Last night in Bossier City (pronounced Bo-szer), we stayed beside this nice river. The point of the picture though isn't the river, it's the railroad bridge. Just before 11 p.m. (after I was sleeping), a friggin' loud TOOT, TOOT, TOOT!!! And then listening to the engines go over the bridge was not the quietest thing in the world. Fortunately we didn't hear them often in the night.
Last night we were in Louisiana, and tonight we're in Mississippi, after a 5-hour drive. I've noticed that 10 miles on one side of the state line, most of the car licence plates say "Louisiana". 10 miles the other side of the state line, most car licence plates say "Mississippi". That happens everywhere! Why is that? Did the others just disappear? Hmmmm.
We've crossed back into the "East", so to speak - east of the Mississippi River. Of course the river is the state line between the two.
We stopped at the Mississippi Welcome Center (sp:( ) which was a very nice spot overlooking the river.
I took this picture of the sign showing the highway to Memphis. We were on that highway last year when we went from Biloxi to Memphis. Our paths are criss-crossing.
So tonight we're near Meridian, Mississippi. The name Meridian is deemed to be synonymous with "junction" where many trains intersected in times gone by. It was 18C when we got here. Yippee! It's funny that Texas was the coldest area we were through.
We have one more day of driving then we'll take a couple days off. By the way, the tire has held up, so the sealant seems to have done the trick.
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