ON THE ROAD AGAIN IN VICKSBURG, MS ~ 2013

When we leave Northern Michigan each year our direction is determined by weather.  Too much snow or ice in one part of the country, we go the other way.  This year, the year of "Dion the Storm" we had little choice but to just roll south and duke it out with one of the worst, back to back, weather fronts in many years.

Finally, after four days we've left the storms behind and somehow landed in Vicksburg, MS again this year. It's still cold here by southern standards but a far cry from the northern norm.

One hundred and fifty years have passed  since May 1863. Motels and fast food joints abound, or litter, depending on your perspective, the area of encampment and battle that so profoundly change the course of the War Between the States.

                                    MEMORIALS FROM THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG.

Canon keeping the riff-raff at bay.