Deflection

I did not take in any history today, but it was a nice sunny and a little cold. The high was 63 degrees.

Trace State Park to Grenada Lake, about 80 miles apart, although they are both manmade lakes, Grenada has a dam that is over a mile long. Longer than the dams in Iowa. When I got to the US Army Crop of Engineers campground, I had to registrar on line, and, for the first time getting close to sunset, it took my extra time. Just after I turned 62, I was going into a National Park, and the attendant had me buy a lifetime senior citizen card, and it has paid off many times, like this evening the site only cost me $12.50 from a fee of $24. When it comes to getting through the lines at federal facilities, I just walk straight through. These cards are also available to anyone that is, or has, served in the military.

I have to type about the highway safety, again. This non-major highways, since they are label as state highways on the map. It looks the highways have a one-foot paved shoulder, and then they have a one to two-soil shoulder, but most of the time, this soil shoulder are lower then the surface of the pavement. In the fills, the fore slopes are grade with a constant slope that is hard to determine how steep that they are, but they could be a 1:1 slope that is 45 degrees, and some of these filled are deep, like thirty feet. In some cases, they seem to be steep than a 1:1 slope. This grade has been there so long that trees are going in the fore slopes. I mean WOW. If anyone is forced off of the highway, it is not a good situation at all. However, regarding areas of reconstruction, like bridges replacements, they using today’s standards.

As for tomorrow, it is off for Vicksburg, and hopefully I will find highways with better safety features.