Tag: Natchez

• Out On Highway 61

  You leave todays newspaper unread on the table next to your front door.  A dozen flies buzz around the hole in your window screen next to the formica table in your kitchen.  They get in despite the wad of toilet paper you use to plug the hole. You walk home from a bar.  You weren’t…

  patrickjegan

  January 4, 2016

  Blogging, Everyday Events, Fables & Folklore, History, Melancholy Thoughts, Real Personal History, The RV Life, The South, Travels, Uncategorized

  blues, Blues Highway, Bob Dylan, cotton fields, crossroads, delta blues, Highway 61, Mississippi River, Monroe LA, Natchez, R & B, Robert Johnson, rock and roll, southern poverty, Vicksburg MS, Vidalia LA

• To Let: Site # 143/ A Farewell To The Sunshine State

  [As I write this post, Site #143 is occupied] On December 30, 2015, around noon, the radio in our red Ford Escape will begin to emit static.  It will crackle and hiss as my favorite country music station fades in strength.  Fort Myers will be receding, falling away into the south…into the muggy soupy haze.…

  patrickjegan

  December 27, 2015

  Blogging, Friendship, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, Nature, Objects of Beauty, Real Personal History, seniors, The RV Life, The sea, The South, Travels

  Big Cypress, cafes, Dallas, Everglades, Fort Myers, malls, Monroe LA, Natchez, royal palms, RV parks Florida, saguaro, sharecropper shacks, Shreveport LA, Vicksburg