Category: Journal
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Day Eighteen
The silence is deafening. This is how I felt at about 3:00 today setting in my truck in the packing lot of Melrose National Historical Park. As the handout states, “a cotton kingdom estate.” Just imagine a 132-acre plantation with a labor force of 28 people. (The owners, the McMurrens, had five plantation with 1,000…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Happy Thanksgiving
I am still next to Lake Bruin, and I can sit at the table in the trailer and look across the lake through the cypress trees with moss hanging from their branches. This has been a nice site to spend a few days. I guess that I am here at the correct time. I spent…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Fourteenth Day
Today was a frustrating day. I first go to the Vicksburg Visitors Center, and I find that it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. I am finding that the videos in visitor center really sent the mood for the tour in these parks and they are educational giving everyone something to look for in the…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Twelfth Day
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.…
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Journal – Snowbird – Eleventh Day
It was a nice day today with the high of 55 degrees, but it is going to 32 degrees tonight, and there is a chill in the air of the trailer tonight. I did not take in any history today, but I got my truck serviced. As for this trip, keeping my truck in good…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Tenth Day
This morning I moved from a state park on the east side of Tupelo to the west side, although it was windy and my trailer was getting pushed around. So, regarding the move, I went from zero bars of internet reception to three, so I am typing now. After lunch, I went Parkway Visitor Center…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Ninth Day
First, I pulled into a campground just before dark that has little to no internet signal, so I am typing from my I Pad. As for me, it has been kind of a slow day. This afternoon I went through the interpretative canter for Brice Crossing Battlefield. It was toward the end of the war,…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Eight Day
I did a lot of driving, but it was kind of uneventful day, and the weather did not help, since it was warm, but it was drizzling most of the time and it did not show up on the radar. During the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, I studied their journey closely.…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Seventh Day
Today, was really a nice day for November, but maybe the days are all like this down here. Partly sunny, windy at times, and the temperature high was 76 degrees. Today, I reviewed the Shiloh Battlefield and the city of Corinth. What really struck me was the number of dead soldiers. Did they really have…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Sixth Day
It was a nice day here with the temperature at 72 degrees and little to no winds, so it is short sleeve weather, again. Since I had a nice campsite, I thought that I should spend another day there, but the cold weather is coming south, so I drove to the Shiloh Battlefield Site this…
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