[Healeys] On the Road to Conclave (Day 3)

BJ8 Healeys sbyers at ec.rr.com
Tue Jun 24 17:38:04 MDT 2008


Hello, Healeyphiles -

Another 330 miles on the Byers and Haywood clocks today, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to El Dorado, Arkansas.  My Spanish-speaking friends would mis-pronounce the name of our stop for the night.  The locals call it "El Do-Ray-Do" or sometimes "Elderader".  

We have had three full days of bright blue skies and sunshine, and for the first thousand miles since leaving home on Sunday it has been top-down all the way.  However, there is an Elderader storm going on outside at the moment.   Maybe it will cool things down a bit and be gone by tomorrow morning.

Today was US 82 all the way.  It was a dream, too.  In Mississippi, it's all four-lane from border to border and could be an interstate except that there was almost no traffic, and no trucks.  The road passes through some beautiful countryside and farm lands.  It was back to two-lane in Arkansas, but a nice road even if it is straight and flat.

Today's observations:  
The Missisippi armadillos have no better success at crossing the roads as the Georgia deer or the North Carolina possums.

Kudzu grows very well in Dixie.

Mississippi must be the soybean capital of the world.

Tennessee Williams should have been called "Mississippi Williams" since he was born in Columbus.  Or maybe he should have been called "Miss. Williams" (or MS. Williams).

Indianola, MS is the birthplace of B.B. King.  It is also the final resting place of  a red Austin (America?  Chummy?  Nubby?  Bubba?) on a pole.

Linden, MS is the birthplace of Kermit the Frog (I thought he had more of a northern accent), and the home of the Blues museum.

Top-down driving this time of year is great because you get to smell the aroma of mimosas in bloom.  It can also be pretty bad when a truckload of chickens passes you.  Man, those chickens can stink!

People in Arkansas who live by the Mississippi River have some world class front yards.

See you tomorrow!

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA National Delegate
Havelock, NC  USA


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