Thursday-Friday, May 23, 24
62 this beautiful morning as we say good-bye to Anita, Kevin and Cody and begin the Trek back to Texas. This is pretty much just driving, gas and sleeping. Leaving from southern WV makes the trip a bit shorter than usual and we make it the whole way to Mississippi with 12 hours of driving. We stop at a Walmart in Newton a bit shy of Jackson.
Lots of agriculture across Mississippi and Louisiana and the corn here is already 4' high, while it was just a few inches in PA.
We learn random things from Google as we pass the time. For example: Vultures don't circle dead things - when they are circling, they are looking for the next meal. The red-headed turkey vultures have a great sense of smell and locate things well. Their black-headed cousins have to hunt by sight (or follow their cousins).
Edamame is immature green soy beans. Soy beans are a big crop in the US.
Etc.
We stop at Toup' s Kajun Kitchen in Leesville, Louisiana for our traditional shrimp poor boy. It was voted #4 of the best restaurants in LA according to America's Best Restaurants. It has been around since 1947 so must be doing something right! Poorboys are one thing they got right!
We've taken smaller roads through some of Mississippi and Louisiana which is much more enjoyable than I10 - shorter mileage-wise and just a tad longer time-wise.
We don't have bad traffic until we are about an hour from home and back on major highway. Arrive around 4:00. There have been storms while we were away, but things don't look too bad - except for weeds in the flower beds!
Always nice to come home.
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