Day 3 - Robinsonville, MS to Natchez, MS

We would like to report that we are not now, nor will we be in the future, infested with boll weevils. This is due to a light crop dusting we received shortly after take off this morning. If you look close in the second picture you'll see a yellow plane flying over the road. Very nice. We figure we can return the mosquito repellant we bought too.

Continuing down the road, we decided to stop at the Great River Road State Park. They had a cool tower to climb to get a view from above of the Mississippi Delta region. After the tower, we had a nice break sitting in the shade for awhile. We watched some boats go by and Steve walked out to the sandy area for a closer look. The temp on Steve's bike showed 92 in the shade, so it was a very warm day.

After the park we kept following the River Road route. It was tediously straight, two lane highway for the majority of the way, with little to no view of the river. Nicely done, Mississippi. It was scenic, with lots of fields, etc. but I don't think it should be classified as the River Road. Sally (Steve's gps unit) sent us on a little detour for a short while which did take us up close to the river. The river was really high and there were lots of trees that were flooded up to their first set of limbs. It was really odd looking at all those trees under water.

Back on the main route, we stopped in Vicksburg for lunch at a Sonic drive-in. The bank sign in town said it was 99 degrees. Y'all, it is HOT in Mississippi! And what were we thinking picking a drive-in for lunch when there is no indoor seating? We did sit in the shade, and nice cold drinks did cool us down, but after we ate we stopped at a gas station/convenience store for some water and we sucked up some of their a/c before we got back on the road.

We had about 80 more miles to Natchez and Steve had read about the Windsor Ruins, which was a manor house that burnt down in the 1800's. We thought we'd stop if we saw the sign for it. We didn't have much to go on except there was supposed to be a sign across from an Exxon station in Port Gibson. After driving by an Exxon station and not seeing an obvious sign, we turned and went back to check it out. Found a sign saying "Windsor Battle Tour" so we followed that. This took us on the best road of the day! It was non-stop curves winding through heavily wooded scenery. It was a full 20 degrees cooler and felt so good. We didn't see any more signs for Windsor, but kept following the road anyway because it was so much fun. Finally we came upon a sign and a gravel drive. We drove back in and there the ruins were, sitting back off the road in a quiet grove of trees. We were the only people there and it was neat to be there with these majestic ruins with only the sounds of nature around us. Well worth the side trip :)

We followed a little more of the curvy fun road and then Sally re-routed us to get back on our main route to Natchez. We had about 30 miles to go and it started to rain lightly. We drove for quite a bit without rain gear because it was refreshing and not coming down too heavily. After a bit though, we really started to get wet from the road spray and the temps had dropped down to 72, so were were getting chilly. We pulled over and put our gear on to make it the rest of the way in to Natchez. We found our hotel and got settled around 7:30pm. Grabbed some dinner and now we're back for the night.

Tomorrow starts the Natchez Trace Parkway and the forecast is calling for scattered showers throughout our entire day. We'll see how it goes....

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