Hello Steve
Domestic fowl are excluded, I know the road runners are a day or so off
but what about
Mississippi Kites and the hooters, especially the size 34 ones ;-) ?
Kind regards
Ed
BJ8 Healeys wrote:
> 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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