Pensacola, FL was the southeastern most point of my journey. I have started bearing northwest towards home. The journey started with a quick re-entry back into Alabama, drive through Mobile and crossing over into Mississippi. A good portion of today’s journey was through the back roads and it certainly had its rewards. In Alabama, we were treated to an awesome sighting of a lake (I believe it was part of Alabama water supply) that had an awesome mist hanging over it. We have been treated to so many of these mysterious, yet beautiful natural phenomenon. It amazes me how much nature has in store each day for someone willing to look!
Mississippi was uneventful. The only interesting thing I saw was farmers selling tons of sweet potatoes by the highways. I stopped at one place – the lady was happily approaching me to sell me one of the huge bags – I told her that I was just passing by and wanted to take a picture. An old man came out of the pick-up and first squarely refused my taking a picture – then he changed his mind and agreed to let me do it as long as I didn’t include them in the picture. Well, I got my pictures!
From there, we entered Louisiana, crossing Mississippi river. I could only get a quick look at the river – what with another bridge crossing, I had to be extra alert driving The welcome center had an open area for Apollo to wander and run. We ran into Delhi, LA and it evidently was leading to poverty point. We took a detour and found Delhi Market, Delhi Clinic, Delhi Hospital… I was hoping to find a place that hawks Chole Bhature (a Delhi staple in India), but that was not to be . I had to be satisfied with Taco Hell for lunch today.
We finally cut across into Arkansas and called it a day at Texarkana. The drive by AR-529 looked to me that we were traveling on a brand new road for about 25 miles - it was flawless! I dare say this was one of the best stretches we drove.
Almost every state border seems to have a city straddling it. This town between Texas and Arkansas has taken it a step further to call itself Texarkana and have a long State Line Road diving the two states, where one side is AR and the other side is TX. Cincinnati could’ve been christened Ohtucky and Kansas City could’ve been Kanouri if they had followed Texarkana’s lead. I bet denizens of those cities are happy the way things are!
The internet connectivity at my hotel sucked. I just couldn’t get it past the limited access mode. So, this blog post will be a day delayed.
Day 17 pics
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