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North America » United States » Mississippi September 4th 2022

8 miles out of New Albany we were back on the TAT and immediately in another forest. We were on great gravel roads winding through some flat but interesting terrain. Once again occasional patches of soft sand and a gnarly section with ruts and washouts every now and again. All helped wake us up and concentrate. A lot of these trails were red dirt – could be outback Australia! These trails were in and out of forested areas and occasionally through small groups of houses where normally the road was sealed (albeit potholes joined with bits of seal in some sections) but once again a mixture of housing quality. We carried on until around 10am where we stopped in a small township for breakfast in a diner attached to a gas station. We had a bit ... read more
MJV in the forest
Lake
Ian in the Forest

North America » United States » Mississippi September 3rd 2022

Saturday 4th September Started out from our motel just after 8am. Fine drizzle had started and temperature in the low 20s this morning so very comfortable. We soon crossed the Mississippi River and were now in the State of Mississippi and as the sign on the bridge said the home of American music. No sign of Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn on the bridge - so we pressed on. Our track took us onto some narrow sealed roads between huge fields of crops. Soon we caught up to a convoy of around six to eight massive harvesters. We followed them for a couple of miles at around 5mph then luckily our route directed us down a different road. Now we were on straight gravel roads between hundreds of acres of various crops cruising along ... read more
Good old Boys at TAT Check Point
Tat checkpoint
Restored courthouse

North America » United States » Mississippi » Jackson October 1st 2021

From Tony Bourdain's brother: “Here is this guy who has had these travel experiences that nobody could ever have. And yet, in some respects, I've had better travel experiences in the last couple of years. Because I can wander aimlessly for five hours alone or with my wife in Berlin, or in Barcelona, or in Paris. I've done it, you know? I just love wandering around aimlessly. Going down streets I haven't seen. And he couldn't do that. He never got a chance to wander around the streets of Paris or Berlin or Hanoi. I have had that chance and I've done it. I don't know if it's better or worse or just different. I don't know. But it was ironic.”Interesting?If you think about it, how would someone like Bourdain ... read more
Erstwile Tony

North America » United States » Mississippi » Natchez March 19th 2021

http://www.heygo.com 18th March - Natchez: The Jewel of the Mississippi Mississippi Natchez, Established in 1716 as Fort Rosalie, it survived a massacre (1729) by Natchez Indians for whom it was later named. Natchez is the oldest city on the Mississippi River It passed from France to England in 1763 at the conclusion of the French & Indian War and was a haven for loyalists during the American Revolution. In 1779 it was captured by a Spanish expedition under Bernardo de Gálvez and remained under Spanish dominion until 1798 when the United States took possession and made it the first capital (1798–1802) of the Mississippi Territory. During the ensuing years it burgeoned as the commercial and cultural centre of a vast and rich cotton-producing area. During the American Civil War It was bombarded by a Union gunboat ... read more

North America » United States » Mississippi » Oxford November 14th 2020

*No sharks or trains were harmed in the making of this blog. ¡Olé! Ole Miss, that is. While not my first time at the University of Mississippi, this weekend was the first time I spent more than 7 hours in the town of Oxford and the university. I hadn’t even planned on coming to this school this season, but when have things ever gone to plan for anyone in 2020? Still, I finally got to my first SEC game of the season, and it was a barnburner. So much for the SEC being known as the conference of defense. In reality, times are a-changin’, especially in the year of Covid. Truly, this trip was more of a mini-vacay than my typical football experiences this year. Football just provided an impetus to go somewhere. And once I ... read more
She may not be much to look at, but she's got it where it counts, kid. Oops, wrong movie.
The man, the myth, the legend: Lane Kiffin
My favorite artwork in all of Oxford is in a booth at the Ajax diner

