Dixie Land

For those of you who have never driven past Fort Worth, East Texas is surprisingly pretty. Here's a freeway shot. It is thick with trees and has a gently rolling terrain. We are starting to get more heat and humidity. Dave has a humidity sensor (a gadget from his FD days) and it was registering 92%.

We have now arrived in Natchez, MS. Here's a shot from the Mississippi side looking towards Louisiana.

This is a view of the Mississippi River looking North. It is very pretty here in MS. Everything is lush and green. In many of the trees there is ivy growing up to the top. We just had a good rain storm so the temp is down into the mid 70's. Cool and humid instead of hot and humid. There are lots of plantations in the area from the Civil War era and before.

Dinner was at The Pig Out BBQ that came highly recommended by Southern Living magazine and also had good reviews on Yelp.com. Click on the picture and make it big so you can read what they love about the South.

Here we are driving the streets of Natchez. On this street the houses are very quaint and very old. Most of the homes appear to be in their original state. We ended up a few streets over...in Black Town. This was exactly what you'd picture, but in years past. A narrow street lined with old houses sitting close to the road. Front porches with rocking chairs filled with black folks who sat, just watching life going by, maybe a cold soda in their hands. There were young kids playing in the street and as we passed, we heard someone holler, "Get out de way!" One boy flashed me a grin and held on to his dog as we slowly drove by.

We drove through the Natchez National Cemetery. There were markers from Civil War days and possibly even earlier. Very interesting.

I liked what this gravestone said.

Stay tuned for New Orleans.....