Anniston Museum of Natural History in Anniston, Alabama

May 26, 2024 After our walk in historic downtown Anniston, AL on April 23, 2024, we geared up and rode to the Anniston Museum of Natural History. I enjoy small museums and have been pleasantly surprised and impressed by some. The Anniston Museum of Natural History was more midsize than small and it was impressive! […]

Arkansas City, Arkansas Area

April 18, 2024 On April 17, we went to pick up Bruce’s scripts in McGehee, Arkansas. On the way, we made a slight detour to Dermott, Arkansas for BBQ. We stopped in at Dermott BBQ. The BBQ was good, but not as good as Hoots in McGehee. Dermott is a town that has seen better […]

The Louisiana State Cotton Museum

April 26, 2024 We got a nice clear day in Lake Village on April 12. I wanted to go see the Louisiana State Cotton Museum in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Google claimed the museum was open, so we geared up and headed out. The museum is in Louisiana on Hwy 65 across the highway from Lake […]

A Walk Around McGehee and Wiley A. McGehee Memorial Park

April 24, 2024 After our visit to the Japanese Internment Camps Museum in McGehee, we needed to walk around and process the information in the museum. McGehee has two pocket parks that we explored. After walking around for a bit, we geared up and rode towards Hwy 65. Once we were on Hwy 65, we […]

Visiting the Japanese Internment Camps Museum in McGehee, Arkansas

April 22, 2024 With the rain having stopped, we decided to ride the motorcycle to McGehee and tour the Jerome-Rohwer Interpretive Museum and Visitors Center. We decided to eat BBQ in McGehee before touring the museum as they have “Hoots,” which is on the Arkansas BBQ trail. We found Hoots to have outstanding BBQ and […]

Walking Around Historic Vicksburg, Mississippi

April 19, 2024 After our visit to the Old Courthouse Museum, we rode the motorcycle a short distance to the historic downtown area and parallel parked the motorcycle. We walked around enjoying the scenery. We stopped in at the small side garden at Audubon Place. The center of Monroe Street was dedicated to our men […]

Touring the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg, Mississippi

April 18, 2024 On March 30 (Saturday), we rode into Vicksburg to tour the Old Courthouse Museum. It sits at the top of a hill overlooking over the Yazoo Canal and Mississippi River. We parked the motorcycle and started taking pictures. The garden surrounding the old courthouse is beautiful. The dogwood trees, azaleas, and Irises […]

The Salvaged and Displayed Cairo

April 12, 2024 While we were in the Vicksburg National Military Park, we got to tour the salvaged Cairo. It was a gunboat; powered by steams, with a paddle wheel and covered with iron plates. We arrived at the Cairo by riding down the hill to the parking lot at the boat and museum. The […]

The Old Depot Museum in Vicksburg, MS

April 9, 2024 On March 28, after Bruce finished making friends with a visiting cat, we walked around to the front of the Old Depot Museum. We paid to tour the museum and got our Vicksburg Passports stamped after paying. The museum has lots of exhibits of trains, planes, boats and ships models. They also […]

Walk Along the River in Vicksburg, Mississippi

April 6, 2024 After touring the Catfish Row Museum on March 28, we walked towards the Yazoo Canal to get a closer look at the paddle boat on the water. We noticed this sign on the way to the water. The signs with information about the Confederate Army are red and the signs with information […]