Blogs from Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States, North America - page 2

Sometime in the middle of the night it started to storm....and I mean storm! Thunder, lightening and flash flooding. It was crazy. Our swamp tour was cancelled and we made a decision to head north after watching the weather channel and seeing that it was showing sunshine up north. We left town and headed towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. What a beautiful drive. We drove over the swamp for about 45 minutes and the kids thought it was so cool that they were on a never ending bridge, it was storming the whole time too! As we were cruising along we saw a sign for Port Hudson. We decided to stop and see what it was all about. As it ended up it was a military fort that was used during the Civil War by the Confederates to ... read more

May 16, Monday Vicksburg to Jeff Busby Campground. Morning entry: In Vicksburg drinking my tea and thinking things over. Looks like the weather will be great today only getting into the 60's here in Vicksburg. After loading up I'll probably drive down Confederate Avenue to the river and have another look at it, then head East towards Jackson then up the Natchez Trace to Jeff Busby Campground to camp. I won't have Internet there and will see if my cell phone works there or not. That's about a 150 mile drive for the day which is more than enough to suit me. Of course there are things I will stop along the way and see. Looks to be a great day for touring. The high is expected to be in the 60's and tonight at Jeff ... read more

May 14, 2011 Saturday Decided to stay another day in Vicksburg so went by the office and paid for another day. Did some more reading on Grants Vicksburg campaign and took another look at the map of the battlefield that I had. On my tour of the battlefield I had missed the "Texas Lunette" which is the defensive position that the 2nd Texas volunteers had fought from with some members of Waul's Texas Legion as well. Being from Texas that was of particular interest to me. The Texas troops were used on both sides of the Railway Redoubt with parts of Waul's Legion as the reserve on the South side of the redoubt while the 2nd Texas Volunteer infantry were the main force on the Second Texas Lunette on the North side with some artillery support ... read more

May 12 Thursday Been a long tiring day today. Very hot and humid. Stayed at the Rocky Springs campground off the Natchez Trace about 30 miles southeast of Vicksburg last night. A nice campground and free. Today drove into Vicksburg and checked out the river and some murals on Levee Road alongside the dikes that hold the river back. I was very impressed with the murals. The river is flooding and hopefully next week when it gets at its maximum the murals won't be washed away. Here is a web site on the murals. The one about "Teddy's bear" is my favorite. http://riverfrontmurals.com/ It was very hot and humid today. Traffic was very light. I guess because media coverage of the flood gives the impression that Vicksburg is flooded which is not the case. Some of ... read more

OK, I am late on updating the blog, sorry!! Left Vicksburg driving to Natchez, MS. Arrived at River View RV Resort in Vidalia, La - our site 111 :-). Beautiful RV park located right on the Mississippi river in sight of the bridge. This park is a very well kept, friendly, courteous, and reasonably priced rv park. I highly recommend it to any and all traveling through Natchez, MS / Vidalia, La. (that is for anyone reading the blog and not familiar with Aleta & I. Had a lot of visitors. Tomorrow we get ready for the family reunions!!! Aleta & Shelby T.... read more