BMW K1200LTLouisiana 2004

Day 05 June 01

Today's numbers
Miles
802 total 3 days
Major points
MPG average

48.7mpg
47.7mph
16:50hours
Jonesville, LA
   

The interior of Kirbs Bed and Breakfast
It was a very nice B&B and I can recommend it for you.
The house is with the family for 4 generations.

 
Today was overcast, but it was good. Not too hot.

Some swamps
Crossing to Mississippi
This is the Mississippi River

This is a good site about Mississippi River.

From Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico it has 2300 to 2500 miles (they are not sure about the real size of this river)
 

Vicksburg Battle Field, Mississippi
 
 

Inside the Battle Field you will see the blue signs who mark the Union and the red signs who mark the Confederates.

 
At certain points, the red and blue marks are just few feets away, like this point, were the red ones are just behind that trees.

 
 
 

Vicksburg National Military Park is located in the northeastern portion of the city of Vicksburg, Miss., with three detached units south of the city along Washington Street near the Mississippi River bridges and one in Madison Parish, La.

The park entrance and visitro center are on Clay Street (US 80), within one quarter mile of I-20.

Illinois Memorial
Illinois Memorial
Illinois Memorial

Note the red signs start showing.
 

Sherman Circle
 
 

Military Cemitery
Both the visitor center and teh U.S.S. Cairo Museum are open daily, except December 25.

In December 12, 1862, the Union ironcald gunboat Cairo and several other vessels steamed up the Yazoo River, north of Vicksburg, to destroy Confederate batteries and clear anemy obstructions from the channel.
Suddently, two explosions in quick succession tore gaping holes in the boat's bottom. Within minutes the ironclad lay on the bottom of the river, only the tops of its smokestacs and flagstaffs above the water.

Cairo had become the first vessel in history to be sunk by an alectrically detonated torpedo (today called a mine).

The picture shows the calderas, where the steam were generated.

It's not for her wartime record, however, that Cairo has won a lasting place ini history, but because of what went down with it when it sank in the Yazoo. Here was preserved, in time-capsule form, information about naval construction, naval stores, armament, and the personal gear of the crew who served onboard.

This is the weel.

The vast array of artifacts recoved fromo the gunboat before and after it was salvaged in the early 1960s is on display at the U.S.S. Cairo Museusm adjacente to Vicskburg National Cemetery.

The

This is how it looks like when it was new.
Vicskburg National Cemetery

Vicskburg National Cemetery
Vicskburg National Cemetery

 
Mississippi river.
Confederate battery.

 
Some old churches

 
Natchez Trail
The road here was one of the most beautifull form the whole trip.

 
 

 
 

Emerald Mound.

At this place, the indias build a mound to avoid the floods from Mississippi River.

 
Myrtly Ann going for a ride with Ken.

Some nice old houses in Natches
 
 

 
One of the oldes cemetery in Natches

 
A Confederate site.
 

 

Mississippi River.

The left side is Mississippi, the right side is Louisiana.

 
 
 

 
 

 

St. Mary's Cathedral.

This is the only church build as a cathedral in Mississippi
 

 
 

Going back to Louisiana
 
 

Those barges are very common on Mississipi River. Right now you can see 2 of them. One going North, the other comming South.
 

That was the end of the day.