Last night we were invited to dinner by the owners of the RV park where we are staying. Art and Bessie Shaw are a couple that we probably won't forget. Art was 20 and Bessie was all of 15 when they were married. On Oct. 3rd, they will celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary.
We had a delicious meal of fried catfish, cole slaw, eggplant puffs, sweet ice tea and we finished off with sweet potato pie. Southern cooking at it's best.
Art and Bessie owned a 20 lane bowling alley in Greenville, MS for many years and thought they wanted to retire. But instead they bought a 40 space RV park 16 years ago and are still running it.
They can tell one funny story after another in their MIssissippi southern drawl. I could listen to them all night. Carol almost did. After dinner Bessie gave Carol her 2nd crochet lesson.
This morning Ruth and Carol dropped us off and they went back to Columbus to shop for the last time.
The first 5 miles were routine, but then we hit the high grass. The highway went from 4 lane divided, to 2 lane undivided. Went from wide shoulder to no shoulder. And when all the traffic is funneled into one lane, there is twice as much traffic. Did I mention the tall grass? Two and three feet grass with foot high fire ant mounds that you couldn't even see. Now add vines that try to trip you at every step. I would rather get tangled up in some life threatening Kudzu.
The trick is to keep walking, that will get you out of most tight spots. The road is always better up ahead. Our reward for all this tough walking was a Nestles Crunch ice cream bar at the Shell station in Reform, MS.
By the way, all churches here are Reform.
Ruth and Carol were waiting for us at the Rock Bottom Baptist Church. Another 12 miles in the book. We found an Alabama motorcycle license plate, an Alabama license plate, a fork in the road and .11 cents. Stay tuned ...
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