On November 17th we drove 195 miles from Memphis TN to Jackson Mississippi. The Mississippi capitol would be our 34th capitol we visited. On the 17th we arrived at Le Fleur's Bluff State Park & Golf Course campground at 1 in the afternoon. We decided to finish our school day and go see the capitol and Jackson the next day. The campground was very nice. It’s right near downtown, only 4 miles away, but you feel like you’re way out in the woods. You take a 1 mile drive off the main road on a winding road around several small lakes. There are high trees at every campsite and most back up right to the lake. We really liked it. Kathleen had plenty of long roads to walk on although she feels a little nervous being in the trees where it’s not always easy to see people coming from a distance away. We had W-E hookups for only $16 a night.
On the 18th we went to see the capitol and downtown after finishing another school day. We are on day 53 of 170 days of school on this 122nd day of the trip. With the trip being planned at 375 days we should be on about school day 60 to stay on an every other day pace in order to finish on time. We’ve decided to do a school day Monday thru Friday from 9-12:30 to help the boys and Rachel stay on track. We had been just doing school on the days we were traveling but that has not been enough and it spreads their days out too much so the M-F plan should be much better.
Back to the capitol now, we went downtown the whole 6 miles we were from the capitol and found free parking right next to it. We had to do another self tour because they only give tours to groups of 10 or more. We started on the top floor and worked our way down. It was a very pretty capitol in the traditional style of most capitols. The Senate and House Chambers had been restored a few years ago and were impressive. Their library and Supreme Court rooms weren’t impressive but are not used anymore anyway. They also had a big beautiful rotunda some 180 feet high. The grounds still had bright green grass cut well with big shade trees. All in all it was a very nice capitol. Better than that though was their Old Capitol that was a few blocks away and now a museum. We walked to it through downtown Jackson, which allowed us to see a lot more, including the Governor’s Mansion. The Old Capitol was really well restored and had a lot of Mississippi history throughout. We really enjoyed that. After our time downtown we went out to eat at Outback and then went back to the RV.
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