North America » United States » Mississippi » Hattiesburg September 19th 2020

Dear readers, if I develop Covid symptoms in the next week to ten days, I’m pretty sure it will be because of this game. Fingers crossed. I hope this doesn’t become a common theme in my football travels this season. Once the current season began to take shape—and it still is taking shape with each passing week—I staked out a few places in the “lesser” conferences that I wanted to visit. Some of them were out of necessity, due to weird scheduling, ticket prices, and distances. But the University of Southern Mississippi, in the Conference-USA, was one that I wanted to make sure to visit. I drove through Hattiesburg about five years ago, on a trip to Texas, but I remember thinking how nice the campus looked and how big the stadium was (they call it ... read more
M.M. Roberts Stadium is also known as The Rock
Student Union at Southern Miss
The Administration Building at Southern Miss

North America » United States » Mississippi » Tupelo June 7th 2020

The end came with a toxicology report that revealed a laundry list of opiates; dilaudid, percodan, demerol, some codeine and qualludes. Years of drug abuse from the time Elvis was in the military when his friends introduced him to “little brown and green stimulants” to keep him awake during patrols. Once military life ended Elvis didn’t walk away from those pills. Elvis’s thirst and addiction expanded over the years and those drugs took a beloved and admired musician, actor, and celebrity on August 16, 1977. Elvis often referred to as the King of rock and roll, he recorded 710 songs and performed in 31 films. He made women around the world swoon. His fame, movies and music continue on decades after his death. Elvis has now been dead 43 years –he only lived 42 years, so ... read more
Childhood home place
Elvis Memorial
Tupelo Mississippi

North America » United States » Mississippi » Ellisville March 28th 2020

ALAMANCE AND THE FREE STATE OF JONES There is nothing more American, perhaps, than mixed blood; unless it might be a good stout voice of strongly held anti-authoritarian sentiment. Oddly both intersected in the Piney Woods District in backwoods Jones County Mississippi during the Civil War. It resulted in a situation in which residents of Jones County and two adjacent counties voted to secede from the Confederacy. It did not, however, start there. Civil disobedience in America began in 1676 with the Bacon Rebellion in Virginia. Nathaniel Bacon opposed Governor Berkeley’s frontier Indian policy, gathered some followers who burned Jamestown to the ground, and sacked Berkeley’s home. The rebellion fell apart after Bacon got dysentery and pooped himself to death. Twenty seven of his followers were subsequently hanged and Berkeley was recalled to London. Berkeley favored ... read more
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT COURTHOUSE, OF COURSE
GOVERNOR BERKELEY'S FARM LAND
HANGING TREE

North America » United States » Mississippi » Natchez March 25th 2020

A PASSEL OF COUSINS If you somehow find yourself bored and at loose ends with yourself during a visit to Natchez, Mississippi drive across the bridge and take Hwy 425 a few miles up into Louisiana to a little place called Ferriday. It is a pretty quiet little place nowadays but in earlier times it was much more lively. On September 29, 1935 a fellow named Jerry Lee Lewis was born in Ferriday and might be creaking around yet, although he no longer lives there. I hope he is still with us. When his light finally goes out we will have lost a good bit of vibrant color from our lives. Jerry Lee’s mom started him out as child banging away at the piano in hopes that he would someday sing gospel tunes at the church. ... read more
JERRY LEE LEWIS
JIMMY LEE SWAGGERT
MICKEY GILLEY

North America » United States » Mississippi » Natchez March 23rd 2020

WASHINGTON, MISSISSIPPI The origins of Mississippi are roughly as confusing as Father’s Day in Nogales is. It started out to be a part of Georgia, back when Georgia extended to the Mississippi River. Back in those days the Colony of Virginia extended clear out to the Pacific Ocean. Settlement in the area was complicated by French and Spanish claims to it. Overland travel was very difficult because no wagon roads existed and it was still considered Indian land. Travel would have been much easier by using the rivers, Daniel Boone pioneered the Wilderness Road into his settlement at Boonesboro in Kentucky and he sought to connect his road to the river system. The Wilderness Road maundered off from Boonesboro down to the Cumberland River in Nashville. The Cumberland River winds its way over to join the ... read more
JEFFERSON COLLEGE
MERIWETHER LEWIS MONUMENT ON NATCHEZ TRACE
NATCHEZ UNDER THE HILL




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