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Close to Nowhere
By Linda Jones Road trip, continued The Friday that Dana and I spent traveling the top half of Mississippi was exhausting, but also lots of fun. The
first detour on our way to Jackson was the town of Randolph, with their
large Amish community. This was my second visit to the Amish and I have
to tell you, the cheese and butter alone are worth the trip! Dana is
more interested in all the horse apparatus and etc., but she nearly
always comes home with Amish-made butter. The
next detour, to Starkville, drove us through some amazing scenery. Most
of the drive was just gorgeous. The rolling hills, pastures surrounded
by trees and small communities are so pretty that you have to wonder
how in the world anyone can throw their trash out onto our beautiful
highways. After a wonderful visit with the
Peeples in Starkville Dana and Mr. Peeples discussed horses at great
length. His “great claim to fame” is that he got to pet Secretariat on
a visit to Kentucky. How exciting that must have been! Lynette
Peeples and I discussed quilts at great length and thoroughly enjoyed
the visit. She had a quilt that I’ve been planning on making -- a
crayon quilt! I have a brand-new box of crayons that is killing my
youngest granddaughter Remy. She cannot understand why I won’t let her
use them; especially as she only has about 500 or so crayons of her own! Crayon quilts are colored with crayons! I think when I get around to that quilt, I will let Remy help me color it. After
leaving the Peeples’ home, we headed to Jackson. Since it’s only about
an inch on my map, I assumed it wasn’t very far. Turns out to be 88
miles! We stopped for lunch at Lake Tiak-o’khata.
Neither of us had been there and we fell in love. Just a gorgeous place
and lunch was wonderful! We’re planning to go back for a weekend visit
with Mere and Remy. It’s mostly straight highway
from Starkville to Jackson, but it was still beautiful countryside. I
again had to remark (actually several times) about litter. That’s one
of my “soapbox” subjects and I won’t go there this week! Our
visit in Jackson was actually quite brief. Dana was picking up some
books at the state department of geology/ecology about fossils. She and the girls, along with assorted friends, have become rabid fossil hunters at several places in north Mississippi. Did
you know that at one time, Mississippi was covered by an ocean? I
didn’t either, but Dana and girls have been bringing home fossillized
shark teeth and other assorted sea creatures. Mississippi is an amazing, beautiful place. A great place to call home! Please don’t litter the highways of our home!
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