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Posted by Onaxthiel: Thanks to a good night's sleep at U's house, we were prepped for what would be a fairly long day of driving. We went with U to a local restaurant for breakfast, and the waitress shared a bit of knowledge on some of the local spots to see on our way towards Nashville. They were in an area known as land between the lakes, a zone we had been considering visiting anyway. With breakfast completed, we dropped Road Warrior off for an oil change and did a bit of shopping at the Paris Walmart. Thankfully, since Walmart wasn't actually in charge of the change this time, we were ready to drive on after only a fifteen minute shopping trip. We bid farewell to U under a drizzly sky and started the second to ... read more

Obfuscator writes: Having decided the night before to set our sights more definitely on home, we abruptly turned away from home, and back to the southwest. Our goal for the day was Jackson, MS. We hadn't spent enough time in Mississippi to satisfy us, and the capitol seemed a likely place to start. After a fairly lengthy drive, we arrived in Jackson, and made our first stop at the Old Capitol. Normally there's a museum there, and it looked like it could be pretty interesting. When we visited though, the Old Capitol was closed for massive renovations. The Old Capitol was fairly small, with a small dome atop it, but probably would have been worth the stop. Next door, we found a Mississippi War Memorial in an American Legion building. The memorial was nicely done, and ... read more

Posted by Onaxthiel: Evergreen, AL isn't really an overly stimulating town to spend your morning in. We had stopped for the night there mostly because it was a good jump off to get to a potentially more interesting town in eastern Alabama. This town is called Enterprise, but surprisingly, this stop was in no way connected to our nerdy love of Star Trek. Instead, it was connected with our nerdy love of kitsch and Americana. Enterprise is known (if known is really the appropriate term for the town,) for having a statue of a boll weevil in its town square. This dates back to the depression, when the town experienced a huge crop failure due to the mischievous insects. The Rand McNally guide claims it's a six foot statute, and I must say we were somewhat ... read more

Obfuscator writes: The morning was a pleasant one, fairly bright, not raining, and cool. Our kind host at the New Orleans Guest House gave us a light breakfast of fruit and croissant, juice, and tea. It was tasty and hit the spot. We packed up our gear and checked out. Our plan was to tour New Orleans for a while, and then move on. As it turned out, we would spend pretty much the whole day there, which was all right, since we didn't really have anywhere else we needed to be. We started off by finding a parking lot in the French Quarter, where we could leave our car for the day. Since we didn't really have anywhere in particular to go, we wandered around for a while, and eventually ended up on Canal Street, ... read more

Obfuscator writes: We left our Natchitoches (pronounced Nagodish, apparently) motel, and headed into the town. We discovered early on that the red dot that drew us to the town the previous night, had little bearing on the actual town. There was no site called “antebellum homes,” but luckily, there were plenty of other things that seemed pretty interesting. The historic downtown of Natchitoches has quite a few really old buildings and storefronts. There's a street running along the Cane River front that's paved with bricks, though about half of it was torn up at the time of our visit. Down near the river front there's a really old Creole house that was moved there. The construction is part wood, part clay, and part hair. It was pretty cool to see it, since it was so old. ... read more