for charity walk events... |
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| The old and the new.... |
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| Downtown Historic Vicksburg.....a thriving neat little town.... |
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| The old railroad depot now a museum.... |
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| The Queen of the Mississippi....nice surprise as a tour group arrive to board the boat the steam organ started playing vaudeville type music... Well we really like what we have seen so far of Vicksburg..... More of the history and sights in the next post... The Happy Campers... |
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