Day 7 - June 18

Back by popular demand.... SWD! While having breakfast this morning in Meridian, the news was on and it gave us the opportunity to pick up a few new words. For brevity's sake we'll just feature two this evening. The first is "skew" and the other "bobble". In order to clarify lets use both words in a single sentence.... "Now that summer is here, all the kids will be attending bobble skew at the Baptist church."

We left Meridian, AL this morning and headed west. While gassing up we met a guy who suggested we travel some secondary two lanes on our way to the Natchez Trace. The roads turned out to be really enjoyable; not difficult, just some nice roads through some local towns. We entered the Trace just past Jackson, MS.

The Natchez Trace is a beautiful road with a 50 mph speed limit. Our goal was to arrive at the Country Store Restaurant in Lorman, MS when it was open. When we arrived, we were the first patrons of the day and had to wait for the food to be set out, but the food was good and worth the wait. I have included a couple of pictures of Charlie at the place.

From the restaurant we rode to Natchez and got directions to New Orleans. We made it as far as Hammond before the rain started to threaten. We pulled into a Best Western and it rained for a short while but then cleared up. This gave us the opportunity to do our laundry.... Lord how I hate laundromats!... The noise.... the ankle biters.... the unhappy patrons.

In any case, we're back at the motel now and a thunder storm is in progress.... the TV has lost it's satellite and Charlie is moping because we can't watch "Dog the Bounty Hunter".

We don't have today's mileage (because neither of us wants to go out in the rain to look at the odometer), but distance wise it's been a relatively short day.

We're probably an hour north of New Orleans right now, so part of tomorrow we'll spend checking out the city a little.