After a whole lot of traveling we're happy to once again 'stay put' for a while, this time in Starkville, Mississippi.
James got another job through his previous boss, preparing a vacant store for another Petsense, that is coming in shortly in a small mall here in town.
Here's his office set-up, in the middle of the store ..
If things are going smoothly, it'll take about 5 weeks until he's done.
After that we'll probably head back to Hammond/Robert for a little while and see what else will come up.
Talking about Robert, when we came back from Houston, after picking up the RV in Egan and Merlin in Baton Rouge, we were just in time for the celebrations of the 4th of July weekend.
There was a golf-cart parade at Hidden Oaks and some other games and events throughout the weekend.
It was unbelievably hot and humid and lots of people went to the Tangipaho river that runs along the campground ...
Ice-cream was sold by the buckets!
It wasn't easy, just coming out of the much cooler climate of Holland, to get somewhat comfortable to this crazy hot and especially humid weather!
Thank goodness for AC!
Fortunately, we left after only 2 days for Starkville, where there blew a cooling breeze and where it it was much less humid.
We're staying at The Pines, a manufactured home community, that also has RV spaces for rent.
It's a nice, big space, with a little bit of shade in the afternoon by a nearby pine tree, and so far no direct neighbors in the 2 weeks that we are here.
Like always, we immediately checked out the local golf courses and liked the course at the University the best.
James golfs there almost every morning before work and I honestly tried to like playing in 90 degrees, but I just can't do it!
I'll pick it up again when it gets cooler. Let's hope it ever will ...
Another thing that holds me back from trumping through the tall grass and bushes, looking for a lost ball, is this:
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| Yikes! |
Chiggers! They are some sort of mites, that bite and insert some stuff to be able to suck your blood, that causes "the insanely itchy welts".
They advise to thoroughly wash your skin when you come back from infested areas (like the golf course) but I guess I forgot to look as high as my thighs ...
It's finally getting better now, after a week, but holy smokes, it itches!
Let's see, what else did we do ...?
Last Sunday we drove part (50 miles) of The Natchez Trace Parkway (also known as the
Natchez Trace or simply 'the Trace'.
This unique National
'Park' in the southeastern United States commemorates the historic Old
Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail. Its central
feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from
Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee.
There are no houses, restaurants or billboards along the way, just beautiful scenery, changing from swamps to pine forests to rolling hills ...
Feeling like BBQ for lunch, we ended up at "Bishop's' in Tupelo.
Besides
their tasty ribs, we tried our first Fried Green Tomatoes and (leave it to
the south to fry almost anything) Fried Pickles!
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| Crunchy and tangy. Not bad! |
There's the little white house he grew up in, the church his family belonged to, a fun little museum, nicely landscaped grounds with several statues and memorial plaques, and even an (his?) outhouse ... all rather nicely done, although we thought $17 a piece to have a look in the house or church was a little overpriced so we just went for the 'outside tour'.
Well, that's about it for now, folks ... other than that we are now under a 'massive heat dome' of sorts and 2 days ago we reached the triple digits!
It's hot, hot, hot and the evenings very often end with a thunderstorm with an impressive thunder and lightening show.
I'll try to get a picture of it one of these days but it's a little scary to stand outside while it's crackling and thundering all around you!
I'll just end with one of the more serene evening views:
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