Sunday, August 21
We decided to try something different in order to beat the heat, leave early. Well we skipped the hotel breakfast and were on our way at 6:50AM !! (a new record for this trip). We crossed the Natchez to Vidalia, LA Bridge over the Mississippi, and entered the "West" because the river is the great divide between the East and the West, it was also very apparent that Louisiana was not as prosperous as Mississippi in fact it looked a bit rough in parts. So we waisted little time in the urban area and pushed West on US 84 (425) until we got to Farriday and turned North on US 425 and US 65 and at that point we were North and heading for home.
Natchez to Vidalia, LA Bridge over the Mississippi
Our breakfast stop was about an hour latter at Tallulah, so far we have seen nothing but cotton fields and a few "gins" or processing centres, also went through Waterproof, LA, not much there but an interesting name for a small town on the flood plain of the Mississippi (must be some kind of a local joke).
Ken at the Arkansas State Line
By 11AM we are in Lake Providence on the border with Arkansas, and the lake has some strange trees that grow big at the bottom and grow right in the lake, see below:
The highway back over the Mississippi is on a brand new and very elegant bridge, this is the link to the photo[http://static.panoramio.com/photos/small/45521084.jpg] which is near Greenville, MS.
Pushing on in the now 40c+ heat it is about 2pm as we continue North on US 61 and US 278, we reached our hotel just North of Memphis in the town of Millington, TN at 4pm, and it was time for a dip in the pool.
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