The Trip South

 10 July 1999 - The First Day

My traveling companions on this trip. When God Calls Your Name - Lucado Games of State - Clancy Wobegon Boy - Keillor Pelican Brief - Grisham The Emperor's General - Web Our Sacred Honor - Bennett Children of God - Russell The Horse Whisperer - Evans

H. Beam Piper wrote that the fictional characters in his "paratime" series always saw the same patterns in the clouds no matter which time continuum they were in. With me, I notice they are different on every part of the globe. It has become my reality check.

This is a picture of mathers and xan. They met on the internet and she came to visit. A few months ago. He helped me patch some things together a while back and we have been friends ever since.
These were floating over southern Ohio in the afternoon.
This is how Ohio looks from Kentucky
Ron. We met in a cast cutting room decades ago. He had the saw. Neither time nor distance can weaken our friendship. (I am still learning how to take digital pictures at night.)

 11 July 1999 - Day Two

The day started much earlier. This was taken in southern Kentucky.
A view of some of the other folks I am traveling with today. Taken from a weigh station in Tennessee.
The Welcome Center outside of Huntsville Alabama.
On down the road in Mississippi This was interesting because I could see the rain splattering in small clumps on the road ahead of me. I would be in the rain for a mile and then have no rain for another mile or two. Then it would repeat again. It went on this way for a couple of hours.
A view of the tress in northern Louisiana.
It sure looks different than everywhere else I have been on this trip.

I think these are trees.

Don't try this at home. I am a trained professional. This was Sunday and there was almost as much traffic as rush hour at home. I had to reload the camera just before this shot. It is good to know my coordination is still pretty good.
Made it after a twelve hour run. Not bad.

I like the informality here. No hotel ever did it better.