• Jun. 3, 2006
Vacation
We just got back from a short vacation to Mississippi. My mom lives there and I grew up there. We had a good trip. One day we went down the Natchez Trace to Rocky Springs. Rocky Springs was a favorite spot to go when I was a child. The kids liked it but it rained on our picnic. Rocky springs used to be a town. All that is left is the old church and grave yard. The grave yard is full of old cedar trees with lots of gray hanging moss,very creepy. The graves all date back to the 1800's. The best part is the creek. It's not very deep. It's cool and clear and just right for wading. The kids could have stayed there all day. We have promised to go there again on our next trip.
After we left Rocky Springs we went on down to Port Gibson and then out to the middle of nowhere to the ruins of Windsor. Windsor was a big mansion built with cotton money in 1861. It survived the Civil War but was burned down in 1890 by some one careless with a cigarette. All that is left of it are the columns and some iron work. It looks very impressive out there in the middle of nothing.
When I was a kid we used to go on trips like that all the time. My mom liked to explore. I never realized then that she had a pretty good idea where she was going. I always felt like we were going to be lost in the back woods of Mississippi and never get home again. Sometimes we would go down gravel or dirt roads that were only wide enough for one car. I was really nervous on those. I just knew we were going to get stuck.
