When I try to hookup the break-away device for the towed car braking system, I discover that the little pull out thingy is missing. I suspect it got lost while in Natchez when the front of the car scraped the road when exiting a parking lot...funny deep curb ate it, I guess.
We stop just outside the park to fill up at $2.59…more expensive than north of us, around Nashville.
We cross the bridge on Hwy 84 over the Mississippi River and get a good view. As I said before, there is a good current flowing and you see several tree parts floating down stream.
We get a awful surprise going into Vidalia Louisiana, just across the bridge. Gas is selling for $2.39. Since we filled up with over 58 gallons, we could have saved $11.60, enough for two DQ Blizzard, and change in return!
A field of cotton
The roads are quite flat and there are lots of cotton fields. We see huge bales of cotton the size of shipping a container. Instead of dead deer on the side of the road, as in Indiana, Tennessee, etc., we now see dead possums.
We decided to cut the trip short and stopped at a Corp of Engineers campground, west of Jasper TX. Very nice place and the fee is reasonable @ $16 for hydro & water hookups, right on the lakefront. Now we need to go to a National Park somewhere and get our Golden Age Pass. That would have dropped the price to $8 per night. Bargoon!
We are right this moment sitting in the car in the Jasper Ramada Inn, mooching on their Wi-Fi. The problems we had yesterday are gone.
We haven't finalized our next leg, but it should be somewhere southwest of Houston.
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