January 12, 2008

• Hey, y'all...
  Coming to you tonight via the miracle of Wi-fi from a hotel in Mobile, Ala. We drove for about 12 hours today, and had a really lovely drive through a sunny, clear day down through Arkansas on Hwy. 65, into Louisiana, then over the Mississippi River bridge at Tallulah, La., to Vicksburg, Jackson, Hattiesburg, then down to Mobile.
  Some of the neatest parts of the day included: a "Door Gallery" in Lake Providence, La., in the spot where a burned-out store once stood...a collection of old motel doors leaning against a brick wall, all carefully covered in paintings by local artists; seeing fields of winter wheat growing in the Arkansas Delta, glowing almost too green to be real in the January sun; an oxbow lake, formed by a loop in the Mississippi, with cypress knees poking up from the silvery water; skeletons of pecan trees in companionable groves, next to bare, rowed-up fields; delicious sandwiches on home-made bread - and apple fritters - in a little Mennonite cafe; driving across the Mighty Mississippi on the bridge at Vicksburg, and then onto the good dirt of the state I'll always call "home" in many ways; and talking, talking, talking with my sweetheart in a wonderful, uninterrupted time together.
  On to Sarasota tomorrow - about another 10 hours! Tomorrow will be interstate, flat, orange groves, live oaks, and eventually palm trees. But big, gorgeous skies, and at the end of the day, lots of our dear ones!
  God bless you and all you love tonight, my friends.
  

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