May 24

Ruth took us to the starting point early this morning. As soon as we started walking, John and I were ambushed by swarming gnats. We were walking by some backwater, next to a field with tall grass at the edge. The gnats didn't bite, but there must have been hundreds of them and they sure are a nuisance. After a bit, we left all that behind and entered Greenville, Mississippi.

We are on Highway 82 which travels through Greenville, if fact, it goes all the way to Brunswick, Georgia, our destination. Greenville is on the MIssissippi River and is a poor Mississippi delta town, surrounded by farmland.

We stopped at a McDonald's to get some refreshments, ice cream cone for John and a Coke for me, which I soon switched to sweet tea. A group of older people were there eating breakfast and we soon got into a conversation with them. They were very impressed by what we had done and John kept dropping hints about a contribution, which fell on deaf ears. One fellow did ask a rhetorical question, "Is your intellect as bright as your orange t-shirts?". That is a difficult question to answer. Let's just say that some days are bright orange and some days are not so bright.

On we walked as some National Guard solders passed by in a short convoy. Casper said they have been down here for weeks, patrolling the levee and looking for leaks. Thanks Arkansas and Mississippi National Guard for keeping us safe.

We are almost to Leland, Mississippi. We found a 7mm socket, $2.17 in coins (this makes up for some lean days) and 2 forks in the road, we didn't know which one to take, so we took the one less used. Stay tuned ....