Hi All, We are off again! We left Palm Coast,FL on Monday, June 9 at 7:45am. We drove 393 miles to Troy, AL. It was an easy drive and the weather was sunny and warm. We stayed overnight at the Deer Run RV Park. As with all new trips we ran into some small trouble. The hot water heater was not working. Thank goodness for the FMCA travel assistance program that we have. We called them and they sent us up to the Alabama Motor Coach, Inc. in Montgomery,AL.
They were very nice and got right on the problem. It took all day from 9:40am until 3:40pm to find and fix the problem. I have to say that the cost was not as much as I would have thought. Anyway it was fixed and we were off once again. We stayed overnight in Montgomery,Al at the Capital City RV Park. We were off again the next day at 6:30am, headed to Vicksburg,MS. We are at the Magnolia RV Park in Vicksburg. It is very hot and humid here but plan on staying here for several days as there is so much Civil War history here.
We have found out that Mississippi is known at the Magnolia state and there are Magnolia trees everywhere! It was also the 20th state admitted into the union.
There is so much to see here in Vicksburg. For the history buff, there is the 1,800-acre National Military Park, America's most monumented national park, where the fate of a nation was decided in 1863 during the war of Northern agression (as John calls it! ... remember, he is from Alabama). Historic Downtown Vicksburg offers a variety of restaurants and shops. So far we have gone to the Cornor Drug Store that has a huge collection of Civil War artifacts and the Coca-Cola Museum, where the first ever Coca-Cola was bottled in 1894 and to the Old Court House Museum, a National Landmark, which survived thr Civil War with minimal damage. It now houses over 10,000 artifacts from pre-Columbian times to present day. They also have dockside casinos where we stopped but did not try our luck. There are also many antebellum homes that we plan to visit.
Well, that is all for tonight. I will have more later. Hope all is well with everyone. Remember to keep in touch with us this summer. We miss you all.
Candy and Johnny
