Still no complaints about the weather as I made my way through the farms and across the highways south back to the I-10 but there wasn’t really a lot to see. I was eating up the miles but I wasn’t really seeing the ‘south’ that I was expecting. No hill billies sitting on their porches, no crazy people walking around, all rather disappointing. :p Lots of expensive cars, nice houses, lots of money. I had chosen a route that wasn’t taking me past any interesting sights. I would check my map for things on the way and wasn’t really seeing much in that regard. I saw a sign for the USS Alabama battleship site down on the coast and that wasn’t too far off the Interstate so that seemed like a good idea. Of course I got there at 4.15pm and was greeted with the sign telling me the last ticket was sold at 4pm. I still got out and had a look, took a few pictures but it would have been a lot nicer to get inside and have a look.

It was time to say goodbye to Florida for good now though and I passed through Alabama for a short while and headed up to Meridian in Mississippi and my 15th state where I was planning on staying in a state park just outside if I didn’t see a nice cheap hotel on the way. Well, I didn’t and it was going to be another cold night. I stayed in the ‘primitive camping’ area and had trouble finding it since it was just an area in the forest. I made up some food and then sat there shivering with no firewood. There were a couple of large logs so I found a few twigs for kindling and did my best Ray Mears impression and with the help of a block of fire starter and my very handy little fan got a nice blaze going but the slight breeze just blew the smoke right over the table and into the car. I didn’t bother with that for long and went to bed.



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