Date: 28 Jul 2002 |
Day #: 5 |
Miles Today: 642 |
Start: Knoxville, TN |
End: New Orleans, LA |
States Today: Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana |
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Total Mileage: 1,682 |
Total # States Visited: 13 |
Points of Interest: |
I woke around 7:30 am, checked my email and packed up before leaving at 9 am. In just over an hour, I've seen a dead raccoon, dead deer, and dead skunk. Even dead, that skunk smell lingers. There was an accident in the opposite-bound lanes of I-75 about 30 before I crossed into Georgia.
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Accident in the side mirror |
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No road trip through the South is complete without gigantic crosses. |
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The kudzu lets you know you're in Georgia. |
I crossed the TN-GA state line at 11:49, and the GA-AL state line at 12:09. For lunch, I had a subways sandwich that I bought in Tennessee and ate in Alabama. After lunch, I took a short break on the side of the road, where it was 97 F degrees in the shade.
I only passed one accident on I-59 before stopping into Tuscaloosa, Alabama to refuel. I don't need a thermometer to tell me that it's hot and humid. I crossed into Mississippi about ten minutes before 4pm, and Dueling Banjos just happened to be playing on my radio. My odometer turned over 20,000 miles at
Waynesboro, Mississippi.
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This is what driving on highways in the South looks like. |
There has been this one car with New York plates that I've been in an ad hoc convoy with since at least Chattanooga, Tennessee
. Right around Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the driver of the car literally waved goodbye to me before she took the next off-ramp. It's nice to know that you can still find that unspoken bond between fellow travelers.
It's now 87 degrees and 70% humidity, with flashes of thunder and rain. At 5:33pm, I passed a car off the shoulder of the road covered in grass and leaves, like it slid off and was abandoned. A minute later, there was the head of canine animal (coyote?) on the ground. Kind of odd.
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Crossing Lake Pontchartrain |
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