Back Roads!

NOCCALUIA!

Along the Road

Georgia on your mind

Georgia is home of the greatest baseball team the Atlanta Braves!
Georgia is nations number one producer of 3 Ps – peanuts, pecans, peaches.
Coca-Cola was invented in May 1866 by Dr John S Pemberton in Atlanta. It was first sold at a soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta and then for many years in my Grandfather’s store called the Bradley drug store in Adairsville in 1940’s and 1950’s.
Georiga was birthplace for Jackie Robinson, Burt Reynolds, Martin Luther King, Doc Holliday, Ty Cobb, & Ray Charles.
And the American bank robber Pretty boy Floyd from Adairsville GA. Another resident of Adairsville is the greatest baseball manager of all time Bobby Cox.

WHAT HAPPEN TO THE BOX?

As soon as we get home we are writting a letter to Jack to tell him the've lost his box in Alabama

Quack Quack

Could this be the recorded sound? ............No sorry

Knighthood

I hereby dub you Sir Jonathan Kyle from the land of America and master of the Passat

Legend of Princess Noccalula

According to legend, Princess Noccalula was the beautiful daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief and was deeply in love with a brave from her own tribe. Despite her wishes to marry this young warrior, she was promised by her father to a Creek Indian chief who had more bounty to offer for her hand. Her lover was banished from the tribe, and Noccalula was forced to ready herself for the arranged marriage. On the day of the wedding she allowed herself to be arrayed in ceremonial attire and obediently but reluctantly attended the marriage feast. In the midst of the merrymaking, Noccalula quietly slipped away and wandered through the forests of her childhood, coming eventually to the beautiful waterfall near her tribal home. Rather than subject herself to a loveless marriage, she jumped from the precipice near the falls and ended her life on the rocks below.

Things go better

Nothing symbolizes the south more than a bottle of coke

PAPA JOHNS

BETTER INGREDIENTS! BETTER PIZZA! PAPA JOHNS!

We stopped at one thinking it was a restaurant version and they had by the slice, but they did not. :(

Sweet Home Alabama

Two states so far in one day!!
Heart of Dixie
Home of Hank Williams (1923-1953) father of country music

Jimmie Rodgers

Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) was the father of Blues who helped save the South in a time of poverty and despair in Meridian Mississippi
At this point Kyle is extremely impressed with the friendly people of the south. Everyone we have talked to has been very nice and helpful. We were entering the town of Meridian and stopped on the side of the road looking at the map when a man came out of his work place and over to our car to provide assistance and directions.

Movie Anyone?

Still waiting for any takers for seeing a movie!

Mississippi Visitor Center

We finally found a visitor center open and had the nicest lady who was very helpful.

This was in beautiful old south town of Hattiesburg where my late Great Aunt Sue lived. Aunt Sue was one of the kindest, gentle, & caring women I’ve ever known. As we traveled down the road we spent many miles telling stories about my Aunt Sue. One of those stories was when Susan & I were about 8-10 years old and visiting we went crabbing at the dock while Aunt Sue was cooking. We caught a bucket crabs and brought them back to the house. I had the idea that we needed to transfer the crabs into a clean bucket of water (not the best thing to do for several reasons). When I went to pickup one of the crabs he latched onto my thumb, at that point I let out a yell and did a half revolution of my arm over to an old tree stump splattering the crab into 1000 pieces and barely missing Susan.

The State Mississippi!!

One I, two S’ one I, two S’, one I, two P’s, and one I

Birth Place of the King of Rock n Roll, Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977
And the birth place of the Blues

Looking for Alligators in the Louisiana Bayou

This morning we went out early to the swamp in Louisiana to try to find some hungry Alligators. Sadly there were none to be seen. They must have all left before we arrived there.

Monday Night at the Sprague's

After a long day’s drive on Monday from Columbus Texas to Mandeville Louisiana we arrived at Donna & Mike Sprague's home. Donna & Mike are our good friends from when we lived in Maryland. We have had several wonderful vacations together over the years and it was really nice to visit with them again plus they were exceptional hosts. Donna had fixed us a wonderful meal of shrimp etouffe, jambalaya, salad, bread, watermelon, chocolate chip cookies - I was so full, it was hard to leave the next day.