On 1/19 we drove from Columbia, SC to Jackson, MS. Nothing to report on that drive except a long day.
But on 1/20, based on my brother's recommendation, we drove the Natchez Trace Parkway from Jackson to Natchez. That is one really pretty road very similar to the Blue Ridge Parkway, but through semi-swamp with lots of Spanish moss hanging down from the Live Oaks. It follows the original Natchez Trace which was a wilderness road back in the 1800's. There are a few short walking trails, but mostly just a really pretty drive. There are also a couple of Indian burial mounds right along side the road. I had heard about Indian mounds up in OH and IL but I didn't know they were also down in MS. I knew they were big, but when you're standing there and thinking about piling up all that dirt by hand and with stoneage tools they become really big.
We hit I-10 in Baton Rouge and took that all the way to San Antonio. The 20 mile-long bridge in LA is cool and Houson driving is insane. The rush-hour must be incredible, hopefully I will never see that.
We have spent the last few days in San Antonio with my brother and his wife. We haven't really done much and it's been a nice rest. We did go up to Austin to visit my niece & meet the newest members of the family, Hamilton (3 yrs) & Benjimin (2 1/2 months). We all headed off for dinner at a place called The Salt Lick for some real Texas Bar-B-Que. It was great...you could get a heapn' helpn' of all the saturated fat you should have in a month for just $12.
Tomorrow we head off to west TX for a day and on to Taos and our first western skiing ever.
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