Mississippi

Year of First Visit – 1998
Point of Entry – I-59 near Picayune

I don’t have too many memories of Mississippi. I was only there once, and it was only for a few hours as we drove through the state on our move from Texas to Maryland.

I remember as we crossed the border that my wife told how one of her colleagues at Carver High School had a job as a teenager to dress in a hoop dress and stand along the highway at the border and wave to the incoming tourists.

I remember the state seeming a bit more desolate that I had anticipated. I knew it would be pretty rural, the route we took was especially sparsely populated.

One of my few regrets from when we live in Texas was that we never made it over to Mississippi to see the historic sites at Natchez. If I ever end up back in Mississippi, that’s the place I’d like to go.