Jackson

Jackson is a pretty cool place to go to if you dont go to the bad part downtown and lakeland drive is good. there are lots of places to go and see like museums and historical places..

We live near here.

I set out from Lafayette, LA for Jackson, MS at noon. I thought it would take 4.5 hours, but it only took 3.5. Yay!

I saw an 18 wheeler on its side on the south-bound side of I-55. I thought about how one minute things can be going great, and the next minute everything can be changed forever. I hope no one was killed.

I drove through Baton Rouge again. This time, coming over the Mississippi River bridge, there was no fog to block the view of downtown. I saw the Capitol towering over everything. A beautiful sight for one who loves state capitols. :)

I-55 is a smooth drive. Crossing over to Mississippi is anti-climactic. I’m used to river borders, and this was just an invisible line. If I hadn’t been looking for it, I would have missed it. I was still happy to be in Mississippi.

The hotel is cleaner than the one in Lafayette with one exception. The two rolls of toilet paper in my room are stained. Yech!! I went to Kroger and bought my own.

The picture I posted was taken out the window of my car. It’s a swamp around Lake Bigeux between Lafayette and Baton Rouge. I marvel at a highway that goes over a swamp.

This is a tough call. I lived there for 16 years, enjoyed it, but was quite sure I didn’t want to spend as long as I did there. “I don’t mind living here, but I don’t want to die here.” Pretty much a standard Southern metropolis, with decent restaurants, not much to do outdoors, and constant friction between poor and rich (even more than black/white).

I have to say it is worth visiting, well, yes.

this is one of the scariest placest I have ever visited. you sure don’t want to get caught on the wrong side of the tracks (the bigoted white side)...