Karen’s Snapshots

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I leave Alexandra, Louisiana head east towards Natchez, Mississippi so that I can start touring the Natchez Trace Parkway. The benefit of the humidity in the south, that makes your clothes stick to you, is that everything is green–what a vast difference from brown California. The drive through Louisiana is through rural countryside and after a slight wrong northerly turn, I get back on the proper expressway going east. I came upon the Frogmore Plantation, but as it’s Sunday and they are closed for tours, so I just took some photos from the roadside. It’s supposed to be a real-working cotton plantation from the 1700s and that would have been neat to see in action. The next break I took was at the Ferriday Bayou Memorial Park because there was a geocache hidden there and that’s always a good excuse to stop and stretch the legs. At the Louisiana/Mississippi border, I stopped and checked out the Vidalia Landing Riverwalk to get my first look at the Mighty Mississippi River. Vidalia, Louisiana has done a nice job in creating this river park, I was really surprised there weren’t more people there, I was almost alone on this Sunday afternoon. I could see the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge, which would carry me across the border into Vidalia’s sister city Natchez; they call this border area “MissLou”. Across the bridge I go and I’m now officially in Natchez, Mississippi. My first sight of the Natchez Visitor Center is actually the back side of it, and is a circular driveway with these magnificent columns. After checking them out, I move inside and explore the displays. I learned that the “vine eating the south” is called Kudzu and can grow a foot overnight and if you sit still long enough, it’ll get you too! I then walked around Bluff Park, looking at the many history markers and viewing the river. I received a Tiger’s Eye gemstone from a lovely southern gentleman, named Armand, that I met in Bluff Park; he said that the Tiger’s Eye brings good luck to travelers–what a wonderful way to start my travels.

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