Day 27: Shreveport, LA to Montgomery, AL
We are down to our last few days of driving before home in the Keys. And we about have this RV'ing thing down... Mom knows what she is going to wear the night before, we decide on breakfast, and get as much done to make the morning easy and get on the road. We left the Tall Pines RV Park in Shreveport and drove on I-20 across Louisiana entering Mississippi... driving through bayou country and trees covered with Spanish moss. And of course at this point, we had to cross the mighty Mississippi River. All through our drive in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama we crossed very large, slow moving, muddy rivers... many of them named after Indians or the State they are in.
In Jackson, Mississippi (can you tell I love typing Mississippi) there was a major accident on the interstate at lunch hour and the traffic was diverted to a four lane city road. It took just over an hour to get through Jackson and back on the Interstate... so we lost precious driving time. We continued through Mississippi on I-20 and when we crossed the border in to Alabama near Cuba, we got on Hwy 80 towards Montgomery. We also crossed the Tennessee Tom Bigbee Waterway which takes barges and boats all the way from Mobile (in the Gulf) north to Tennessee via locks, rivers and reservoirs. It's a much safer route for boats then taking the Mississippi River with all the barges.
We are down to our last few days of driving before home in the Keys. And we about have this RV'ing thing down... Mom knows what she is going to wear the night before, we decide on breakfast, and get as much done to make the morning easy and get on the road. We left the Tall Pines RV Park in Shreveport and drove on I-20 across Louisiana entering Mississippi... driving through bayou country and trees covered with Spanish moss. And of course at this point, we had to cross the mighty Mississippi River. All through our drive in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama we crossed very large, slow moving, muddy rivers... many of them named after Indians or the State they are in.
In Jackson, Mississippi (can you tell I love typing Mississippi) there was a major accident on the interstate at lunch hour and the traffic was diverted to a four lane city road. It took just over an hour to get through Jackson and back on the Interstate... so we lost precious driving time. We continued through Mississippi on I-20 and when we crossed the border in to Alabama near Cuba, we got on Hwy 80 towards Montgomery. We also crossed the Tennessee Tom Bigbee Waterway which takes barges and boats all the way from Mobile (in the Gulf) north to Tennessee via locks, rivers and reservoirs. It's a much safer route for boats then taking the Mississippi River with all the barges.
The drive on Highway 80 was interesting... it was marked with acres of rolling hills and ponds that had once been beautiful plantations. Now many of the homes deserted or with run down pre-fab homes built on them. Some of the little towns thriving from the logging or cardboard and container industry... especially Demopolis. And then on to Selma, the location of the three 1965 Civil Rights Movement marches to Montgomery.
Sunset was upon us and we drove the last hour to about 10 miles south of Montgomery to a little town called Hope Hull. We stayed at the Montgomery South RV Park... it was convenient, new with no shade trees or privacy, and a little too close to the Interstate for us. We drove 473 miles today and would have made it a little farther if we had not had to deal with the accident and delay in Jackson.
Photos: Riley helping Cora write "the KeyZRV Blog"; Crossing the Mississippi River
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