2011 Trip across the US
2012 Trip across the US
2014 Trip across the US
2015 Trip to Alaska
2015-16 Southwest Trip
2016 New England Trip
2016 - 17 Southwest Trip
2017 - 2018 Trip to Pick Up A New Escape Trailer & More
2018 - 19 Trip to Winnipeg & the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
2019 - 2020 Trip to the Southwest
2021 - 2022 Trip to the Southwest
2022 - 2023 Trip to the Hungry Mother Rally
2023 - 2024 Trip to the Southwest
2024-25 Trip to the Southeast
Day 18, Wednesday, November 5, 2025, - George P Cossar State Park, Oakland, MS, Day 2 - 0 Miles, 1359.4 Miles for the Trip
A warm night, only going down to 52°F, and 60°F for my morning walk. I think it is time to clean up my sprouting beard. Got some nasty looks & "what do you need" from the workers hanging out in front of the office. I need a haircut, so I'll probably get one & a beard trim in Natchez.
I finished Ngaio Marsh's Light Thickens, # 32 in the Alleny series & # 34, the last one Money in the Morgue is on hold with a 2 week wait (evidently, #33, Still Unsolved is not available as a Kindle or library book) so I started a non Ngaio Marsh book for the first time in what feels like weeks - John Scalzi's 3 Days, 9 Months 27 Years. I usually don't read short stories, but I am a sucker for time travel books.
By noon it was up to 65°F so I sat outside and read. While the AT&T internet checks out as fairly fast at 72Mbps down, it is very erratic. I seem to remember the problem the last time I was in this part of Mississippi. Fast one second & stopped the next. Verizon has stayed connected as far as internet radio is concerned, but AT&T would drop the station regularly. I'll have to take that back - Verizon also dropped my internet radio station at least once this afternoon.
I received an email & phone call from the La Paz County park. My site for December & January has been changed from site E in the overflow area where I was in 2023-24 to site 10. I liked the overflow sites because they didn't charge for electricity and were larger than most of the standard sites. It appears that site 10 does have a view of the river which is nice, but is metered, so I'll be paying for electricity. I can't tell the size from the site map or looking at it in Google Earth, but they said it will fit my trailer. Evidently the overflow sites have been converted to "luxury sites", and even though my reservation says Site E, the site no longer exists and the on line version of my reservation now shows site 010. Why they let me reserve Site E (over the phone, not on line) is a mystery but it is what it is.
While I didn't use them, there are 3 showers in the bathroom, one open enough that it might be described as disabled. Although shower head is at the same height as the others, it is possible to fit a wheelchair in the stall. A standard volume shower head with 2 handle adjustable water. A small drying area in the non disabled showers that includes a bench and a couple of hooks. The shower head aims at the drying area - it is going to get wet since there is no shower curtain. No idea on the amount of hot water, but the building still holds the cold from last night - much colder than the 69F outside temperature at 2:30. Overall, a C- at best.
I would give the same score to the park as a whole. "Ridden hard and put up wet" would describe the park. Very rough roads, poorly marked roads & sites that are not level, picnic tables a long way from the site. No outside lighting for the bathrooms - the park is completely dark at night. While there is a pair of outside lights next to the door, they are on a switch with a sign saying "turn off lights" and they do. I needed a flashlight to find the building. It is fine if your don't mind worn (and I usually don't) and are looking for a quiet, mostly empty campground, but it is my first time here, and not my favorite park of the trip, at least so far.
Dinner was a Scott & Jon's Shrimp Alfredo bowl.
Until Tomorrow -
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